Chloë Ashby
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Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming 2026), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
Joined August 2013
A mixed bag at the RA… my review of A Story of South Asian Art for @timesculture
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The Royal Academy’s exhibition devoted to Mrinalini Mukherjee and her contemporaries is beautiful but unfocused
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Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson has to have the Cure. For the @guardian I asked a dozen artists to reveal the music that brings out the best in them.
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Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing
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I went to Skagen, a remote fishing port at the northernmost tip of Denmark, in search of Anna Ancher for @thetimes
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She learnt from the artists who flocked to her parents’ hotel in Skagen, was denied the training her male peers received and forged her own path as a painter of radiant interiors
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in today’s @guardian for Betty Parsons at De La Warr Pavilion. Playful paintings and driftwood sculptures (I love the archive photo of the latter crouched on the beach like crabs!) from the legendary gallerist who represented Rothko, Pollock et al
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As a gallerist, she represented painters like Jackson Pollock – but her own work, which she did at weekends, is deliciously bold and breezy
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✨ SALLY MANN ✨ I spoke to the US photographer about the controversy sparked by the images she made of her children in the 1990s, the “main characters” you need to make art, and the stuff that surrounds and hinders it. In this month’s @TheArtNewspaper
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The US photographer, whose images of her naked children sparked controversy, reflects on her life and practice
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The case of the disappearing Amédée Ozenfant! Or, my latest for @timesculture
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He taught Leonora Carrington and founded an art movement with Le Corbusier, so why is Amédée Ozenfant forgotten? In this history, Charles Darwent sets out to rescue him from obscurity
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I wrote about James Delbourgo's history of collecting (and my childhood Beanie Baby stash) for @timesculture
https://t.co/Y9P8J43nhP
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Very happy to have the lead book review in today’s @thetimes ✨ On Judith Mackrell’s lively joint biography of Gwen and Augustus John. Thanks @RobbieTimes! https://t.co/YlaiE6QHrm
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I reviewed Judith Mackrell’s long and lively joint biography of Gwen and Augustus John for @timesculture
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The sibling portrait artists have been re-evaluated since their deaths, says Judith Mackrell in her double biography Artists, Siblings, Visionaries. So who was the greater talent?
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Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely reunite! My review for @guardianculture
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The married sculptors made very different art – hers curvy and colourful, his rickety and angular – but it all hums with life when brought together
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If you ask me, there’s nobody painting modern motherhood quite like Caroline Walker. We chatted ahead of her new show at @HepworthGallery, which focuses on the constellation of mostly female workers providing support during childbirth and early-years care
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From intimate panels to breathtakingly cinematic canvases, Caroline Walker explains how she set out to capture the many sides of motherhood, right down to the first nappy change
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charmed to learn that in early modern french texts on childbirth & churching, the placenta is often called a “gâteau”
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“Gunk is a warm, often funny novel about an unconventional partnership — imagine Ratty and Mole if they had a baby together in 21st-century Brighton.” @HackettLaura – keeping everything crossed the second half of this sentence makes it onto the paperback https://t.co/XQJAAYzTUR
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Saba Sams’s joyous debut novel, Gunk, explores an unconventional relationship in a grotty, chaotic Brighton
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It’s remarkable, really, the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman meeting a man for lunch. My review of the author’s confounding and quietly intense fifth novel is in this week’s @spectator
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It is remarkable the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman joining a man for lunch. His name is Xavier. We don’t know her name, but we do know she’s a successful actress....
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Never has a light switch been so enticing! A plug socket pleasing! A door handle deserving of a turn! I reviewed Do Ho Suh’s exquisite show at Tate Modern, which is as bright and cheery as it is profound, for @timesculture
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The Korean artist brings model houses, domestic fixtures and fittings and brightly coloured passageways to Tate Modern in a playful and haunting show
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I reviewed (and loved) @madeleine_watts’ second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disaster…. In this week’s @spectator
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Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is...
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Not every artist who skyrockets to fame makes it all the way into space…. I interviewed Amoako Boafo ahead of his first U.K. solo show at @Gagosian for @guardian
https://t.co/P2cdoQVjip
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The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player
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