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Chris Ofili

June 2024

  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

  • Freedom Hunters (1977) by Gavin Jantjes.

    To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A

April 2024

  • Jonathan Jones

    Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly 80 years in a fast-evolving art scene

    Jonathan Jones
    Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

September 2023

  • Almost medieval … Chris Ofili, Requiem, 2023 (detail) commissioned for Tate Britain’s north staircase.

    Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

  • ‘I wanted to be sincere and outrageous’ … Chris Ofili.

    ‘I want it to hit people in the gut’: Chris Ofili on his epic, three-wall Grenfell fresco

June 2023

  • ‘Your eye slides and drifts’ … The Great Beauty by Chris Ofili.

    Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins review – sacred, seductive and sensational

    Full of giddying detail and unfathomable mystery, these large, luxurious and deeply complex paintings are among the most beguiling works the artist has ever made

July 2022

  • Medusa Wandered the Wetlands of the Capital Citadel Undisturbed By Two Confederate Drifters Preoccupied by Poisonous Vapors That Stirred in the Night Air by Sedrick Chisom (2021).

    In the Black Fantastic review – spectacular from first to last

    Wild imagination unites 11 artists from the African diaspora, including Nick Cave and Kara Walker, as they address racial injustice through myth and fantasy in this never less than magnificent show

June 2022

  • BLACK FANTASTIC Wangechi Mutu, The End of eating Everything, 2014
Video animation
8:10 minutes
Courtesy of the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Victoria Miro, London. Commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

    In the Black Fantastic review – reaching for tomorrow’s art world

    Eleven contemporary artists inspired by Afrofuturism consider possible futures with a hopeful, fizzing energy

December 2021

  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby Remain, Thriving 2018. Tate © Njideka Akunyili Crosby.

    Life Between Islands review – a mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art

    Seventy years of tumultuous to-and-fro between grey Britain and the golden Caribbean, belonging and exile, power this crucial, enthralling show

November 2021

  • Tremors and violences are present throughout … The Spirit of the Carnival, 1982.

    Life Between Islands review: displaying the power and passion of Caribbean-British art

  • Jessie Burton is an English author and actress. As of 2015, she is most well known for her internationally published debut novel, The Miniaturist. Her second novel 'The Muse' is due to be published in june 2016. Jessie Burton is photographed at her home in south east London.

    Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins; Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth by Jessie Burton – review

October 2021

  • Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), oil on canvas, 1912<br>2GYTHX2 Penelope and the Suitors by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), oil on canvas, 1912

    Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins review – gloriously interwoven tales

    The classical stories of eight weaving women are depicted on their looms’ warp and weft in this thoughtful, dazzlingly illustrated collection

February 2021

  • Detail from Chris Ofili’s Crowning of a Satyr (Blue), 2021.

    Lockdown culture
    The Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel

    In this uplifting virtual show, works by 19 artists, including Paula Rego, Chris Ofili and Chantal Joffe, have one thing in common

December 2019

  • Joe Caseley Hayford OBE<br>Joe Casely-Hayford, OBE, is a British fashion designer. He has established his international reputation as a British designer of men's and women’s clothing since the mid-1980s. He is the grandson and namesake of the eminent lawyer and statesman, J. E. Casely-Hayford, whose 1911 novel Ethiopia Unbound greatly influenced Pan-African politics and the leading civil rights activists of its time. Joe Casely-Hayford was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the fashion industry, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published on 16 June 2007.
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    The Observer's obituaries of 2019
    Joe Casely-Hayford remembered by Chris Ofili

    The quietly brilliant UK fashion designer remembered by the painter, who first met him in late-1990s London

September 2019

  • From left: Tatlin’s Whisper #5, The Clock, The Weather Project, Pussy Riot, The Battle of Orgreave

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  • Night Bathers, 2019 by Peter Doig.

    Peter Doig; Jasmine Thomas-Girvan & Chris Ofili review – tall tales on distant shores

July 2018

  • Self-titled ‘patriot artist’ … Scott LoBaido, who has painted American flags in all 50 states, on the roof of a building in California.

    Trump v the art world: from a gold toilet to his latest culture war

    The state department has yet to select an artist for next year’s Venice biennale – the latest sign of the Trump administration’s toxic relationship with the arts

December 2017

  • Detail of a shot from Wolfgang Tillmans’ Tate Modern show.

    Best culture 2017
    Adrian Searle's top 10 art shows of 2017

    Chris Ofili stitched up Eden, Rodney Graham went stilt-walking, Picasso biked to the bullfight and Rachel Whiteread poured herself a hot water bottle. But the year belonged to the unsettling, eruptive visions of Wolfgang Tillmans

September 2017

  • House, by Rachel Whiteread

    The Guardian view on outrage and art: the new no longer shocks

    Editorial: The fury provoked by Rachel Whiteread 25 years ago is unthinkable today – thank goodness

July 2017

  • Chris Ofili
Union Black 2003
Polyester
1445 x 2590 mm
Courtesy of Victoria Miro and the artist.

    Chris Ofili agrees to let Union Black fly again after giving flag to the Tate

    Turner prizewinning artist’s work returns to London
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