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Art & Design

Decision on Quentin Blake illustration centre draws closer

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 21 February 2022

Council planners considering proposal for the world’s largest illustration venue in Clerkenwell

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Noguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 October 2021

Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’

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Hyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 July 2021

The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’

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‘An artist who needs to be seen now’: Estorick gallery’s new exhibition celebrates work of Olivier Debré

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 5 July 2021

The postwar French painter is ‘highly regarded throughout the world, yet remains almost unknown in the UK’

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Open air art: A handy guide to London’s best offerings

By Islington Citizen | Friday 26 March 2021

The capital might still be in lockdown, but there’s plenty of culture on show for those willing to walk

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Blue is the theme of an absorbing online exhibition

By Islington Citizen | Thursday 25 March 2021

The Victoria Miro gallery has gathered together work by 19 artists in which the colour features

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Brazilian photographer and activist Claudia Andujar set for major Barbican retrospective

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 24 March 2021

Summer show will focus on Andujar’s work with Brazil’s Yanomami people, as curator says arts audiences must ‘take on ethical responsibility’

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Lithography from Leningrad, Estorick Collection: ‘A far cry from the drab stereotype of the Soviet Union’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 22 November 2019

A rare glimpse at ‘quirky and wholly modern’ prints produced by the Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory in the 1950s

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Paolo Scheggi in Depth, Estorick Collection: ‘Well-chosen retrospective for a versatile artist’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 23 August 2019

The work of the Florentine, who died in the early 70s aged just 31, is fast becoming iconic

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Fausto Melotti comes to Highbury

By Sarah Birch | Monday 21 January 2019

A new exhibition of the artist’s work exudes geometric harmony

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Essex Road 5: Take a walk on the arty side

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 10 January 2019
Image: I had the Dream of a Perfect World, © Dmitri Galitzine, 2018, HD video still

Tintype gallery sponsors free walks with local artists

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The Art of Campari @ The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: ‘you may leave a little thirsty…’

By Ed Sheridan | Wednesday 4 July 2018
Fortunato Depero's Distrattamente mise il Bitter Campari in testa (1928). Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Look beyond the famous ‘Luton Airport’ ad – the Milanese apéritif has a history of advertising with stunning Italian art, as exhibited here

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Rationalism on Set: Glamour and Modernity in 1930s Italian Cinema, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: a sleek exploration of style on celluloid

By Islington Citizen | Wednesday 2 May 2018
Gastone Medin's set design for L’ultima avventura (The Last Adventure; Dir. Mario Camerini, 1932) Photograph: attributed to Aurelio Pesce, courtesy Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale

This photographic voyage through 1930s Italian cinema brilliantly illustrates the twin development of newfangled ‘talkie’ films and mid-century modern design

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Gérard Touren, Ordinary People in Tokyo Streets, Sway Gallery, exhibition review: ‘solitary fragments’

By Islington Citizen | Monday 26 March 2018

The Old Street gallery is showing work from the French photographer’s time in Tokyo from 2015 – 2017, where he hunted for subjects who put a ‘kink’ in the urban chaos

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