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Artists: Thao Nguyen Phan – ‘My Reflections On The History Of Vietnam’ (Tate)

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Step inside the studio of artist Thao Nguyen Phan and discover her mesmerising, poetic work. Through video, paintings and sculpture, Phan explores the historical and ecological issues facing her homeland Vietnam, while speaking to broader ideas around tradition, ideology, ritual and environmental change.

Her recent projects have expanded on ‘the beauty and suffering’ of the Mekong River, which runs through Tibet, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia before meeting the sea on the coast of Vietnam. Phan’s latest moving image work First Rain, Brise Soleil continues this exploration of the Mekong, proposing a new way of being that draws on indigenous knowledge and respect for the ecosystem.

You can see Phan’s artworks on display at Tate St Ives until 2 May 2022 https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate…

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Artists: The Watercolor Drawings Of John Yun

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Art Exhibits: Australian Painter Jeffrey Smart

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‘Suddenly I will see something that seizes me – a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows, and I send up a prayer because I know I have seen a picture.’

JEFFREY SMART The year 2021 marks one hundred years since the birth of acclaimed Australian artist Jeffrey Smart. This major exhibition celebrates and commemorates this significant centenary. One of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Smart sought inspiration from the world around him – looking to the environment of urban and industrial modernity – which he transformed through his imaginative sense of theatre and intimate understanding of geometry and composition.

These potent and intriguing images have become emblematic of 20th and 21st century urban experience. Building on the foundational work already undertaken on Smart, this exhibition will bring fresh perspectives to his artistic contribution so that his remarkable legacy will be kept alive in the present. Curators: Dr Deborah Hart, Henry Dalrymple Head of Australian Art and Dr Rebecca Edwards, Sid & Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design

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Art Fair Walking Tour: ‘2022 Art Capital Paris’ (4K)

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Art Capital Paris is a current art fair bringing together more than 2,000 artists from around the world in the capital and allowing encounters between the public, the artists and the works. Each edition welcomes more than 40,000 visitors from all over France. Canceled in 2021 due to the health situation, the Art Capital de Paris fair returns from February 16 to 20, 2022!

For more than 100 years, this fair has taken place in the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, although this year, due to works, it will take place in the Grand Palais Éphémère – located on the Champ de Mars, facing the Eiffel Tower. . 

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20th Century: Was Francis Bacon The Best Painter?

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Is Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the 20th century?

Triptych 1986-7 (detail)

It was not an enormous surprise that an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy that is supported by Christie’s should swiftly be followed by an announcement of the auction house offering a large work for sale. Triptych 1986-7, whose central panel depicts the artist’s partner John Edwards, with Woodrow Wilson on one side and the assassinated Trotsky’s study on the other, is being offered in the sale that takes place on 1 March with an estimate of £35m–£55m. Nor is it a surprise that an auction house should drum up interest in one of their lots using superlatives. But Rakewell was a little taken aback by the claim on Instagram from a Christie’s specialist that ‘Francis Bacon is unmistakably on of the greatest painters of the 20th century.’

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Cultural Views: Tattooed Freight Trucks Of Nepal

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Throughout Nepal, large freight trucks painted by artists provide special visual entertainment for travelers along the highways and dangerous mountain roads of the Himalayas. These creatively painted scenes and sayings can be clever, witty and even profound – offering food for thought to the viewer. Former Peace Corps volunteer and UC San Diego lecturer emeritus Ron Ranson, along with filmmaker Sudarson Karki, document the Nepali custom of painting trucks with icons of their country, spiritual life, European sports teams and even major movies like “Titanic.”

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Profiles: A Day With Plein Air Painter Mark Shasta

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Shakespeare & Company: Author Philip Hoare On ‘Albert & The Whale’ (2021)

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