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3 weeks ago | 
frieze.com | Thomas McMullan
Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits Base Materialism | Albion Jeune | 5 June – 30 August French thinker Georges Bataille is the starting point for this rich group show at Albion Jeune, which takes its title from his conceptualization of an unstable base matter that undermines hierarchies of...
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4 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Thomas McMullan
The other day, conversation turned to love. Birthday cards in particular. What the hell are you meant to write in these things?
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1 month ago | 
ft.com | Thomas McMullan
“Ripeness is all,” muses Edith, the protagonist of Sarah Moss’s ninth novel.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Thomas McMullan
I wouldn’t wish the pains of being a 17-year-old boy on my worst enemy. The awkward longing, the spots, the insecurity: it’s enough to cringe yourself into oblivion. For John Patrick McHugh, however, it is a rich seam to squeeze – not only for humour, but for a nuanced examination of burgeoning masculinity.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
msn.com | Thomas McMullan
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
msn.com | Thomas McMullan
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Thomas McMullan
Anna and Tom are expats living in Berlin in the 2010s. As freelance digital creatives, their Neukölln flat is affordable, their windowsills are plant-lined, their armchairs are Danish mahogany. Meanwhile, their social lives are curated around gallery openings for art they do not much care about, cooking and the occasional attempt at an orgy. Perfection is Berlin-based Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico’s fourth novel, his first to be translated into English, here by Sophie Hughes.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Thomas McMullan
Bruno Zhu’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery presents the viewer, initially, with two bright green doors. Each leads to a different room in a quadrant of spaces fashioned from plasterboard. Enter the left door and you’re in an empty space with a purple floor and walls coloured red, green, yellow and blue. Travel clockwise and you’re in a room bare except for a set of large, mirrored vitrines with apertures shaped like card suits.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
internationalaffairs.org.au | Thomas McMullan
The gradual withdrawal of the Saudi-led coalition from Yemen and a diplomatic rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggest a major geopolitical realignment in the Middle East, challenging US influence. This new alignment signals a regional shift towards greater independence, with Riyadh and Tehran turning their focus toward shared challenges and away from antagonistic competition.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Thomas McMullan
The Fifer at Maureen Paley, London shows the work of an artist long interested in geopolitical anchors, their dropping and raisingBirdsong calls out from the gloom, from a dark gallery wedged to one side of Maureen Paley’s L-shaped space. But it’s the brighter gallery that draws first, towards both the oldest and the newest of Deimantas Narkevičius’s works on show here.
