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Beyond the Canvas
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel at The Curve, London
There are exhibitions that touch you somewhere deep inside. Far from merely delighting you visually, they grab you by the hand and they...
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Beyond the Canvas
Jun 8, 20221 min read
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
Dec 28, 20211 min read
In Memoriam - Wayne Thiebaud: An Ode to Cake
"The whiteness of meringue becomes for me of great poetic preoccupation; it's like snow, like frost ... like ... purity.'' - Wayne...
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Beyond the Canvas
Nov 13, 20211 min read
Domenico Gnoli at Fondazione Prada, Milan
“I always use simple elements, I don’t want to add or subtract anything. I never even wanted to deform either: I isolate and I represent....
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Beyond the Canvas
Oct 16, 20212 min read
A museum for change: the Museum of Homelessness, London
From the Wunderkammers of Renaissance to this day, the Global West has a museum for everything. From sex to death, from vaginas to...
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Beyond the Canvas
Jun 10, 20202 min read
The Unforgettables: Felice Casorati's "Portrait of Silvana Cenni"
Suspended between Piero della Francesca's spatial geometries and De Chirico's metaphysics, Casorati paints a portrait that looks like a...
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Beyond the Canvas
May 2, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 8: Aleksey Sundukov at Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg (19 September 2018)
The museums I have visited in Russia (Moscow and Saint Petersburg this far) have made a lasting impression on me. If we exclude the...
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Beyond the Canvas
Apr 22, 20201 min read
Flashback no. 6: Paula Rego at Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (21 Dec 2018)
Portuguese-born Paula Rego doesn't paint to please the viewer, she paints to disorientate them. Her canvasses tell uncomfortable,...
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