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Monday, 5 June 2023

Artlyst: The Art Diary June 2023

My June diary for Artlyst has been published with mentions of exhibitions at Pallant House (Gwen John), Wycliffe College (Marc Chagall), Teatro Peon Contreras (Louis Carreon), City Art Centre (Peter Howson), Ben Uri (Peter Howson and Laura Knight), Laing Gallery (Pre-Raphaelites and British Impressionists), Museo Spazio Pubblica (Anna Masters), Museum of Contemporary Art (Cecilia Vicuña), Hastings Contemporary (Yun Hyong-keon), Gathering (Soojin Kang), Peterborough Cathedral (Marc Bratcher), Maureen Paley (Reverend Joyce McDonald), Ammerdown Centre (Group show):

'Gwen John's conversion to Catholicism in 1913 and its effect on her art has not yet been fully recognised, but ‘Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris’ at Pallant House represents another step along the way. John’s conversion meant that she searched for new methods with which to bring faith to life in her art. Art and faith were already being explored to a significant extent in Paris and, in her catalogue foreword for her solo exhibition in London in 1926, she quoted the leading modern French religious artist, Maurice Denis, who had championed the joining of art and Catholicism in experimental ways. She also admired the work of Georges Rouault, the pre-eminent Roman Catholic artist of his time, and Paul Cezanne, who sought to explore the eternal element of the Universe, the “Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus”. Additionally, in Meuden, where she lived, she was a neighbour to the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (who regularly held study circles at his home attended by significant artists), being a close friend of his sister-in-law Véra Oumançoff.'

See also the following: Gwen John; Marc Chagall; Louis Carreon; Peter Howson; and The Pre-Raphaelites.

My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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Glen Hansard - Brother's Keeper.
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Thursday, 9 July 2020

Artlyst: Has The Word 'Master' Reached Its Sell-By Date?

My latest piece for Artlyst is a thoughtpiece on the subject of our continued use of the word 'master' in relation to artists:

'Barbara Kruger said, ‘I work with pictures and words because they have the power to determine who we are and who we aren’t.’ Museums are increasingly and rightly reviewing their collections; the invisible collections of uncollected works as well as the visible collections of works previous generations deemed collectable. We are all the richer for the untold stories and little-seen works that have emerged from such reviews. We will benefit similarly by reviewing and subverting the assumptions that exist within the words and phrases used to describe the value of art if that process also enables those untold stories and little-seen works to be seen and heard.'

My other Artlyst pieces are:

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Arcade Fire (featuring Mavis Staples) - I Give You Power.
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