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Art


Review: Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

Review: Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

The scale is vast, and the message sometimes obvious, but this major exhibition in Manchester shows the celebrated artist can still create genuine intensity, writes Kadish Morris

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Review: Frida Kahlo - The Making of an Icon

Review: Frida Kahlo - The Making of an Icon

Frida Kahlo's image is now so commercialised that her celebrity is in danger of eclipsing her art. The problem with the much-anticipated Tate show about her legacy is that we don’t see enough of her electrifying work, writes Imogen Carter

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Review of the Week: Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations

Review of the Week: Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations

The sculptor’s joyous, organic creations, repurposed and reimagined from everyday objects, speak to each other beautifully in her new exhibition, writes Emily LaBarge

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‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective

‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective

The Turner prize-nominated painter, whose luminous canvases span portraiture, barbershop interiors and the lush landscapes of his Jamaican heritage, talks to Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge

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Review: Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First at the Royal Academy

Review: Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First at the Royal Academy

The huge, energetic paintings of the unstoppable 91-year-old artist, the first female British painter to have a solo exhibition in the RA’s main galleries, are a remarkable celebration of life and memory, writes Emily LaBarge

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Review of the Week: Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Review of the Week: Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

The American photographer’s celebrated portrait series, being shown in full for the first time in the UK, is as raw and intimate on its 40th anniversary as it was when it first appeared, writes Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge

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Review of the week: Nigerian Modernism

Review of the week: Nigerian Modernism

Kadish Morris on an ambitious Tate Modern show of work by over 50 artists who reimagined the country's visual style and identity

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