Painting
A spotlight on painting – emerging and established artists and their exhibitions, explored by the Wallpaper* team
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Cape Cod exhibition explores legacy of artist David WojnarowiczIn Cape Cod, exhibition ‘Tidal Motion’ explores the legacy of artist David Wojnarowicz. Though the artist’s life was cut short by HIV/AIDs in 1992, his work continues to inspire a generation of contemporary artists
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Artist’s Palate: Sean Scully’s pancakesFlip through Irish-born artist Sean Scully's dynamic pancake recipe, as featured in our monthly Artist’s Palate feature
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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All American: Stuart Davis’ brand of modernism takes over New YorkBy Julie Baumgardner Last updated
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South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere at Frieze 2018By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Visual poems: Spencer Finch’s abstract watercolours arrive at Lisson GalleryBy Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Puzzle master: Sarah Morris plays mind games in her latest showBy Nadja Sayej Last updated
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Black and white?: Sean Kelly showcases the hyperreal paintings of James WhiteBy Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Katharina Grosse plunges Gagosian Britannia Street in colourBy Michael Yeung Last updated
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Double take: Mehdi Ghadyanloo uses the art of illusion to reveal truthsBy Ali Morris 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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A double bill of Bernard Frize hits all the right notesIt’s been over a decade since the artist last exhibited in France. Now, a duo of Paris exhibitions at Perrotin and Centre Pompidou are casting his four decades-long painting practice in a new light
By Emily McDermott 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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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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Jean-Michel Othoniel decodes the secret language of flowers in the Louvre’s collectionsThe artist has published a new book about the flowers within the storied Paris museum’s art collection, alongside an intervention of new paintings in its glass-roofed French sculpture hall
By TF Chan Published
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Guggenheim Bilbao offers new perspectives on Gerhard Richter’s seascapesBy Elly Parsons Published