Tag: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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A Second Life, Not a Reinvention: Tracey Emin at Louisiana
At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Tracey Emin’s retrospective brings nearly four decades of work together, revealing the remarkable continuity between her early installations and the increasingly assured paintings of recent years. Almost thirty years after My Bed (1998) became one of the most controversial works in British contemporary art, it is fascinating to encounter…
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When Hollywood Still Had Magic: Elizabeth Taylor at 700 Nimes Road
Through Catherine Opie’s photographs of Elizabeth Taylor’s final home, an extraordinary Hollywood life unfolds in objects, memories and fragments of a vanished world. Returning to the exhibition at Louisiana is an exercise in nostalgia, but also a reflection on beauty, resilience and the strange passage of time. A young Elizabeth Taylor stands before the camera…
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The Logic of the Impossible: Remedios Varo at Louisiana
At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the first major European retrospective of Remedios Varo reveals an artist whose remarkable paintings bring together science, alchemy, psychology and an imagination entirely her own. The paintings of Remedios Varo operate according to peculiar but convincing rules. Figures travel through forests in elaborate mechanical vehicles, experiment with…
