At the Slade, she was the one you always paid attention to: she took you seriously and cared deeply about art and the people trying to make it, says writer Dale Berning Sawa
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A sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley stands under the harbor wall on January 13, 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
How many times have you heard the words, “We just decided to move,” over the last year? Isolation requirements, lockdowns, and shut down city centers have transformed major cities like New York and London into temporary ghost towns, and many artists and art world professionals have joined the flight.
Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021 s best art, architecture and photography Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan
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Screaming apes, isolated in cages – and that’s just the people. Bacon was the most atheist of artists and his vision of humans and other animals is relentlessly Darwinian, so don’t look for cuteness or sentiment in his ruthless dissections of our nature. This is a sideways look at a modern master.
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Provocateur, founder of Art Brut, or raw art, Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) embraced the arbitrary and irrational, using crude materials and working with an ironic rejection of skill and finesse. Immersed in French intellectual and artistic life, the show focuses on both Dubuffet’s own work and his extensive collection of outsider art, in the first major UK exhibition of this complex, fascinating artist in more than 50 years.