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• Nicole Eisenman: What Happened; Re/Sisters; El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon – review

  15-10-2023 14:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery; Barbican; Tate Modern, London
  Three new exhibitions encompass Eisenman’s wild and satirical paintings, poignant reactions to environmental ruin and an exquisite transformation of the Turbine HallNicole Eisenman is a riot. The French-American artist has filled the Whitechapel Gallery top-to-toe with her raucous, pungent, tumultuous pictures, running from all-out japery to tragicomic narrative. At 58, and with a MacArthur Genius Grant, she is an art star in New York for
  
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• Dalíland review – surrealist biopic paints Ben Kingsley into a corner

  15-10-2023 09:00
  
  Mary Harron’s frustratingly elusive Salvador Dalí portrait has a persuasive central turn but its star has little to get his teeth intoHow do you create a revealing and intimate portrait of someone who is forever playing a self-created role? How do you find something that is honest in a character who is composed of onion layers of artifice? It’s a problem with which writer-director Mary Harron wrestles in her latest film, an account of a late period in the life of the surrealis
  
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