Naomi Polonsky
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United Kingdom
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The Turner Prize Wrestles With an Identity Crisis
How does a selective competition fit with the contemporary art world’s aspirations toward greater inclusivity? → Read More
What Freedom Looks Like for Incarcerated Artists
Koestler Arts works with incarcerated people and patients in secure mental health units, aiming to improve their lives through creativity. → Read More
A Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber's Lasting Legacy
Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war. → Read More
Why Do Artists Keep Painting "The Women in the Window"?
The exhibition Reframed: The Woman in the Window explores the acts of looking and being looked at, framing, and art making. → Read More
The Forgotten Story of Modern Art's Great Jewish Collectors
Charles Dellheim's study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries. → Read More
The Restless Spirit of Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid's Tate exhibition is a conversation, a rhetorical question, an experiment. Like opera, from which it draws its inspiration, it aims to be “a total work of art.” → Read More
Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society. → Read More
Climate Activists Occupy London’s Science Museum to Protest Shell Sponsorship
During the two-day protests, activists explained that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museum green-wash Shell’s reputation.” → Read More
Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life
In Packer’s canvases, swathes of abstraction express aspects of human experience that lie beyond representation. → Read More
A Beguiling Look at the Biases of AI
With Bloom, Trevor Paglen collapses distinctions between the real and virtual, laying bare the prejudices embedded in supposedly objective artificial intelligence systems. → Read More
28 Years of Miranda July, Master of Self-Fashioning
Titled simply Miranda July, Prestel’s excellent new “mid-career retrospective” of the artist highlights July’s enduring interest in the very darkest aspects of human existence. → Read More
The Untamed Jungles of Vivian Suter’s Abstract Paintings
While the ecological aspect of Suter’s work is particularly timely, her obvious enjoyment of pure color and form makes her artworks all the more enduring. → Read More
Anti-Oil Activists Stage Largest Protest Yet at British Museum, With Trojan Horse in Tow
Hundreds of activists occupied the British Museum for a protest lasting over two days straight, coinciding with the BP-sponsored exhibition Troy: Myth and Reality. → Read More
Using Art to Voice Opposition to the Arms Trade
Dozens of artists are showcasing at Art the Arms fair in London, a protest exhibition that runs concurrent to the notorious Defence and Security Equipment International. → Read More
Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of 60 women artists from Tate's permanent collection, on view through April 2020, tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation. → Read More
Activists Return to the British Museum to Lead Another "Stolen Goods" Tour
During the event, speakers called for the repatriation of objects acquired through colonialism and an end to sponsorship from the oil company BP. → Read More
Environmental Activists Stage Die-In at Tate Modern, Evoking "Colony Collapse" of Bee Populations
Around 100 activists, led by Extinction Rebellion, rode around the city on bikes as part of the “Critical Swarm," and then collapsed in front of the Tate Modern to symbolize the death of bee colonies. → Read More
Climate Activists Staged a Die-In at London’s Natural History Museum
Beginning on April 15, activist group Extinction Rebellion has staged protests and acts of civil disobedience in central London locations, leading to over 1,000 arrests. → Read More
Kader Attia's Work Holds a Mirror to the World's Injustice
Attia links seemingly disparate things and gives them new meanings by mining history, politics, literature, religion, art, anthropology, and medicine to find echoes everywhere. → Read More
A Book Argues for Dada’s Russian Origins
Unlike its Western iteration, Dadaism in early twentieth century Russia was closely allied to political revolution. → Read More