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Exhibition Review
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Barbican Art Gallery, London
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1264-1267
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Reviewer:
Spencer, Catherine (Spencer, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Schneemann, Carolee
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women artists / Feminism / Photography / Performance art / Installations (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics Barbican Art Gallery, London 8th September 2022– 8th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Up to and including her limits, by Carolee Schneemann. Performed at Studiogalerie, Berlin, 1976. (© Carolee Schneemann Foundation, New York, ARS, New York and DACS, London; courtesy Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; photograph Henrik Gaard; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. From the series Eye body: 36 transformative actions for camera, by Carolee Schneemann. 1963, printed 2005. Gelatin silver print, 61 by 50.8 cm. (© Carolee Schneemann Foundation, New York, ARS, New York, and DACS, London; courtesy Carolee Schneemann Foundation, New York, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, Hales Gallery, London, and P.P.O.W, New York; photograph Erró; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Wedding, by Carolee Schneemann. 1960. Oil, gouache, chalk, ink, graphite and collage on paper, 62.9 by 78.1 cm. (© Carolee Schneemann Foundation, New York; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. More wrong things, by Carolee Schneemann. 2000. Multichannel video installation with suspended cable environment, dimensions variable. (Photograph Marcus J. Leith; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945–1965
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 615-619
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Reviewer:
Cranfield, Ben (Cranfield, Ben)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Twentieth-century art / Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, Great Britain / Modern Art / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945–1965 Barbican Art Gallery, London 3rd March–26th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Figure 59, by Magda Cordell. c.1958. Oil and acrylic on Masonite, 243.8 by 152.4 cm. (Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
30. Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath, by Lee Miller with David E. Scherman. 1945. Gelatin silver print from original negative, 40 by 30 cm. (Lee Miller Estate; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
31. Mr Sebastian, by Francis Newton Souza. 1955. Oil on board, 78.8 by 63.5 cm. (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; © Estate of FN Souza; DACS 2021; courtesy Grosvenor Gallery, London; photograph Justin Piperger; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
32. Eleven persons and one donkey moving forward, by Franciszka Themerson. 1947. Oil on canvas, 68.6 by 83.8 cm. (© Themerson Estate; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 736-739
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Reviewer:
Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Dubuffet, Jean
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
styles:
Surrealism / Art Brut
subjects:
French art / Outsider art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty Barbican Art Gallery, London 17th May–22nd August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Wall and opinions, by Jean Dubuffet. January–March 1945. Lithograph on Montval cardboard, 121 by 45 cm. (Collection Fondation Dubuffet, Paris; © 2021 ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Lady’s body, by Jean Dubuffet. December 1950. Watercolour on paper, 48 by 31 cm. (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; © 2021 ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; © MAD, Paris, and Cyrille Bernard; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
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3. Texturology XLVI (with ochre flashes), by Jean Dubuffet. 30th May 1958. Oil on canvas, 97 by 130 cm. (Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; © 2021 ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; © MAD, Paris, and Jean Tholance; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
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4. Site inhabited by objects, by Jean Dubuffet. 1st–3rd May 1965. Vinyl paint on canvas, 130 by 162 cm. (Tate; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Lee Krasner: Living Colour. Barbican Art Gallery, London
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 678-681
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artists:
Krasner, Lee / Eames, Ray
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
styles:
Abstract Expressionism
subjects:
American art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Self-Portrait, by Lee Krasner. c.1929. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 81.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
18. Polar stampede, by Lee Krasner. 1960. Oil on canvas, 243.8 by 412.4 cm. (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
19. Untitled, by Lee Krasner. 1946. Oil on linen, 70.5 by 76.8 cm. (Private collection; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
20. Palingenesis, by Lee Krasner. 1971. Oil on canvas, 208.3 by 340.4 cm. (Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing. Jeu de Paume, Paris
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 965-968
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Reviewer:
Constantine, Simon (Constantine, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Lange, Dorothea / White, Clarence Hudson / Dixon, Maynard / Cunningham, Imogen / Van Dyke, Willard Ames / Weston, Edward / Adams, Ansel
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
Photography / Photomechanical processes / Portraits / Style / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Race / Workers / Working Class / African Americans
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 33.3 by 25.5 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Sacramento, California. College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center, by Dorothea Lange. 1942. Digital print, 27.9 by 22.9 cm. (Courtesy U.S. National Archives; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Attributed works:
21. White angel breadline, San Francisco, by Dorothea Lange. 1933. Gelatin silver print, 53.3 by 43.8 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Photography round up
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 426-427
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Reviewer:
McNay, Anna (McNay, Anna)
Subjects
art literature:
Cixous, Hélène
artists:
Arbus, Diane / Steele-Perkins, Chris / Chadwick, Helen
artists:
Davidson, Bruce / Clark, Larry / Goldberg, Jim
artists:
Chancel, Philippe / Kubelka, Friedl / Bertlmann, Renate
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Photographers' Gallery, London, Great Britain / Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Portraits / Gender / Subcultures / Photographic collections
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Verwandlungen (Transformations), by Renate Bertlmann. 1969–2013. Black-and-white photographs on baryta paper, 25 by 17 cm. each. (Richard Saltoun, London).
