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The Guardian
18-07-2025
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- The Guardian
Alien landscapes, Arctic artists and pioneers of pleasure – the week in art
Folkestone Triennial: How Lies the Land?Dorothy Cross, Katie Paterson, Cooking Sections and many more take part in a sprawling seaside summer art special. Various venues, Folkestone, Kent, from 19 July until 19 October Alien Shores A landscape-themed group show with Georgia O'Keeffe, David Hockney and Glenn Brown among the artists enjoying the fresh air. White Cube Bermondsey, London, until 7 September Panorama: New Views of a City A recreation of Robert Barker's 18th-century panorama of the Edinburgh skyline, with contemporary responses by Lucas Priest and Amanda Thomson. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, until 21 December Arctic Expressions The art and material culture of Arctic peoples is celebrated by this British Museum touring show. Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, until 28 September Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s Works on paper by the revered artist record her inner life of dream and memory. Courtauld Gallery, London until 14 September John Knuth's striking paintings aren't made by the artist putting in hours with a pointillist brush. His works are created using flies regurgitating a mixture of coloured paint and sugar water on to canvasses. After he lost his home and entire archive in the California wildfires earlier this year, his work has taken on a new perspective. Read more here. The Bayeux tapestry is the most engaging depiction ever made of a mighty battle AI, social media and virtual identities are transforming our understanding of beauty A new 10,000 sq ft London arts centre aims to spotlight global majority voices A show of tactile art curated by blind people aims to challenge 'ocularcentrism' Plans for the corporate rebranding of a London tube line dismayed our critic Podcaster George the Poet joined an initiative to make masterpieces more accessible Jean-François Millet's masterpiece The Angelus electrified modern art Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion Photographer Paz Errázuriz's tender images outraged Chilean society A new art trail through the City of London is full of echoes of ancient ritual The Shore at Egmond-aan-Zee by Jacob van Ruisdael, circa 1675 Seaside views from the 17th century are rare. It shows how precocious Dutch art and life were in the 1600s that Van Ruisdael depicts people visiting the shore for fun – strolling on the sands, enjoying the strong sea breeze, flirting to the splash of the waves. Of course, they don't strip off and swim – the figures in the water are fishing folk. Sea bathing wouldn't become fashionable until about a century later, and the hedonism of modern beach life would gradually appear in art, from impressionist Normandy to Picasso and Matisse on the Riviera. All of that lies in the future here – and to be honest those looming clouds don't augur well for a day at the seaside. But these beachgoers are pioneers of pleasure. National Gallery, London If you don't already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here. If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@
New York Times
20-06-2025
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- New York Times
A Science-Minded Artist Shrinks the Universe to Human Scale
Katie Paterson's work has always been about Earth, and the great vastness beyond. A Scottish multidisciplinary artist, she has worked with scientists across the globe on exhaustively researched projects, including The Future Library, an anthology of 100 previously unpublished books written by some of the 21st century's most celebrated writers. In 2022, astronomers helped her count the times the sun has risen since the Earth was formed — to the most accurate level scientists can — for a piece titled '—there lay the Days between—.' Years earlier, she had worked with scientists specializing in light at the firm Osram to develop lightbulbs that simulate the lunar glow. And yet, 'I never want to go into space,' Paterson said in a video interview. Asked whether her works are portraits of Earth or of us, she said, 'It's going to be us.' 'If all those cosmic sequences hadn't happened, we wouldn't be here breathing and talking together,' she explained. Ultimately, she said, in all her work, she has always been trying to 'get a little bit closer to that understanding of quite how precious life is.' That lifetime pursuit underpins three current projects: a series of paintings on view in an exhibition in Cumbria, England, and 'Afterlife,' which will soon be installed at the Folkestone Triennial 2025 in Kent, England; and 'True North,' which has taken Paterson from Japan to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, where she has just completed a residency. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
