Jacqueline Riding

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Jelena Sofronijevic |Ben Luke |Tom Seymour |Jacqueline Riding

My First Experience in an English Country Pub (“The Blinkin’ Bull”), Aubrey Williams’s satirical poem, datable to around 1952, is among the many revelations in Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures, the first monograph touching on the full range of the artist’s practice. Alongside artworks, many photographed for the first time, are diaries, archive photographs and, surprisingly, portraits of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Inca bodies liberated from the pages of National Geographic.

Jan 8, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Jacqueline Riding

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, Laura Smith (ed), Thames & Hudson, 272pp, 214 colour illustrations, £30 (hb), 15 MayBilled as the first critical biography of the influential artist and teacher, who mentored many of the Young British Artists, but whose own reputation declined after her sudden death in 1996. In collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield.

Dec 3, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Jacqueline Riding |Gareth Harris |José Da Silva

Aug 22, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Jacqueline Riding

Sequoia Miller, Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue With ObjectsGardiner Museum/Princeton, 112pp,63 col illus., $49.95/£42 (hb), 10 SeptemberAccompanying the Gardiner Museum (Toronto) show, this book will reveal the Kenya-born British ceramist’s use of classical forms while blending cultural and ethnographic sources “to give expression to the postcolonial experience”.

Mar 8, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Jacqueline Riding

Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 is an ambitious and handsome publication, which accompanies the exhibition co-organised by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario; it opens at the latter on 27 March (until 1 July 2024).