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Rosie Gibbens: Interview of the Month August 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August....
More Out Of London Summer Exhibitions 2021 – Artlyst Recommends
Have you planned your summer staycation away from London? Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country to satisfy your...
Frida Kahlo: A Question Of Ethnicity – Edward Lucie-Smith
A recent Opinion piece on the website Hyperallegenic fiercely condemned Frida Kahlo, long one of the patron saints of contemporary feminist art....
Spencer Finch: Interview of the Month July 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery ('Only the hand that erases writes the true thing', to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works which...
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego defiantly continued to tell stories,...
Marie Raymond And Post-War Avant Garde Painting In Paris
'It seems obvious,' writes Robert Fleck in Marie Raymond/Yves Klein, 'that we will not understand the extent of Yves Klein's adventure and his...
Ena Swansea: Interview of the Month June 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea. Her big,...
Hello Cunty: Sotheby’s Appropriates The Colony Room – Darren Coffield
For the last couple of weeks, people have been phoning and hounding me to see if they could get on the guestlist for "Hello Cunty: Stories from the...
Art Night 2021 Returns With Nation-Wide Social Distanced Mega Event
Art Night 2021 is back for the Summer expanding out of London across the country and taking place in locations from Skye to Eastbourne and from...
20th Century Women Artists Challenging Conventions In Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
The twentieth century was a time of great change for women. Those born, raised and educated in the 19th century, then forming relationships and...
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Rarely can a portrait, including a dead body under a sheet, have created such a powerful, immediate, critical and public response. Ken Currie,...
Louis Carreon: Sampling Art History – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
With a background in tagging, rapping, skateboarding and surfing, Californian-born Louis Carreon is a street artist who is currently sampling art...