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Cal Revely-Calder

Cal Revely-Calder is a writer and editor from London, UK. He works on the arts desk at The Telegraph. In 2017, he won the Frieze Writers’ Prize.

At Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, the artist’s depictions of the excesses of consumerism and empire are all-too seductive

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As society withdrew behind screens Cal Revely-Calder reflects on how the visage has become a focal point in painting during the COVID-19 crisis

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At Almine Rech, ‘Country Western’, the artist’s first solo show in the UK, draws on the unashamed iconography surrounding fame

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Translations of Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah and Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel come together and fall apart in the artist’s latest show

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All attention is an act of devotion, and patience is the pleasure of this touring exhibition of contemporary paintings 

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Sara Sinclair’s new anthology of interviews recalls the parties, the poverty and the ongoing hero worship

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How much to read into Samuel Beckett’s flirtation with fashion?

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At Blain|Southern, London, the Mexican artist’s primordial canvases evoke the beginning of the beginning

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‘He created rhythmic patterns that sounded, in your mind or on his voice, both adamantine and feline at once’

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On show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London, the works show the American master at the height of his powers

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The fallacies of ‘community building’, online and IRL, in the work of Cécile B. Evans

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In ‘Clothes Line’, at London’s White Rainbow, the artist explores improvisation, social groups and the minute fluctuations of the day to day 

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With a republished collection of her writing by David Zwirner Books, the Italophile critic is shown to be as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent

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Publishing elegant, peculiar studies in fine attention and finer craft, how the small London press is producing some of the best writing around

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At Richard Saltoun, London, two artists share the belief that rhythm is a trait of the body and women’s bodies are too closely policed

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 At David Zwirner, London, studies in mortality and intimacy from the artist's final years display his remarkable stylistic range

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At Alison Jacques Gallery, London, the late artist's paintings are caught in the act of testing their own mettle

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