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Chloë Ashby

Chloë Ashby is an author and arts critic who has written for publications such as The Times, TLS, Guardian, Spectator and frieze. Her debut novel, Wet Paint, was published in April 2022, and her second novel, Second Self, is due in July 2023.

An exhibition of kaleidoscopic painting at Victoria Miro, London, is a celebration of free love and excess

BY Chloë Ashby | 12 JUN 23

Ahead of Tate Modern’s first major show on the French artist in 70 years, what can we learn from an incomplete work of art?

BY Chloë Ashby | 30 SEP 22

An intimate new exhibition at London’s Two Temple Place explores how Black female artists – from Ladi Kwali to Shawanda Corbett – have reimagined one of the world’s oldest art forms

BY Chloë Ashby | 10 FEB 22

In What Artists Wear, Charlie Porter examines figures from Georgia O’Keeffe to Gilbert & George to reflect on the importance of clothing to artistic practice and identity

BY Chloë Ashby | 01 JUN 21

This is an artist who delights in confronting human flaws – both other people’s and his own

BY Chloë Ashby | 01 NOV 19

An exhibition aims to give voice to the ‘fallen women’ at the heart of the Victorian brotherhood

BY Chloë Ashby | 22 OCT 19

In the first show dedicated to the artist’s portraits, a narcissistic personality emerges

BY Chloë Ashby | 11 OCT 19

As a survey of his work opens at the V&A in London, the fashion photographer discusses the balance between beauty and ugliness; light and dark; truth and imagination

BY Chloë Ashby | 17 SEP 19

Found stashed under her bed when she died, the spiritualist’s drawings and embroideries go on show at William Morris Gallery

BY Chloë Ashby | 01 JUL 19