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Photography’s Past and Future Hung in Tense Harmony at Paris Photo

Under the glass dome of the Grand Palais, it sometimes felt like walking within three different centuries at once.

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Henry Roberts

“Thirst” at The Wellcome Collection Dives Deep into the Politics of Water

“Thirst” at The Wellcome Collection Dives Deep into the Politics of Water

There are beautiful moments throughout, but the exhibition at times feels like an uncomfortable augury of our water-scarce future.

13.11.2025 2

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Henry Roberts

Zofia Rydet’s Attempt to Photograph Every Home in Poland Is at The Photographers’ Gallery

Zofia Rydet’s Attempt to Photograph Every Home in Poland Is at The Photographers’ Gallery

'Sociological Record' captures the intimate realities of Polish domestic life during a period of rapid social and political change.

05.11.2025 4

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Incomprehensible or Genius: A New Exhibition in Norway Showcases Picasso’s Divisive Late Work

Picasso, who more than any other artist is synonymous with reinvention, did not return to childhood so much as discover it fully for the first time at...

05.09.2025 3

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At London’s Garden Museum, Cecil Beaton’s Botanical Obsessions

Catch this exhibition while it’s still in bloom.

13.08.2025 3

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At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite

It’s an excellent concept, hampered only by the weight of its potential.

07.08.2025 10

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Shadow, Light and Lemons: Catch Ella Kruglyanskaya in London

For all its intriguing melodrama, Kruglyanskaya’s work winks at the viewer, showing off its artifice and reminding us that we’re looking at a...

14.04.2025 8

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“Resistance” at Turner Contemporary Spotlights the Faces of Dissent

The relationship between photography and dissent isn’t always straightforward; it depends on who is holding the camera and how those in the frame...

07.04.2025 5

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Don’t Miss: Peter Hujar’s Liberation and Grief at Raven Row

Simply put, this exhibition is one of London’s finest in recent years.

26.03.2025 9

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The Other de Beauvoir: Remembering a Forgotten Talent at London’s Amar Gallery

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous sister.

10.02.2025 7

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‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’: Letizia Battaglia’s Legacy of Violence On View in London

Disperazione di un figlio (Desperation of a son), Palermo, 1976. © Courtesy Archivio Letizia Battaglia The specter of death looms large in Letizia...

18.12.2024 5

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Peter Kennard and the Art of Dissent at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

How should art respond to the great evils of our time? When faced with moral and existential problems—of bombs and their profiteers, of poverty and...

07.09.2024 4

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Henry Roberts