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...In Bárbara Sánchez-Kane’s “Prêt-à Patria”, goose-stepping Mexican soldiers mounted one above the other wear uniforms open at the back to expose lacy lingerie, a sardonic, salacious take on nationalism and...
...At her Warsaw home, Maria Katarzyna Krętowska is surrounded by memories of her grandmother — the Polish artist Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska (1933-2019)....
...By turns enjoyable and overburdened by ideology, it follows recent London shows — Tate’s Life Between Islands, the Hayward’s In the Black Fantastic — in celebrating an essential story: 20th- and 21st-century...
...Born in 1895, Jim Ede was an artist, writer and lecturer who worked as a curator at the Tate in the 1920s and 1930s....
...Another Tate exhibition well worth seeing, which runs until 14 January, is the Casablanca Art School exhibition at the Tate St Ives, which I visited over my summer holidays and very much enjoyed....
...You feel like this is the place to go, a whole world you can step right into,” says Barbara Guggenheim, founder of the US art consultancy Guggenheim, Asher Associates....
...Flicking through the exhibition catalogue, it’s hard to avoid comparisons to artists such as Moore, Giacometti and Barbara Hepworth....
...Time is running out to see the Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life exhibition at Tate St Ives, so if you can drop everything, do. It runs to May 1....
...The organisers hope the mobile exhibition, including works by John Constable and JMW Turner to Jeremy Deller and Barbara Hepworth, will help art find new audiences....
...Lots such as a 1944 Freud self-portrait (£1.5mn-£2mn) and the 2009 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painting “Diplomacy I” (£1mn-£1.5mn) — recently shown at Tate Britain — “string together a powerful narrative around...
...Tate St Ives’s current wide-ranging show, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, brings together nearly five decades’ worth of work across multiple media: drawings, paintings, prints and, of course, her incredible...
...For Eleanor Clayton, a Hepworth specialist and author of Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (which accompanies a survey of her work travelling to Tate St Ives later this year), it’s no coincidence that they were...
...In 2020, the Tate acquired two pieces (one from Uniacke) – Macrogauze 116 No. 2 and 3D Wall Hanging. “That would never have happened even a decade ago,” says curator and art consultant Andrew Bonacina....
...This is where I like to come after a visit to Tate St Ives, and where I send friends looking for places to stay in Cornwall....
...A former power plant built in 1907, it was converted by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, and could become as important on the global art circuit as London’s Tate Modern or the Centre Pompidou in Paris....
...The next day, another gallery artist, Barbara Kruger, opens a solo show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art....
...In 2019, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall hosted Kara Walker’s “Fons Americanus”, a 13-metre-tall fountain alluding to the suffering of humans transported as cargo across the Atlantic that shaped the modern world...
...Like Tate Modern, it occupies a former power station, which Italian architect Renzo Piano has bathed in light — or at least what little light there is in Moscow in December — with floor-to-ceiling windows...
...On a more contemporary note, May sees the long-delayed opening of a full retrospective of Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain — not be missed — and at Tate St Ives, which also hosts a homecoming show by Barbara...
...“Apart from Barbara Hepworth, name a woman sculptor, let me tell you, there are none.” Who is the dunce now?...
...In Tate Modern’s current collection display – positioned next to a wall of Guerrilla Girls’ posters and a bold Barbara Kruger – is a depiction of a bathroom....
...Liverpool; Zanele Muholi’s grave, arresting portraits of South Africa’s black queer community at Tate Modern; news from the classroom in Steve McQueen’s “Year 3” project at Tate Britain....
...As such she is in a lineage of abstract female sculptors that encompasses Phyllida Barlow, Eva Hesse — a key influence on Ryan — and Barbara Hepworth....
...The female gallerists in London – Maureen Paley, Victoria Miro and Sadie Coles – were a strong inspiration, alongside New York pioneers such as Barbara Gladstone, Marian Goodman and Paula Cooper....
...Kettle’s Yard founder Jim Ede, a Tate curator, called Wallis “the primitive of the 20th century”, authentically “naive without being sophisticated”....
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