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Tom Morton

Tom Morton is a writer, curator and contributing editor of frieze, based in Rochester, UK.

At its best, the artist’s London survey is a ferocious display of courage, while at its worst, it feels like a tribute act

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At White Cube Mason's Yard, the artist’s latest film is a Kafkaesque vision that may leave you pining for the exit

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At Kunsthal Charlottenborg, the artist’s ecclesiastical paintings channel the ethereal visions of William Blake and the earthy primitivism of Paul Gauguin

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At Phillida Reid, London, a series of elegant ink drawings prods at the art world’s social anxieties

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At Josh Lilley, London, the artist’s depictions of a not-so-blissful domesticity evoke Lee Lozano and Pablo Picasso

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The artist’s oversized flowers at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, address ideas of inheritance and nurture 

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Artists and writers, including Huw Lemmey and John Smith, select their favourite programmes from the broadcaster’s history

At Newport Street Gallery, London, the artist performatively burnt thousands of his own works 

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The artist’s first solo exhibition at David Zwirner, London, absorbs us into single, intimate moments

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A new exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, London, invites 47 artists to propose solutions to that reliably problematic artform, the monument

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At Seventeen, London, a group show engineered by Joey Holder and Omsk Social Club presents itself as a creepy ‘Squid Game’-esque clinic

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At Sprüth Magers in London, the artist’s robotic snake is a harbinger of destruction and regeneration

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Capturing moments of stillness and anticipation, at Workplace, London, the artist uses layers of stippled colours to conjure never-ending narratives

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With shades of the flâneur, the artist wanders the German philosopher’s rural retreat at Todtnauberg in a new series of short films

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From ‘Spaceballs’ to ‘The Orville’, the reason why so many interstellar sitcoms fail to raise a smile

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Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on

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Some suggestions for the International Council of Museums

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This year, all the shortlisted artists were named joint winners – what to make of this act of (institutionally approved) subversion?

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In an exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, the artist looks to the local marshes of Canvey Island with a weird degree of hope  

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To expect the progressive, internationalist art world to participate in a celebration of Brexit is to fire a volley into the culture war

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