Painting
A spotlight on painting – emerging and established artists and their exhibitions, explored by the Wallpaper* team
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako Boafo
Reopening 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 power
Mickalene 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 Mehretu
Here, 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 Instagram
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Disruptive nonagenarian Julio Le Parc is still making waves
We 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 unrest
Following 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 therapy
On 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 2020
He 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 solitude
The 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 seascapes
By Elly Parsons Published
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Sarah Morris cuts through the noise at White Cube
It’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 language
By Charlotte Jansen Published
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Marc Newson, Erdem and Don McCullin immortalised in hyperrealist paintings
By Elly Parsons Published
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Birthday buzz and secret messages at Takashi Murakami retrospective
By Hadani Ditmars Published
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A la carte: Paula Scher’s American maps chart more than just territory
By Ann Binlot Published

