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Vian Sora Paints Life’s Precarious Cycles With a Defiant Beauty
Osman Can Yerebakan · Elephant April 29, 2025The artist’s new exhibition in New York expands the scale of disarmingly erratic paintings. Vian Sora was hovering somewhere above the Persian Gulf last November. After the plane left behind... -
The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia
Digby Warde-Aldam · The Spectator April 26, 2025On the centenary of his birth, we remember visionary artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose heavies, the 'Saint-Just Vigilantes’, once vandalised the offices of Apollo magazine Not many artists engage in... -
Written on Tablets of Stonypath
Alec Finlay · The World of Interiors April 23, 2025The poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay was a man of fragile disposition and fixed – but not always logical – views. He made model toys that weren’t to be... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: The groundbreaking artist and poet who created ‘Little Sparta’
Tom Lubbock · The Independent April 21, 2025The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet and artist: born Nassau, Bahamas 28 October 1925; CBE... -
Dare you journey to Little Sparta — a point of no return?
Natalie Whittle · Financial Times April 18, 2025On the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay — poet, iconoclast, social revolutionary and maritime obsessive — his Scottish garden is being celebrated as his greatest work of... -
Dallas’ Art Fairs Open With Slow-Burn Sales and Museum Acquisitions That Signal Regional Potential
Elisa Carollo · Observer April 11, 2025From important museum acquisitions to six-figure sales, the Dallas Art Fair and its boutique counterpart, the Dallas Invitational, show the city’s collectors are serious players. 'Among the fair’s more established... -
The New York Shows You Need to See this Spring
Sam Falb · Elephant April 4, 2025David Nolan: Sky From Below (March 7-May 3) Flying above her homeland of Iraq, Vian Sora was inspired to develop a new series of paintings based on the familiar vista... -
Monumental sculptures by Chakaia Booker presented at the National Gallery of Art
ArtDaily April 5, 2025WASHINGTON, DC .- For over four decades, Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) has cut, coiled, and contorted used tires, transforming this industrial waste into abstract sculpture. Gravitating toward found, weathered tires,... -
Erwin Pfrang
Donald Kuspit · Artforum March 26, 2025“The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth,” Theodor Adorno wrote. “For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject.” Pain announced itself quite clearly in... -
Artist's Talk: Vian Sora and Andrew Woolbright
Brooklyn Rail | March 25, 2025 March 25, 2025Artist Vian Sora joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation. -
Vian Sora with Omar Kholeif
Brooklyn Rail March 1, 2025Over a period of days Dr. Omar Kholeif and the artist Vian Sora corresponded via voice notes that they sent back and forth in a call and response manner. Kholeif... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay review – the visionary Scottish poet-artist’s mind in closeup
Laura Cumming · The Guardian March 23, 2025Words and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, which are ideally displayed in this intimate centenary show Star/Steer... -
Who was Ian Hamilton Finlay? — Scotland’s greatest (unknown) artist
Magnus Linklater · The Times March 1, 2025Nine international exhibitions will celebrate the centenary of the creator who was revered for his rebellious nature but had a gentler soul at heart H e was the greatest Scottish...
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