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Sarah E. James

Sarah E. James is an art historian and writer based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her next book Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde, is forthcoming from the MIT Press.

On the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Sarah E. James considers the artist's idiosyncratic abstractions

BY Sarah E. James | 03 NOV 21

Combining archival material with contemporary art, an exhibition at Dresden’s Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau highlights the activist’s connection with the GDR

BY Sarah E. James | 05 NOV 20

At MMK Frankfurt, a retrospective housed in a group exhibition mirrors the artist's rejection of conventional classifications

BY Sarah E. James | 16 OCT 20

A major retrospective at Dresden’s Albertinum sheds new light on the artist’s relationship with his hometown

BY Sarah E. James | 23 JAN 20

A survey of Germany’s unification events, from David Hasselhoff to Hito Steyerl

BY Sarah E. James | 05 NOV 19

From international newspapers to the artist’s personal image archive, an exhibition at K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, examines the mass of information and its impact on agency

BY Sarah E. James | 24 SEP 19

In curator Susanne Pfeffer’s latest, ‘Museum’ speaks to our moment of funding scandals, museum protests and social media outrage

BY Sarah E. James | 27 AUG 19

Kasper reflects on a world in which everyone is a critic, every space a studio

BY Sarah E. James | 11 JUN 19

A rare view of Laurie Parsons’s work at Germany’s Museum Abteiberg provides space to reflect on art and social engagement

BY Sarah E. James | 25 MAR 19

A retrospective at Städel Museum, Frankfurt, sheds new light on the op artist's experimental styles 

BY Sarah E. James | 11 DEC 18

Various venues, Folkestone, UK

BY Sarah E. James | 20 SEP 17

Images for a different future: recent projects examine the projected desires of the German Democratic Republic’s lost socialist culture

BY Sarah E. James | 14 NOV 14

From his early Dada and Surrealist photomontages to his later New York fashion shoots, Erwin Blumenfeld insistently parodied objects of desire

BY Sarah E. James | 29 MAR 13

Harry Pye selects interesting but under-exposed artists to take part in an exhibition series at L-13

BY Sarah E. James | 06 SEP 11