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How the forgotten art of Tirzah Garwood finally came to light

20-10-2024 13:00

She was better known as the wife of the artist Eric Ravilious, but the first major exhibition of Garwood’s visionary work is set to change thatIn the age of the blockbuster, it’s rare to get the chance to see art that is wholly unfamiliar. But when Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious opens at the Dulwich Picture Gallery next month, almost everything on display will be new to most visitors. The first major exhibition devoted to the artist, it will include more than 80 works, 90% of which

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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – vivid portrait of 20th-century artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

20-10-2024 13:00

Mark Cousins’s poetic documentary about the late St Ives-based Scottish artist is among his finest filmsAs a documentarian, Mark Cousins has always been fascinated by ways of seeing, by distinctive perspectives on the world. Perhaps this is why his latest film, a poetic cine-essay about the Scottish modernist painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), is among his most satisfying and inquiring. Willie, as she preferred to be called, saw the world slightly differently. She had synaesthesi

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Hew Locke: what have we here?; Haegue Yang: Leap Year – review

20-10-2024 10:00

British Museum; Hayward Gallery, London
In a show packed with treasures and tales of rampant imperial theft, the Guyanese-British artist compels you to look twice – and rethink everything. And finding poetry in the every day, Korean-styleCaptain Speedy, sporting an Ethiopian fur cloak, sits for his photograph on the Isle of Wight. It is 1868 and he has just returned from Britain’s punitive “expedition” to Abyssinia. Among his trophies are the lion’s mane shield prop

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The art of confrontation: an encounter with Damien Hirst, 1996

20-10-2024 07:00

The artist was notorious for being shocking, provocative and macabre… and that’s just his interviewsIn 1996, cow-bisecting art superstar Damien Hirst entertained the Observer, greeting the journalist at the door draped in a towel. ‘I like taking my clothes off,’ he said later. An encounter with Hirst was something approached with trepidation: there were reports of ‘challenging’ behaviour; he had filled a Sunday Times interviewer’s handbag with flies; th

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