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Exhibition Review
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 513–5
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Reviewer:
Terracciano, Emilia (Terracciano, Emilia)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
India
subjects:
Indian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998 Edited by Shanay Jhaveri. 288 pp. incl. 250 col. ills. (Prestel, London and New York, 2024), £45. ISBN 978–3–7913–7769–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. How can you sleep tonight?, by Gulammohammed Sheikh. 1994–95. Oil on canvas, 213.4 by 213.4 cm. (© Gulammohammed Sheikh; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; courtesy the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi).
Attributed works:
13. Shamiana, by Nilima Sheikh. 1996. Six hanging scrolls of casein tempera on canvas, canopy of synthetic polymer paint on canvas and steel frame; dimensions variable. (Queensland Art Gallery Foundation).
Attributed works:
14. My mother, by Arpita Singh. 1993. Oil on canvas, 137.2 by 182.9 cm. (© Arpita Singh; private collection; courtesy Talwar Gallery, New York and New Delhi).
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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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)
Attributed works:
62. The red sheath, by Tina Barney. 2001 (Paul Kasmin Gallery, London; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
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