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Beer With a Painter: Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Mary Lovelace O'Neal combines bold abstract painting and sustained civil-rights activism, using large marks and series to assert presence and explore resistance.

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Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle

Consisting of titles and descriptions of works from antiquity to today that depict the Black female form, Robin Coste Lewis's poem Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) is, in its rolling invocations of unnamed slave girls and shards of looted statuary, both exhibition catalogue and litany of instrumentalisation. A reading of the poem, in a sanitised and objective voice, serves as the soundtrack to a walk through the Musée du Louvre in the French director Alice Diop's short film Fragments for Venus (2025),

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Beer With a Painter: Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle

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