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Remembering Peter Schjeldahl: indispensable critic, poet, and lyrical observer of the embodied experience of art
His direct and personal style made him a well-respected chronicler of the US art scene for over 50 years
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The Big Review: Alice Neel at the Centre Pompidou ★★★★★
While her New York peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life
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The Big Review: the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
The climate theme of this year’s exhibition rings hollow
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The Big Review: Postwar Modern—New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at Barbican Gallery
A show shaped by refugees and immigrants who made new lives on British shores has a war-stained resonance with today
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Lyrical Helen Frankenthaler biography and Joan Mitchell catalogue make a splash
New publications cast a light on two formidable women artists and place them at the heart of Abstract Expressionism
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The Big Review—Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
The British artist rekindles her love affair with the work of her favourite artist at the Royal Academy—and it is Emin whose voice emerges strongest





