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What’s the Point of it?
Ann Jones visits Martin Creed’s career retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, ducks to avoid Mothers, and comes face to face with third party hairballs. In an art world that often seems to take itself...
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Fragmented histories
Ann Jones on two new exhibitions in London. La Jetee It’s a long time ago but I clearly remember seeing Chris Marker’s La Jetée for the first time, and the power it exerted. I was at art school. I was...
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Being Human
Ann Jones visits two very different art installations currently showing in central London and finds both provide space to think. Marina Abramović Some artists I like, some I don’t. Sometimes it’s all...
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Confusing realities
A visit to MIRRORCITY makes Ann Jones reflect on the way curatorial decisions affect the way we see art. John Stezaker, Ventriloquist IX, 2014 I like art, regular readers will probably have sussed that...
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Agnes Martin
Ann Jones finds that the Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern provides some welcome light and space amid the frenetic early summer art season It’s that time of year. In early summer, I always see...
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Future Imperfect
Ann Jones reports from the 56th Venice Biennale In an unpredictable world it’s good to have a bit of certainty. For me at least, one small certainty is that an odd number year means a trip to Venice at...
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Artists, Performers, Engineers
Five years ago (in the second article we ever published) Ann Jones wrote about Christian Marclay’s The Clock. Today she reflects on two exhibitions that deal with performance, cinema and the internet –...
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Tate And A Half
In which Ann Jones goes for a stroll around something new. I vividly remember standing on the balcony of the members’ room during a private view when Tate Modern opened in 2000. As a Londoner a few...
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The Childhood of a Leader
Ann Jones wonders what The Childhood of a Leader is all about. Beyond the obvious – and the very title means it’s hardly a spoiler to say that this is a film about the early life of a fascist dictator...
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Bird’s eye view
Dinh Q. Lê’s The Colony – art correspondent Ann Jones on bird shit and drones In my head, the idea of islands all but made of bird shit – though something I vaguely knew to exist – is sufficiently...
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