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Micheal Armitage @ RA
Currently on at the RA, Micheal Armitage’s solo show. The Kenyan born oil painter makes gargantuan pieces, weaving rich, bodily...
Maria Dragoi
Jul 30, 20214 min read


Review: Liu Wei's 'Nudita' at Whitecube
Shanghai-based artist Liu Wei’s exhibition ‘Nudita’ takes its name from an essay written by the Italian philosopher Girogio Agamben. The...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Jul 28, 20214 min read


A Tale of Color: Indigo
« Now we are in love with each other. I think of her and she thinks of me. When she sees me arrive in the fields she is happy. » Pierre...

Garance Querleu
Jul 23, 20218 min read


Sonia Delaunay at Bastian Gallery
This review has been a while in the making, and writing it has been filled with a good deal of hesitation. I wrote the first draft, which...
Maria Dragoi
Jun 13, 20214 min read


Intimacy in Turner : A Visual Essay in 20 Details
Before I saw Turner at theTate Britain, I thought of him as an artist preoccupied with the massive. I knew him for his grandiose battle...
Maria Dragoi
May 26, 20212 min read


Long Awaited Laughs and Giggles with Bedwyr Williams: MILQUESTOAST Southwark Park Galleries Review
On a dazzling day of May, I got an opportunity to attend the preview of Bedwyr Williams’ new exhibition at the Southwark Park Galleries,...
Majka Wankiewicz
May 17, 20213 min read


A Deafening Roar: Was J.M.W Turner's Slave Ship predicting the persistence of systemic racism?
J.M.W Turner's The Slave Ship isn’t a visual depiction of the Atlantic Slave Trade, it is an emblem of remorse, a totem of inhumanity, a...

Garance Querleu
May 12, 20218 min read


In Conversation with Veronika Čechová : Curating 'The Alchemist'
Edited for length and clarity. 'The Alchemist' is on show at Gossamer Fog in Deptford until the 16th of May, 2021. M: I want to ask how...
Maria Dragoi
May 9, 202113 min read


Art In the ‘Apotopic’ Space: Defiling_the_Virgin
In this essay I want to discuss the urge for revelation. Several weeks ago, I was writing in my notes app as I was sitting in Alexandria...
Maria Dragoi
Apr 26, 20219 min read


Why Art Matters, continuing the tradition of curiosity
Godelieve de Bree has been Strand Magazine’s Art Editor for the past two years, a colorful time throughout which the journalist offered...

Garance Querleu
Apr 20, 20213 min read
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