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Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy

19th May 202221st May 2022  Julia Bagguley

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan, uses paintings, drawings and sketchbooks to shine a light on the woman behind the muse, the business manager and companion behind the model.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Gustave Courbet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Joanna Hiffernan, John Everett Millais, Julia Bagguley, painting, Royal Academy, Women in the Arts

Bloody Barbarella by Molly Williams

11th January 202211th January 2022  Molly Williams

Angry at the sexual harassment women experience, Molly Williams began to paint something disturbing but powerful. The resulting painting, Bloody Barbarella, was her way of speaking back and subverting the violence of misogyny.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: #MeToo, art, Barbarella, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Feminism, Jane Fonda, Molly Williams, painting, sexual harassment, Valley of the Dolls

Rosanne Robertson’s Subterrane at Maximillian William

20th December 202128th December 2021  Catherine Howe

Rosanne Robertson’s Subterrane uses both the ruggedness and fluidity of the West Cornish coastline to celebrate the beauty of queer bodies and gender non-conformity, writes Catherine Howe.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, atomatism, Catherine Howe, Cornwall, drawing, Film, Ithell Colquhon, LGBTQ+, LGBTQIA+, Maximillian William, painting, Queer Art, queer identities, Rosanne Robertson, sculpture, Sea, Subterrane, Surrealism, trans identities, water

The Rebel Within Reclaims Magic: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021

29th November 2021  Emily Walters

Artist Yinka Shonibare curates a vibrant, magical and moving Summer Exhibition, one where a multiplicity of voices and artistic perspectives speak to the pain and progress of both past and present, writes Emily Walters.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Bill Traylor, Black Obsidian Sound System, Bob and Roberta Smith, craft, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Humphrey Ocean, Mali Morris, Ofunne Azinge, painting, Pelin Pelin, Raúl de Nieves, Royal Academy, sculpture, sound installations, Summer Exhibition, Sylvie Franquet, Tracey Emin, Yinka Shonibare

Decorating Dissidence in conversation: Sophie Taeuber-Arp and ‘movement in design’

13th October 202114th October 2021  Decorating Dissidence

Jade French, Suzanna Petot and Lottie Whalen of the interdisciplinary collective, Decorating Dissidence, discuss the recent Sophie Taeuber-Arp exhibition at Tate Modern, how dance informed Taeuber-Arp’s work and practise, and why she is relevant for us today.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, InterviewsTagged: applied arts, Dada, Decorating Dissidence, Design, drawing, embroidery, Jade French, Laban, Lottie Whalen, painting, sculpture, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Suzanna Petot, Take Dada Seriously, Tate, Tate Modern

A Home of the Muses by Iona Glen

19th August 202125th August 2021  Iona Glen

Iona Glen reflects on Celia Paul’s memoir, Self Portrait, the significance of the British Museum and Bloomsbury to the artist’s work, and her subversive vanquishing of “muse-dom” and patriarchal conventions through painting.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, BooksTagged: Artist, British Museum, Celia Paul, Gwen John, Iona Glen, Lucian Freud, painting, Rachel Cusk, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, women artists, Zadie Smith

With the End in Mind by Reginald Sylvester II at Maximillian William, London

10th August 202114th June 2022  Ifeanyi Awachie

Reginald Sylvester II’s With the End in Mind showcases rich and affective abstract works, which both speak to and stand out among current exhibitions of Black art, writes our contributor Ifeanyi Awachie.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Abstract art, abstract painting, Allie Biswas, Amok Boafo, Black Artists, Black Lives Matter, Edouard Glissant, Frank B Wilderson, Frank Bowling, Function UK, Ifeanyi Awachie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Maximillian William Gallery, Modal painting, painting, Reginald Sylvester II, Sampada Aranke, With the End in Mind

Modal Painting at Maximillian William, London

1st May 20211st May 2021  Isabella Hill

Oscar Wollheim curates a sumptuous suite of five great abstract masters – Bowling, Gilliam, Golding, Hoyland and Sylvester II – in his imaginative and vibrant exhibition, Modal Painting, at Maximillian William.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Abstract art, Frank Bowling, John Golding, John Hoyland, Maximillian William Gallery, Modal painting, Oscar Wollheim, painting, Reginald Sylvester II, Sam Gilliam

‘Voice’ by So Mayer

10th March 20211st June 2021  So Mayer

After seeing artist Charlotte Salomon’s work in an exhibition before the first lockdown, So Mayer started to reflect on the evolution of Salomon’s innovative, word-strewn paintings. Here, they consider how Salomon’s work conjures and embodies a unique voice, a bold assertion of self that defies curatorial and art historical prejudices.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Alfred Eolfsohn, Artist, Bizet, Carmen, Charlotte Salomon, Freud, holocaust, James Joyce, Leben? oder Theater?, opera, painting, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, So Mayer, Toni Bentley, voice

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Chris, Christine and the Queens, Griselda Pollock, Jada Bruney, Jaqueline Rose, John Everett Millais, Millais, music video, Nathaniel Telemaque, Ophelia, painting, Photography, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphealitism, Rolake Osabia, Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Collective, The Ophelia Letters

Artemisia at the National Gallery, London

1st November 20201st November 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition celebrates the professional ingenuity, self-confidence and skilful proto-feminist paintings of one of Italy’s best Early Modern women artists, Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alexandra Lapierre, Art History, Artemisia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque, exhibition, Italian Baroque Art, Italian painting, Letizia Treves, Mary Garrard, National Gallery, Nina Houle, painting, Renaissance, Simon Vouet, Sistine Chapel

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