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Eliza Goodpasture

@elizag.bsky.social
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Art historian Writing about art, books & culture Editor at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at @artukdotorg.bsky.social (Drawings) www.elizagoodpasture.com

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Beauty, terror and awe 🌊 Discover how artists channel the sea through drawing 👉 buff.ly/Li0UxIR 'Sea Rock – Line Drawing' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk
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Beauty, terror, awe: drawing the sea | Art UK
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New story ✏️ Read 'Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group' 👉 buff.ly/BbYLD6l 'Dora Carrington' by Dora Carrington (1893–1932) 📷 National Portrait Gallery
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Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group | Art UK
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Georgia Louise Luckhurst @georgialouluck.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
my piece for @artukdotorg.bsky.social up now - on jenny saville and motherhood artuk.org/discover/sto...
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Jenny Saville's drawings in the long shadow of the Renaissance Madonna | Art UK
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
From Instagram feeds to Victorian sketches, interiors have long reflected changing taste. Artistic homes were captured through watercolours and drawings. Read more 👉 buff.ly/pftTR6p 🧑‍🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) 📷 Russell Cotes
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The aesthetic artistic interior: sketching the Victorian home | Art UK
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
'Exquisite corpse' was surrealism’s Mad Libs ✏️ Discover how this playful drawing game shaped modern creativity in this new story 👉 buff.ly/l3S25JX 🧑‍🎨 Dinos Chapman (b.1962) and Jake Chapman (b.1966) © the artists. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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The exquisite corpse: the Mad Libs of Surrealist drawing | Art UK
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Celia Graham-Dixon @celiagrahamdixon.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A joy to write about the Courtauld's 'Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s' display for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. You can catch it until September 14th. Thanks so much @elizag.bsky.social for the commission! artuk.org/discover/sto...
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A voyage with no destination: Louise Bourgeois's 1960s drawings | Art UK
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
So excited to publish an interview with the iconic Louise Giovanelli in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this month!
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Happy birthday Beatrix Potter 🎂 Before Beatrix Potter's classic literary figures, she had a strong interest in the wondrous world of mushrooms 🍄 Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 🧑‍🎨 Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 Armitt Museum and Library
Cluster of yellowish-brown mushrooms growing on a dark, weathered tree branch against a plain background.Detailed botanical illustration of three brown mushrooms with textured caps and long stems on a beige background.Detailed botanical illustration of orange-capped mushrooms growing among green grass and small plants on a beige background.
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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Can confirm that Eliza is an absolute DREAM to work with. If you work on drawings, get in touch with her and the ArtUK team asap ✨
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
What can drawings reveal about desire? For lesbian artists throughout history, sketchbooks have been safe places to explore intimacy, identity, and longing in ways public artworks couldn't. Read more in this new story 👉 buff.ly/NCyYICO 🧑‍🎨 Gwen John (1876–1939) 📷 @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social
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The sapphic sketchbook: what drawings can reveal about desire | Art UK
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A really exciting interview in Tandem – Joanne Leonard is 85 and only just getting global recognition for her incredible feminist photography and collage practices. We spoke with her ahead of her first UK show at HackelBury Gallery.
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
'Just like a medieval saint' 19th-century artist, author and philanthropist Francesca Alexander has largely disappeared from history, but she was a celebrity during her lifetime. Read on 👉 buff.ly/oTxZrKc 🧑‍🎨 Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)📷 Sothebys
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Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy | Art UK
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Museum “rehangs” are everywhere, most recently at London's National Gallery. They inspire furious debate about mixing old art & new politics, but we forget that museums have always done that: their Victorian roots have never been more visible.
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The Victoriana of museum “rehangs”
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Beside the seaside 🌊 This new story focuses on the artists who depicted the town of St Ives in drawings during the 20th 👉 buff.ly/jwoSigS 'St Ives' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk
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Drawing St Ives: Modernism and 'French rot' in twentieth-century Cornwall | Art UK
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio for the @artukdotorg.bsky.social blog artuk.org/discover/sto... Pictured: Charity, 1861, oil on canvas by Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)
A painting of children on and around a portico, with a landscape in the background, in which sits a statue of a Madonna & Child. In the foreground, a girl in a red dress with a blue bow in her hair hands an orange to two other girls, at least one of whom is dressed in rags. At the feet of the girl in the red dress is a cloth with more food in it. At the left edge of the painting two more children are seated on the step.
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to now be publishing something every week at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social with the addition of "In tandem with..." – our new series of shorter interviews with artists and art people. Read the first one here!
