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Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue

Louis Victor Leborgne's brain
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When Paris’ infamous museum of anatomical pathology closed its doors in 2016, a controversial collection disappeared from view.

November 24, 2022 Books, Features, Home

Billie Zangewa at Galerie Templon, Paris

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As the opening day of Billie Zangewa’s show drew to a close, few would have anticipated the circumstances that would soon engulf it, nor the new resonances her work would find in light of them.

May 14, 2020 Art, Home

“Our World is Burning” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

mustapha akrim, palais de tokyo, sainsbury
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The Palais de Tokyo’s collaboration with the Qatari museum Mathaf, “Our World is Burning” offers an ambitious survey of contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa.

April 9, 2020 Art, Home

“Christian Boltanski: Life in the Making” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

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In his seminal 1980 work “Camera Lucida,” the philosopher Roland Barthes wrote that “every photograph is a certificate of presence.” The French artist Christian Boltanski has spent the last 60 years probing the limits of such an idea.

January 16, 2020 Art, Home

Barbara Hepworth’s Time- Defying Sculpture Celebrated in Paris

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While her belief in the triumphant power of art anchors Hepworth in an ideology that, for some, fell out of fashion or became untenable after the atrocities of World War II, Hepworth maintained a lifelong optimism about what sculpture could do.

November 12, 2019 Art, Home

Gabriel de la Mora: “Art is not created or destroyed, it is just transformed.”

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An interview with the Mexican artist on the eve of his new show “ECHO” at Galerie Perrotin.

October 22, 2019 Art, Features, Home

A Literary Light on Bacon

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“Bacon always said that what he wanted to do with his work was to celebrate life. When you love life, you integrate all parts of it — even death, even cruelty, it’s all part of life.”

October 1, 2019 Art, Books, Features, Home

Review: “Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)” at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

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Full article in Art+Auction magazine (September 2019).

September 1, 2019 Art, Home

Curiosities, Cave Paintings and Picasso the Poet

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Full article in Modern Painters magazine (September 2019).

July 8, 2019 Art, Home

Review: “Calder-Picasso” at the Musée Picasso, Paris

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This question of space — of how something takes up space, deconstructs it or contains it — preoccupied both artists throughout their careers.

June 20, 2019 Art, Home

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