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Adrian Searle

@SearleAdrian

Art critic, writer, other. Definitely other.

Joined June 2013
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A funfair ride to the end of the world: Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review theguardian.com/artanddesign…
A funfair ride to the end of the world: Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review

A funfair ride to the end of the world: Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review

Resistance is futile in the sumptuous colours of Phillipson’s entertaining apocalypse, filled with colossal metal creatures, agitated animal eyes and a giant celestial peach

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Comical, cartoonish, wonky-nostrilled brilliance – Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty review theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Comical, cartoonish, wonky-nostrilled brilliance – Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty review

Comical, cartoonish, wonky-nostrilled brilliance – Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty review

With his galumphing caricatures, spurting paint and quivering doodles, the art brut master caught the hectic rhythm of the postwar world – and his street scenes make you want to jump right in

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Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento died this morning. Uncountable dinners and drinks, all those paintings and films and collages and good friendship and gossip and enthusiasms flowed. Winded.
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Apocalypse now: John Akomfrah’s The Unintended Beauty of Disaster theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Apocalypse now: John Akomfrah’s The Unintended Beauty of Disaster

Apocalypse now: John Akomfrah’s The Unintended Beauty of Disaster

Lisson Gallery, LondonWith a relentless video onslaught, Akomfrah confronts colonialism, slavery, migrants and the obliteration of the natural world with astonishing results

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‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review theguardian.com/artanddesign…
‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review

‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review

Gagosian Britannia, LondonPart of a year-long residency at the gallery, the artist’s initial show, with Coke vending machines, rubbish bags and cow’s tongues a-lolling, is dispiriting

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Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air

Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air

The Swiss artist takes us on an effortless tour of Sea-turquoise glass horses, watercolour ocean sunsets and teetering DayGlo canvasses

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'I need a doctor!' – the filthy, furious, fun-filled art of Vanessa Baird theguardian.com/artanddesign…
'I need a doctor!' – the filthy, furious, fun-filled art of Vanessa Baird

'I need a doctor!' – the filthy, furious, fun-filled art of Vanessa Baird

Available onlineEven the quiet moments are disturbing in the Norwegian artist’s debut UK show, which bursts with grotesque scenes of claustrophobic household life

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I really like this work: Jennifer Packer review – paintings that creep up on you theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Jennifer Packer review – paintings that creep up on you

Jennifer Packer review – paintings that creep up on you

Serpentine Gallery, LondonFriendship, loss and the everyday populate Packer’s canvases, but they are full of disquieting detail

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Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul review – moments of horror theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul review – moments of horror

Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul review – moments of horror

Royal Academy, LondonMunch’s paintings of troubled women are echoed dramatically in Emin’s clamouring images of herself as she struggles to exorcise her demons

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Apocalyptic goo and Detroit in beats: Jarman award 2020 is shared theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Apocalyptic goo and Detroit in beats: Jarman award 2020 is shared

Apocalyptic goo and Detroit in beats: Jarman award 2020 is shared

Jenn Nkiru’s standout film of Detroit’s techno history evokes the rhythm of fractured black lives in a show with no winner but plenty to mull over

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Culture war gets worse
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Meet Ripley, 8 week old Bediwhippet, latest addition to the family. Mabel ( our whippet-poodle cross) is a bit jealous), but they’ll work it out.
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The Donald is toast *apologies to my prophetic Welsh Rarebit.
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Story time:
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Something to enjoy as this crazy week hobbles to its end. @SearleAdrian reading from Helen Marten’s The Boiled in Between. Watch the full video here: vimeo.com/476064227
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Strap-ons, style and self-invention: Zanele Muholi – review theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Strap-ons, style and self-invention: Zanele Muholi – review

Strap-ons, style and self-invention: Zanele Muholi – review

With provocative images of lesbian empowerment and gender play, the photographer celebrates the resilience, style and creativity of South Africa’s queer community

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Exactly
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Replying to @piersmorgan
The entire country will say this 😂 teapawt.net/alreadytaken74/status/…
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After Backlash, Philip Guston Retrospective to Open in 2022 nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/…
After Backlash, Philip Guston Retrospective to Open in 2022 (Published 2020)

After Backlash, Philip Guston Retrospective to Open in 2022 (Published 2020)

Four museums had delayed the touring exhibition until 2024 because of concerns about works that depict Ku Klux Klansmen.

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The suspension & ‘disciplining’ of curator Mark Godfey by @Tate is an utter disgrace.
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Replying to @Tai_Shani
@Tai_Shani you were great talking about your life & work in your kitchen @CourtauldRes today. Respect.
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Does anyone know a work, mid-1980s, shown in Berkley CA, in which a suspended bag of honey breaks thru its membrane & spills on the floor below? Artist, work? Asking for a friend...
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