
Laura Cumming
Art Critic at The Observer
@ObserverUK art critic. Thunderclap - out July 5; On Chapel Sands, Sunday Times bestseller; The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks @simonschuster Rep: @pew_literary
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Laura Cumming
Plus, Yoshitomo Nara is a rare dud at the Hayward Three gossips on a balcony are all side-eye and sneer. One woman points an insinuating finger at the other, while a middleman waits hungrily for her response. Razored eyebrows and savage kiss curls, racy greed and scandal: this is the fag end of the 1920s, with additional barb. Edward Burra (1905-76) paints these vicious scenes everywhere.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Laura Cumming
There is death and danger lurking in Hamad Butt’s quietly shocking work – as visitors wearing safety glasses discover. And two art stars find a natural home among Freud’s curious treasury of objects A vision of great danger glows before you in the Whitechapel Gallery. It takes the form of 18 glass spheres suspended only inches from the floor. Lemon, citrine, chartreuse, each is seductively coloured, their overlapping shadows below a festival of light.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Laura Cumming
Undergoing surgery to hide her Asian roots, 30s Hollywood star Merle Oberon is the subject of an absorbing film installation. And sass meets silk as American wives of British aristocrats sit for John Singer Sargent The Hollywood actor Merle Oberon, according to a sugary profile in Cavalcade magazine in 1937, was born on the sunny island of Tasmania, washed by the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Her father was an army officer who had died only months before.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Laura Cumming
From Eric Ravilious to Lucian Freud, Bridget Riley, David Hockney and Lubaina Himid, artists depict each other with love, admiration and occasionally loathing in a relay through 120 years of British art that enthrals at every turn Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; until 2 November Lucian Freud’s 1952 portrait of his fellow painter John Minton is breathtakingly acute.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Laura Cumming
From her 70s subversion of domestic drudgery to her naked adventures with a photocopier, a major new Helen Chadwick retrospective contains all the late artist's finest provocations. Plus, next door, Caroline Walker’s quiet scenes of modern-day motherhood Helen Chadwick: Life PleasuresCaroline Walker: MotheringBoth at Hepworth Wakefield; until 27 OctoberHelen Chadwick was at the peak of her fame when she died, suddenly, in 1996 at the age of 42.
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