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Founded in 2009, Elephant.art is the definitive guide to contemporary art and visual culture. Elephant aims to survey the international contemporary art scene with more energy and depth than any other magazine in print or online.
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In Cara Benedetto’s current exhibition at Rose Easton (London), the artist explores the performance of white female victimhood. Ella Slater explores the context of this exhibition and examines Philippa Snow’s
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Ali Banisadr and Huma Bhabha Examine their Creative Practices as Restorative World-Building Exercises Despite the apparent differences between their work—one is primarily a painter and the other a sculptor—artists Ali
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Katie Tobin sits down with Wynnie Mynerva to discuss Mynerva’s large-scale paintings and how they relate to notions of sickness and health. Rallying against centuries of phallocentric artwork, Wynnie Mynerva
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Elephant Magazine
4d ago
Alvaro Barrington’s East End studio, housed in the historic site of England’s first free school, is something to behold. Spread across two buildings, the space showcases an unorthodox mix of
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Elephant Magazine
6d ago
I meet John Akomfrah on the steps of the British Pavilion on the opening day of the 2024 Venice Biennale. ‘Oh it is you’ (I had been lingering around the
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Elephant Magazine
6d ago
‘In my work, I am not illustrating my identity. What I am trying to do is to understand myself in the world. I find that the label identity is very
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Elephant Magazine
6d ago
Elephant’s Desmond Vincent reports on the artist-led communities re-energising the Lagos art scene. Kadara Enyeasi’s cheekily titled ‘because this must be shown’ remains one of my most memorable highlights from
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Elephant Magazine
1w ago
Elephant writer Isaac Huxtable reviews Brooklyn Museum’s ‘In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection’ for Elephant Magazine. In the Now:
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Elephant Magazine
1w ago
Everybody knows a woman on the verge is a moneymaker. In 2007, as Britney Spears buzzed off her locks at a hole-in-the-wall salon in Los Angeles, muttering “I am a
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