A Personal Ecology – Exhibition Review

Louisa Bermingham’s A Personal Ecology at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is an exhibition that resists the clean separation of painting, object, and environment. A Personal Ecology constructs a porous, sensorial field in which images and things circulate with an almost conversational ease. The exhibition feels less “installed” than gently grown into being. At…

In conversation with the co-curators: Juanita McNeely at Lévy Gorvy Dayan

For this month’s edition of the Paper Galleries, I was graciously invited to speak with Tucker Drew and Tilde Fredholm at Lévy Gorvy Dayan about the gallery’s current exhibition on Juanita McNeely, organised in collaboration with James Fuentes Gallery in New York. Tucker and Tilde worked on the curation and research of the show alongside…

What is missing in a Lucian Freud exhibition?

In the minds of many people, curatorship is associated with the ideas of selection, choice, and the power to decide what will be included and what will not be seen. However, during the recent Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting exhibition tour, organised by the Art Business Society in collaboration with the curatorial assistant involved in the show’s production, I found…