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I interviewed Anna Perach about her amazing tufted carpet sculptures and the drift of modern society away from magical, mystical ways of seeing the word. Her show opens at Richard Saltoun in London today! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘I push carpet to the extreme’: The craft genius who makes tufted humanoid wearable sculptures
Should carpet as a medium be as highly regarded as painting with oils and sculpting with marble? Anna Perach, an artist born in Ukraine, talks us through her new show inspired by Hoffman’s love triang...
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wonderful new story in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this week with interviews with queer artists about the way they collaborate with and support their partners – a new model for fostering shared, loving creativity in an increasingly relentlessly capitalist art world.
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Creating a rebellious blueprint, queer artist couples teach us the importance of the collective, of the shared, and of the community. “It’s a liberation, meeting someone who opens you up,” says María Cuellar. www.tandem-mag.com/its-a-libera...
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It’s a liberation
Queer artist couples show us that great art doesn’t have to be made alone.
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We'd love to know what you think of our social media! Take this very short survey (only five questions) to help us create more content you enjoy. 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/C696PHG Thanks 🧡
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow... @tandemmagazine.bsky.social
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Taste follows power
Siena’s lesson in history-writing.
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow... @tandemmagazine.bsky.social
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Taste follows power
Siena’s lesson in history-writing.
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Siena is a story of the path history didn’t take. That is the privilege of the powerful: to write something out of memory, to create the myths of nations, of religions, of power. Read more from @elizag.bsky.social on the what-might-have-been of Siena's renaissance: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...
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Taste follows power
Siena’s lesson in history-writing
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Really interesting story from Annette Wickham at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social about Turner's early training at the RA Schools – he called it "the place to which I owe everything." @artukdotorg.bsky.social has loads on Turner for his 250th birthday – this thread is a great place to start.
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Artist Amy Bravo’s work is animated by one major question: "Would my ancestors like me?" She talks about her multimedia practice, her fraught relationship with her Cuban heritage, and her desire to build an army of queer women in this new interview. www.tandem-mag.com/would-my-anc...
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Would my ancestors like me?: Amy Bravo’s reckoning with myth, heritage, and queer storytelling
New York-based painter and sculptor Amy Bravo doesn’t want to be subtle. Through her multimedia work, she toes the line between the absurd and the grotesque, oscillating “between kitsch, a Dada-esque ...
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I reviewed the Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern. It's a stunner, if riddled with contradictions. “You wouldn’t be interested in me if I didn’t look the way I do,” Bowery once said. “Let’s face it, nobody would.” That line encapsulates his own paradox of self-worth. tinyurl.com/mr48fbm9
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Leigh Bowery’s Tate Survey Exudes Grimy, Glamorous Hedonism
An exhibition at Tate Modern in London showcases the outlandish looks and lives of the style icon and performance artist Leigh Bowery.
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Read about the Caracci Cartoons – a pair of large late sixteenth-century drawings – as they go on display at National Gallery 👉 buff.ly/4LF5FoD 'Cephalus carried off by Aurora in her Chariot' by Agostino Carracci (1557–1602) 📷 National Gallery
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Myths in the making: the Carracci Cartoons | Art UK
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I reviewed the Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern. It's a stunner, if riddled with contradictions. “You wouldn’t be interested in me if I didn’t look the way I do,” Bowery once said. “Let’s face it, nobody would.” That line encapsulates his own paradox of self-worth. tinyurl.com/mr48fbm9
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Leigh Bowery’s Tate Survey Exudes Grimy, Glamorous Hedonism
An exhibition at Tate Modern in London showcases the outlandish looks and lives of the style icon and performance artist Leigh Bowery.
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There is a lot of stuff on the internet, and in real life, and it’s hard to know what’s good. Every month, we’re sending a list of stuff we have encountered digitally or physically that is worthy of a recommendation. Here's the first one – you’re welcome. www.tandem-mag.com/april-bullet...
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April Bulletin
There is a lot of stuff on the internet, and in real life, and it’s hard to know what’s good. Every month, we’re sending a list of stuff we have encountered digitally or physically that is worthy of a...
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Artist, educator, curator and writer Anita Taylor has been making drawings for four decades. Read our new seven questions interview by Nichol Keene 👉 buff.ly/UzdIo01 © the artist. 📷 Anita Taylor
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Seven questions with Anita Taylor | Art UK
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Do we relinquish “beauty” to those who wish to make it signify submission, or do we reimagine and reclaim the complexity, profundity, and spaciousness of the beautiful?" Read about the battlefield over the beautiful here: tinyurl.com/rh9cerpu
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When did beauty become a dirty word?
