Adrian Searle
@SearleAdrian
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Art critic, writer, other. Definitely other.
Joined June 2013
A funfair ride to the end of the world: Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review
theguardian.com
Resistance is futile in the sumptuous colours of Phillipson’s entertaining apocalypse, filled with colossal metal creatures, agitated animal eyes and a giant celestial peach
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Comical, cartoonish, wonky-nostrilled brilliance – Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty review
theguardian.com
With his galumphing caricatures, spurting paint and quivering doodles, the art brut master caught the hectic rhythm of the postwar world – and his street scenes make you want to jump right in
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Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento died this morning. Uncountable dinners and drinks, all those paintings and films and collages and good friendship and gossip and enthusiasms flowed. Winded.
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Apocalypse now: John Akomfrah’s The Unintended Beauty of Disaster
theguardian.com
Lisson Gallery, LondonWith a relentless video onslaught, Akomfrah confronts colonialism, slavery, migrants and the obliteration of the natural world with astonishing results
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‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review
theguardian.com
Gagosian Britannia, LondonPart of a year-long residency at the gallery, the artist’s initial show, with Coke vending machines, rubbish bags and cow’s tongues a-lolling, is dispiriting
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Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air
theguardian.com
The Swiss artist takes us on an effortless tour of Sea-turquoise glass horses, watercolour ocean sunsets and teetering DayGlo canvasses
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'I need a doctor!' – the filthy, furious, fun-filled art of Vanessa Baird
theguardian.com
Available onlineEven the quiet moments are disturbing in the Norwegian artist’s debut UK show, which bursts with grotesque scenes of claustrophobic household life
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I really like this work: Jennifer Packer review – paintings that creep up on you
theguardian.com
Serpentine Gallery, LondonFriendship, loss and the everyday populate Packer’s canvases, but they are full of disquieting detail
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Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul review – moments of horror
theguardian.com
Royal Academy, LondonMunch’s paintings of troubled women are echoed dramatically in Emin’s clamouring images of herself as she struggles to exorcise her demons
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Apocalyptic goo and Detroit in beats: Jarman award 2020 is shared
theguardian.com
Jenn Nkiru’s standout film of Detroit’s techno history evokes the rhythm of fractured black lives in a show with no winner but plenty to mull over
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Meet Ripley, 8 week old Bediwhippet, latest addition to the family. Mabel ( our whippet-poodle cross) is a bit jealous), but they’ll work it out.
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The Donald is toast *apologies to my prophetic Welsh Rarebit.
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Story time:
Something to enjoy as this crazy week hobbles to its end. @SearleAdrian reading from Helen Marten’s The Boiled in Between. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/neiIObJrpX
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Strap-ons, style and self-invention: Zanele Muholi – review
theguardian.com
With provocative images of lesbian empowerment and gender play, the photographer celebrates the resilience, style and creativity of South Africa’s queer community
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After Backlash, Philip Guston Retrospective to Open in 2022
nytimes.com
Four museums had delayed the touring exhibition until 2024 because of concerns about works that depict Ku Klux Klansmen.
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The suspension & ‘disciplining’ of curator Mark Godfey by @Tate is an utter disgrace.
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Does anyone know a work, mid-1980s, shown in Berkley CA, in which a suspended bag of honey breaks thru its membrane & spills on the floor below? Artist, work? Asking for a friend...
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Bruce Nauman review – 'I have no doubt of his greatness'
theguardian.com
Featuring funny walks, shouting, inertia, banality, sex, detritus and an abject clown, this retrospective of the pioneering video artist’s career is a disturbing thrill
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