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Domenichino's Sibilla Cumana at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Being inside an empty museum at night might well be the ultimate art lover's fantasy. Apart from not having to share the space with herds...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jul 9, 2022
- 1 min
Sarah Ball (et al.) at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
There is a milky evanescence to this mesmerising portrait by British artist Sarah Ball, and the longer I stood in front of it, the more...
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- Jun 25, 2022
- 2 min
Roe vs Wade overturned: The relentless erasure of women's rights.
They've only gone ahead and done it. I'm not even going to get into why those late SCOTUS appointments were so crucial. You know why. Nor...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
Gates of Turan, Firouz FarmanFarmaian at the Venice Biennale
Sometimes the Venice Biennale takes you places you'd never dream of going to. A decision to escape the mad crowds of San Marco and take...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
In memoriam: Paula Rego (1935 - 2022)
Paula Rego died today. The art world has lost one of the greats. I'm so glad I got to see her some of her work one more time at the...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jun 2, 2022
- 1 min
On Italian National Day, 02/06/2022
On 11 June 1946, the Italian people voted in an institutional referendum to replace the monarchy with a republic. I won't lie, it was...
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Beyond the Canvas
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
Where Once the Waters, David Cass - Venice Biennale
My experience at the Venice Biennale is that it is often the fortuitous detour, aka me getting lost like I inevitably do, that is going...
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Beyond the Canvas
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
Kehinde Wiley’s Archeology of Silence, Fondazione Cini
“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown...
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- May 7, 2022
- 2 min
Ukrainian artists: Nikolay Lukin
I had been following Nikolay Lukin on Instagram for some time, and this morning he followed me back. Дякую, Микола. His latest post is a...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Luca Maria Castelli "Bologna sola" - Galleria Forni, Bologna
The first lockdown was nothing short of surreal. And although we were all at home and terrified of not knowing what the heck was...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Maria Kulikovska
"Mariupol is always covered with smog. On the other side of the sea is occupied Crimea - my home. 20 km away in the east, the war...
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- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Kinder Album
"There will be a painting that shows our victory, for sure." - Kinder Album (interviewed by Bird in Flight) The truth is we do not know...
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- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Humilevskiy
"During the quarantine period, I began to create staged self-portraits at home. In the photo, which was the beginning of the series, I...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Artem Volokitin
Artem Volokitin was born in 1981. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, home to 1.4 million people and less than...
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- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Marina Skugareva
There are moments in life when our fear is such that we scramble for ways of taming it, in the hope that this crippling fear will somehow...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Cops and lovers
Today Instagram is aflood with red hearts, declarations of eternal love, schmaltzy quotes and unmissable promotions. And while swathes of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Appropriating Jacopo Pontormo is a really bad idea
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Apocryphal quote The history of modern and contemporary art is littered with instances of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 20, 2022
- 2 min
The return of Jan van Huysum's Vase of Flowers
The Vase of Flowers by Jan van Huysum is one of the best still lifes that the Amsterdam-born artist produced between the end of the XVII...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
The universality of misogyny
"When I went to New York in 1992, I recognized that there was a genre called installation art, and had an idea that I will pop out from...
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- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
Throwback to Rudolf Stingel at Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Current rabbit hole update: scandals and crimes in the art world, of which I am delighted to inform you there is an abundance of. One...
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