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Tag: Picasso

Behind the Myth of the Mad Muse: Dora Maar at Tate Modern

19th January 202025th January 2020  Lottie Whalen

Tate Modern’s latest exhibition celebrates the work of Surrealist artist Dora Maar, drawing her out of the shadow of male contemporaries and challenging the myth of the ‘mad muse’.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Barbican Art Gallery, Cubism, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Nusch Eluard, Photography, Photomontage, Picasso, Surrealism, Tate Modern

Women in the Arts: A Panel Discussion at Dulwich Picture Gallery

18th November 201918th November 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Sarah Crompton chairs a panel of curators, artists and the director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery to discuss the future of women in the art world, as reported by Arts writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World, Berthe Morisot, Black British Art, Carla van de Puttelaar, Dora Maar, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Edna Manley, Eric Gill, Jennifer Scott, Leonora Carrington, Linda Nochlin, Lisa Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Picasso, Rembrandt, Sarah Crompton, Turner Prize, Women in the Arts

Starting at the tail end of the snake: Islamic art, British Orientalism and contemporary responses at the British Museum and Watts Gallery

3rd November 20196th February 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Two exhibitions at the British Museum and Watts Gallery strive to re-contextualise European Orientalism and emphasise artistic relationships between east and west, but do they succeed? asks our arts writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art Workers' Guild, British Museum, Edward Said, Ince Eviner, Ingres, Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, John Frederick Lewis, Marina Warner, Orientalism, Ottoman Empire, Picasso, Read Saadeh, The octagon Project, Watts Gallery

San Francisco Ballet’s Triple Bill: McIntyre / Wheeldon / Dawson, at Sadler’s Wells

8th June 201910th June 2019  Victoria Smith

The perils of electronic technology, the stylistic beauty of modernism and the possibilities a solar eclipse affords are all explored in San Francisco Ballet’s terrific triple bill at Sadler’s Wells.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Christopher Garneau, Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson, Ezio Bosso, Ezra Pound, Gene Kelly, Karl Jung, Keaton Heston, Picasso, Rufus Wainwright, Sadler's Wells, San Francisco Ballet, Stravinsky, T. S. Eliot, Trey McIntyre
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