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Another kind of life, another essential viewing

April 6, 2018by lafeeculturelle 2 Comments

20 photographers on the margins of society  I very much enjoyed Another Kind of Life at Barbican, a show of 20 photographers from the 50s to today representing “disenfranchised communities”. Even […]

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Contemporary Art, Now on view - London, Photography, Video

Tate Modern Special

November 1, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

To celebrate the new Tate Modern opening – have you been yet? – la Fée Culturelle went through her archives of blog posts on exhibitions at Tate Modern since 2012. […]

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Abstract art, African art, Conceptual art, Contemporary Art, Expressionism, Fashion, Installation Art, Modern art, Performance art, Photography, Pop art, Sculpture

Giacometti at Tate: a significant sculptor in the universe

November 1, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Works stem from Existentialism; looking at man’s significance in a meaningless universe Giacometti had a revelation as he was leaving a cinema in Montparnasse in December 1945. As the screen […]

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Abstract art, African art, Modern art, Sculpture

Le Petit Soutine in the Courtauld Gallery

October 31, 2017by lafeeculturelle 2 Comments

The Courtauld Gallery reconciled me with Soutine Courtauld Gallery, within The Courtauld Institute of Art, is known for its exceptional permanent collection of impressionist and post-impressionists, as well as its […]

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Expressionism, Modern art

The sculpture magician Rachel Whiteread  

October 18, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Rachel Whiteread’s world in a single room at Tate Britain I was immediately attracted by the nod to Minimalism and architecture, and the raw use of basic materials by British […]

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Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Sculpture

Viva Venice 🎭

September 17, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

One week in May 2017: 40 country pavilions; six collateral events and other pavilions; seven temporary exhibitions, 120km walked, and 10 ice creams (various flavours). A bank holiday weekend in […]

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Abstract art, Conceptual art, Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Performance art, Photography, Sculpture, Video

Walker Evans, la beauté de l’américanité banale

July 11, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Evans, le photographe du vernaculaire américain Présenté actuellement au Centre Pompidou, Walker Evans (1903-75) est le photographe du vernaculaire. Il est difficile de s’accorder sur une seule définition du vernaculaire. […]

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Contemporary Art, Modern art, Photography

Hockney’s Hotel California in New York

June 28, 2017by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Decades of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, prints, photography and video at the Centre Pompidou Perhaps not surprisingly, I am fonder of David Hockney’s paintings in California, to which he was drawn […]

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Contemporary Art, Video

Robert Rauschenberg six-decade experiments

January 29, 2017by lafeeculturelle 1 Comment

  First posthumous retrospective covering six decades of Rauschenberg The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding the first posthumous retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, […]

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Abstract art, Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Performance art, Photography, Pop art, Sculpture

Elton John’s Radical Eye

December 22, 2016by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen”, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. For a few days in London, we […]

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Abstract art, Contemporary Art, Dada, Modern art, Photography

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