The battlefield over the beautiful in art
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ethel Sands was a mass of contradictions, embodying the paradoxes & dynamism modernity. In both her art and her life, she looked backward as much as she looked forward, weaving together the radical and the old-fashioned. I wrote about her for ARTnews: www.artnews.com/art-news/art...
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Who Was Ethel Sands?
A queer artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group, her work unsettles the usual understanding of modernity
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I reviewed the new Celia Paul monograph for @hyperallergic.com "[The book] evokes a rich sense of who she thinks she is — and how she wants to be perceived. There is a haunting instability about the image that emerges, fraught with competing strands of austerity and audacity." tinyurl.com/mvaucy2p
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Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World
A new monograph brings the artist’s life into focus as she returns to the same subjects again and again: the women in her family, the British Museum, and the sea.
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A great story about the Renaissance obsession with drapery from Amanda Hilliam - read it on @artukdotorg.bsky.social
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I wrote about beauty & art, and their strangely fraught relationship today. Politicised, deified, feminised: beauty has lost cultural currency, or gained a new one, and I dig into why for @tandemmagazine.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this one for ages. www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...
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When did beauty become a dirty word?
The battlefield over the beautiful in art
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I wrote about beauty & art, and their strangely fraught relationship today. Politicised, deified, feminised: beauty has lost cultural currency, or gained a new one, and I dig into why for @tandemmagazine.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this one for ages. www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...
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When did beauty become a dirty word?
The battlefield over the beautiful in art
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"When did beauty become a dirty word?" asks Eliza Goodpasture in Tandem's first essay. Read her thoughts on the politicisation of beauty, and it's general cultural devaluing, here: www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...
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When did beauty become a dirty word?
The battlefield over the beautiful in art
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"I see myself as a witness of my generation. By choosing to paint the stories that I do, I am witnessing how the world is evolving. I am also telling a bit of my story through everybody’s stories," says Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman. Read the full interview now at tandem-mag.com
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our first artist interview is out at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social!! Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman talks about her work to bear witness to the migrant experience in Paris. She's such a magnetic storyteller. Read here: www.tandem-mag.com/a-witness-of...
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Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"I was asking them to tell me the story of their exile through the prism of the object." Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman talks to Isabella Fox Arias about bearing witness to her generation of migrants in Tandem's first artist interview. Read now: www.tandem-mag.com/a-witness-of...
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I wrote about the forbidden history of women drawing nudes for @artukdotorg.bsky.social – so many amazing examples of women defying the odds to learn how to draw bodies (sometimes drawing their own when they couldn't study life models). artuk.org/discover/sto...
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote about the rise (revenge!) of women surrealists for @theguardian.com. There’s such a flurry of interest in their wacky, weird, magical art at the moment, and you can see why. And they’re all so different! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Dismissed, excluded and now adored: how the female surrealists finally had their revenge
Written off as ‘muses’ and denied entry to the movement, they still produced extraordinary work that is only now being appreciated. We enter a gender-breaking world of occult worship – and cats
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote about the rise (revenge!) of women surrealists for @theguardian.com. There’s such a flurry of interest in their wacky, weird, magical art at the moment, and you can see why. And they’re all so different! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Dismissed, excluded and now adored: how the female surrealists finally had their revenge
Written off as ‘muses’ and denied entry to the movement, they still produced extraordinary work that is only now being appreciated. We enter a gender-breaking world of occult worship – and cats
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Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Amazing article. "More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media ... actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of ..fear and anger... instead of organizing against [our oppressors]."
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I reviewed the new Paule Vézelay show at the RWA in Bristol for @theguardian.com It's a really rich show that bring's Vézelay's prickly, fierce personality to life www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Paule Vézelay: Living Lines review – fierce artist forged in the heat of Picasso’s avant-garde Paris
The woman born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol is honoured in her home city with a powerful show that captures her packed life, dramatic work – and even her faded curtains
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Louisa McKenzie @louisamckenzie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote about some of the uses of #drawing in the #renaissance for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Read it here: artuk.org/discover/sto... #arthistory #renaissanceart #arthistorian
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I wrote about the recent boom in interest in the previously completely unknown Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint. What's behind her rise? (Spoiler: marketability) www.frieze.com/article/art-...
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What’s Behind the Art World’s Obsession with Hilma af Klint?
As another major show opens at Guggenheim Bilbao, Eliza Goodpasture examines what drives the meteoric rise of the once-unknown artist
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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I commission stories about drawings for @artukdotorg.bsky.social and I'm always looking for pitches! Some fun stories I've published recently: 🧵
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