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LONDON—In 1981, the Royal Academy of Arts in London put on an exhibition of 20 th century painting that changed the art world. A New Spirit in Painting was 'a manifesto,' the accompanying catalogue said; it showcased a set of contemporary, mostly European painters, whose work possessed qualities—figurative, narrative, emotional...
'A faint, beautiful memory' is how curator Norman Rosenthal described A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981-2018, the current show at Almine Rech Gallery on the Upper East Side. What he’s remembering, as spelled out in the exhibition’s title, is the seminal survey, A New Spirit in Painting, which opened, barely, at the Royal Academy of Arts...
After four decades spent in the shadows — as Mr. Freud's partner, as a woman artist and as a figurative painter when the genre was pronounced dead — Ms. Paul, now 58, is drawing attention for her soulful and melancholy portraits. Opening on April 3 at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven is a Celia Paul show curated by the New...