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From our networks: Minor Attractions returns to London 14–18 October 2025

For its third edition at The Mandrake, the fair is back bigger and more diverse than ever — doubling in size with 70+ international galleries and a week-long programme.

Free and open to all → RSVP at minorattractions.com

Review: Ren Light Pan at Lyles & King, New York | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 23h

Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude
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Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude

News: Title and preliminary list of artists announced for Diriyah Biennale 2026 | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced the theme and preliminary list of artists for the third edition of the Biennale artreview.com/title-and-pr...

The Biennale’s third iteration is set to open on 30 January 2026

Feature: Inuuteq Storch – The Celestial and the Profane | ArtReview

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Why the Greenlandic artist thinks photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland artreview.com/inuuteq-stor...

The Greenlandic artist explains why photography is uniquely suited to telling the story of his homeland, ahead of his exhibition on 9 October at MoMA PS1, New York

National Museum of Korea Faces Criticism Over Collaboration With BTS Hitmaker

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

The museum posted a photograph on social media of its director, Yoo Hong-jun, alongside HYBE chairman Bang Si-hyuk, who is currently under criminal investigation artreview.com/national-mus...

A collaboration between the National Museum Foundation of Korea and HYBE, the company behind k-pop band BTS and others, has been criticised

Review: Mirror Matter by Aubrey Levinthal at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 1d

The artist’s wonky, playful paintings hide within them a layer of existential ambivalence artreview.com/aubrey-levin...

In the artist’s recent exhibition, she turns the motif of tupperware into something existential

Joy Gregory & Philip Miller’s Observations | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

How an artwork can be deeply political without being didactic artreview.com/joy-gregory-...

The art critic Tom Denman dissects a work by Joy Gregory & Philip Miller, currently on show at the Whitechapel Gallery

‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb

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Zander Leissle @alexanderleissle.bsky.social · 2d

A gorgeous new poem by Ralf Webb is out now: ‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’ artreview.com/two-horses-a...

‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’

Opinion: What Do We Actually Want From Literary Adaptations? | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

When taking on a beloved text, you decide between uproar or fanaticism – both the fundamental traits of culture today
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The author Helen Charman on Emerald Fennell’s ’Wuthering Heights’, Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’

Review: 41st EVA International – It Takes a Village, Limerick | ArtReview

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

The 41st edition, ‘It Takes a Village’, might just pull off its somewhat hokey aspirations
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The 41st edition of the biennial, might just pull off its somewhat hokey aspirations, writes Irish critic Declan Long

Review: Soft You by Anthea Hamilton at Fondazione Memmo, Rome | ArtReview

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 2d

Last year, the artist staged an adaptation of Othello. Now she returns to the Venetian general with ‘Soft You’, expanding on the play’s ideas of identity, perception and fear
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Anthea Hamilton’s new exhibition is on view in Rome until 2 November

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 4d

Yeah, the devaluing of collections work (and museums work more broadly) has been a worrying trend - your video reminded me of some criticisms of the recent opening of the V&A Storehouse: artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

‘Two Horses’: A Poem by Ralf Webb

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 3d

Each month, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Ralf Webb chose the film With Horses (2023) by Maeve Brennan
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‘Girls, I thought, understand / The attitudes of animals in motion. / Girls could reveal the nature of happy horses’

How Kerry James Marshall Restored Black Figures to the Western Canon

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 5d

The ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement; Velázquezian references; Sleeping Beauty – it’s all there in Marshall’s monumental painted worlds
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The ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement; Velázquezian references; Sleeping Beauty – it’s all there in Marshall’s monumental painted worlds

Bangkok Art Biennale announces theme and artists for 2026 edition

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 5d

The Bangkok Art Biennale has announced the theme and an initial list of participating artists for its fifth edition, Angels and Mara artreview.com/bangkok-art-...

The fifth edition of the Biennale is titled ‘Angels and Mara’

Frivolous Power: Rewriting Marie Antoinette

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 6d

Why Marie Antoinette remains so culturally potent
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Framing the dethroned French queen as an early master of image-making, this show reminds us why Marie Antoinette remains so culturally potent

Hayley Millar Baker: The Scale of Eternity

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 6d

Timings and tropes of horror film open a portal to Eternity in the work of Hayley Millar Baker
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Timings and tropes of horror film open a portal to Eternity in the work of Hayley Millar Baker

Federico García Lorca’s Recycled History

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

A new show of 13 artists considers the parallels between the Spanish writer’s time and our own
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This show of 13 artists considers the parallels between the Spanish writer’s time and our own

ArtReview October 2025 Issue Out Now

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

The October issue of ArtReview is out now – featuring Lucy Raven, John Smith, Inuuteq Storch, Joy Gregory and Philip Miller; columns on unpaid work and gangster capitalism; reviews and more
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Featuring Lucy Raven, John Smith, Inuuteq Storch, Joy Gregory and Philip Miller; columns on unpaid work and gangster capitalism; reviews and more

Lucy Raven: A Controlled Explosion

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

Lucy Raven captures the undoing and remaking of the American West’s landscape, and why the process is both simpler and more complicated than it appears
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Raven captures the undoing and remaking of the American West’s landscape, and why the process is both simpler and more complicated than it appears

Qatar Foundation launches new museum dedicated to M.F. Husain

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

The Qatar Foundation will open the Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum artreview.com/qatar-founda...

The Qatar Foundation will inaugurate the museum on 28 November in Qatar’s Education City

Eco Exhibitions Won’t Save Us

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

Artists and institutions seem content to merely ‘address’, ‘engage with’ or ‘respond to’ the climate crisis. It’s time for a concerted shift towards action
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Artists and institutions seem content to merely ‘address’, ‘engage with’ or ‘respond to’ the climate crisis. It’s time for a concerted shift towards action

The Artworld That Cried Wolf

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 7d

While squabbles over the merits of identity-driven art abound, real world powers in the US are threatening any diversity progress of recent decades
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While squabbles over the merits of identity-driven art abound, real world powers in the US are threatening any diversity progress of recent decades

The 10 Exhibitions to See in October 2025

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 8d

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from London and Paris to Jakarta and Lagos
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Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from London and Paris to Jakarta and Lagos