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Posts Tagged ‘art’

Animal Instinct, Pangolin London, exhibition review: ‘Majestic and compelling’

By Islington Citizen | Wednesday 26 March 2025 | 0

The sculpture gallery’s wildlife-themed show is ‘engaging’ and accessible to a wide audience

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At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, Victoria Miro, exhibition review: ‘Open, honest images’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 21 February 2025 | 0

The American artist’s portraits offer a ‘uniquely personal expression of each individual’

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Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Power that stretches across cultures’

By Islington Citizen | Friday 14 February 2025 | 0

Sasmita inverts patriarchal motifs to ‘reclaim representation of and for women’

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Breaking Lines, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: ‘Blurring literature and painting’

By islingtoncitizen | Monday 27 January 2025 | 0

This double bill brings together two groups of artists to remind us of the ‘commonalities that run through apparently distant cultural movements’

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The 80s: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, exhibition review: ‘A big show with a big takeaway’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 27 November 2024 | 0

This mammoth photography collection showcases artists who found ‘new ways of imagining their local communities’

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Antonio Calderara: A Certain Light, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: ‘Gentle formalism with roots in nature’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 November 2024 | 0

The Italian artist’s figures and landscapes ‘seem to float in space’

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Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: ‘Playful, whimsical and very moving’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 14 June 2023 | 0

The first UK show dedicated to the 20th-century painter offers visitors a ‘flight of fancy’

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‘Very exciting’: Plans for Quentin Blake illustration centre win unanimous approval from councillors

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 23 February 2022 | 0

Islington set to be home to the world’s largest venue dedicated to illustration

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Decision on Quentin Blake illustration centre draws closer

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 21 February 2022 | 0

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 | 0

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 | 0

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 | 0

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 | 0

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 | 0

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

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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 | 0

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 | 0

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

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Courtauld Institute’s temporary campus meets resistance from residents

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 14 May 2019 | 0

Art Institute to remain in Vernon Square premises while Somerset House undergoes refurbishment

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Fausto Melotti comes to Highbury

By Sarah Birch | Monday 21 January 2019 | 0

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 | 0
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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