Attributed works:
31. Christmas card from Gloria in a black dress, attributed to Andrea Susan. 1965. (Casa Susanna Collection; © Art Galley of Ontario; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Western art unattributed:
30. Mock wedding, United States. c.1900. (© Sébastien Lifshitz Collection; exh. The Photographers’ Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Jean-Michel Basquiat. London and Frankfurt
12/2017 | 1377 | 159
Pages: 1003-1004
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Reviewer:
Boaden, James (Boaden, James)
Subjects
artists:
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
places:
New York
styles:
American art
Reviewed Items
styles:
Basquiat: Boom for Real at the Barbican Art Gallery, London and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
57. Self-portrait, by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1984 (Private collection; © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
58. Hollywood Africans, by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1983 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
59. like an ignorant easter suit, Jean-Michel Basquiat on the set of Downtown 81 by Maripol and Edo Bertoglio. (New York Beat Film LLC; © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat; photograph Edo Bertoglio; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
The Japanese house. London
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 492
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Reviewer:
Hopkins, Owen (Hopkins, Owen)
Subjects
artists:
Nishizawa, Ryue / Fujimori, Terunobu
dates:
1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Japanese architecture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Installation view of The Japanese House at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2017, showing a reconstruction of Moriyama House, Tokyo, designed by Ryue Nishizawa. 2005
Attributed works:
47. Installation view of The Japanese House at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, showing a teahouse designed for the exhibition by Terunobu Fujimori. 2017
Exhibition Review
Paul Strand; international photographers in Britain; Fox Talbot. Philadelphia, Winterthur, Madrid and London
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 474-476
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Author:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Strand, Paul / Fox Talbot, William Henry
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Photographs
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Science Museum, London, Great Britain / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
museums and institutions:
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
places:
Winterthur / Switzerland / Spain / United States / Philadelphia / Madrid / London / England
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. The family, Luzzara (the Lusettis), by Paul Strand. 1953 negative, mid-to-late 1960s print (Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
60. The happy family, Orgeval, by Paul Strand. 1957 (Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
61. Foyle Road on the day after clashes between Catholics and Protestants in the Battle of Bogside, by Akihiko Okamura. 1969 (Courtesy of the Estate of Akihiko Okamura, Hakodate; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
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62. The red sheath, by Tina Barney. 2001 (Paul Kasmin Gallery, London; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
Charles and Ray Eames
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 138-140
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
artists:
Eames, Charles / Eames, Ray
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Installation view of The World of Charles and Ray Eames at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2015, showing the recreation of the Eames Office room display for the exhibition Modern Living at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1949
Attributed works:
67. Eames Office staff posing in a model for Glimpses of the USA for the American National Exhibition, Moscow, 1959 (Eames Office LLC; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
68. Installation view of Glimpses of the USA, American National Exhibition, Moscow, 1959 (Eames Office LLC)
Attributed works:
69. Eames House living room, Pacific Palisades, 1958 (Eames Office LLC; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
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