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Rosanna Hawkins

Opinion

> 2 years ago

Stargazing

Bailey’s latest exhibition, which opened in February at the NPG, has reopened an age-old debate about how what counts as art.

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> 2 years ago

Making Painting

A new exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary pairs Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler with JMW Turner

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< 3 years ago

Dennis Oppenheim and Stephen Cripps

This autumn the Henry Moore Institute combines an exhibition of works by renowned American performance artist Dennis Oppenheim (1938 – 2011) with a display of archival material from lesser-known British artist, Stephen Cripps (1952-82).

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