Painting
A spotlight on painting – emerging and established artists and their exhibitions, explored by the Wallpaper* team
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Double take: Mehdi Ghadyanloo uses the art of illusion to reveal truthsBy Ali Morris Last updated
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Mary Obering paintings exhibited in Los Angeles for the first timeBy Alexandra Pechman Last updated
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Matthew Day Jackson goes galactic with NetJetsThe American artist collaborated with the private aviation enterprise to design its VIP lounge at Art Basel
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Dear Calder, dear Kelly: the friendship of two great artists a generation apartBy Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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David Adjaye and Adam Pendleton: a meeting of minds in Hong KongPaintings by American artist Adam Pendleton are staged in conversation with sculptural works by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye at Pace Hong Kong
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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At Blenheim Palace, Cecily Brown confronts the gore and glory of English heritageIn the first show by a British artist at Blenheim Palace, Cecily Brown takes a nostalgic, conflicting and grisly view of Britain’s past and future
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Peripatetic Georgian artist Andro Wekua on work, war and wanderingBy Sophie Lovell Last updated
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Not Vital in conversation with Hans Ulrich ObristSpeaking to Hans Ulrich Obrist ahead of a solo show at Thaddaeus Ropac, London, artist Not Vital describes his youth in the bucolic Engadin Valley, his performative self-portraiture, and the freedom of not being an architect
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Underwater art exhibition on Porquerolles island is submerged in intrigueOn view until 17 October at Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles, sub-aquatic group show ‘The Imaginary Sea’ (La Mer Imaginaire) frames the sea as a source of inspiration, imagination, longing and loss
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako BoafoReopening for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora is staging epic exhibitions by Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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Mickalene Thomas on Black beauty, eroticism and powerMickalene Thomas’ four-city exhibition series ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ at Lévy Gorvy galleries is a deep-dive into the power of the Black female body
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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At home with artist Julie MehretuHere, Camille Okhio discusses myths and motherhood with American artist Julie Mehretu ahead of her major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
By Camille Okhio Published
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Artists square up to racial injustice via InstagramBy Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Disruptive nonagenarian Julio Le Parc is still making wavesWe caught up (virtually) with the trailblazing Argentine artist to discuss bureaucracy, defying categorisation and his latest wave of optokinetic art
By Benoit Loiseau Published
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A Marrakech exhibition takes a radical view of identity and social unrestFollowing an international descent of visitors for 1-54 art fair, a group exhibition at MACAAL surveys the politics of identity through 12 global voices
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Ahead of his Hong Kong show, Bosco Sodi meditates on painting as therapyOn view from 13 February, the Mexican artist’s solo exhibition at Axel Vervoordt is the culmination of a two-week residency in the city
By Catherine Shaw Published
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Alex Israel judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2020He runs a sunglasses brand, he’s released a feature-length teen romcom, and his paintings are held in collections at major museums around the world; Alex Israel is a multihyphenate who has blurred the boundaries between High Art and Pop product, commerce and concept
By Charlotte Jansen Published
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Bharti Kher escapes to Somerset in search of solitudeThe New Delhi-based artist presents an exhibition of new installation, painting and sculpture work following her 2017 residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Guggenheim Bilbao offers new perspectives on Gerhard Richter’s seascapesBy Elly Parsons Published
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Sarah Morris cuts through the noise at White CubeIt’s a homecoming of sorts for the Kent-born, New York-based artist, who debuts new paintings and her first ever sculptural work at the gallery’s Bermondsey space
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Anj Smith: making sense of desire and anxiety through a painter’s forensic languageBy Charlotte Jansen Published
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Marc Newson, Erdem and Don McCullin immortalised in hyperrealist paintingsBy Elly Parsons Published
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Birthday buzz and secret messages at Takashi Murakami retrospectiveBy Hadani Ditmars Published
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A la carte: Paula Scher’s American maps chart more than just territoryBy Ann Binlot Published


