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Installation view of Chris Ofili, The Caged Bird's Song, 2014–2017. Wool, cotton and viscose. Triptych, left and right panels each 280 x 184 cm; centre panel 280 x 372 cm. © Chris Ofili. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London, The Clothworkers’ Company and Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh. Photography: Gautier Deblonde
Friday Dispatch 28 Apr 2017 By Christine Takengny

Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic at the National Gallery
Theo Eshetu, Atlas Fractured 2017, digital video, installation view, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), documenta 14, photo: Theo Eshetu
Friday Dispatch 21 Apr 2017 By Ali MacGilp

documenta 14: Learning from Athens
Isabella Martin, North Sea Semaphore, 2017. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. FVU is supported by Arts Council England.
Friday Dispatch 7 Apr 2017 By Caroline Douglas

Somewhere Becoming Sea at Humber Street Gallery, Hull
Installation view – Patrick Hough, And If In A Thousand Years, 2017. Commissioned for Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017: Neither One Thing or Another, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Film and Video Umbrella. Image: Anna Arca.
Friday Dispatch 31 Mar 2017 By Ali MacGilp

Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017: Neither One Thing or Another
Vanessa Bell, Nude with Poppies, 1916, oil on canvas, 23.4 x 42.24 cm, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. © The Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy of Henrietta Garnett
Friday Dispatch 24 Mar 2017 By Caroline Douglas

Vanessa Bell at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1986. Courtesy artist & Hollybush Gardens. Photo Matthew Birchall & Tao Lashley-Burnley
Friday Dispatch 17 Mar 2017 By Christine Takengny

The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary
Rhys Coren, The Perennial Pandangle, 2017. Spray paint, acrylic and pencil on board, 60.7 x 60.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Seventeen Gallery. Photographer: Damian Griffiths
Friday Dispatch 10 Mar 2017 By Caroline Douglas

Rhys Coren: Whistle Bump Super Strut at Seventeen Gallery, London
Installation view, Do Ho Suh: Passage/s, 1 February – 18 March 2017. Courtesy of the Artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Victoria Miro, London (Photography Thierry Bal) ©Do Ho Suh
Friday Dispatch 3 Mar 2017 By Caroline Douglas

Do Ho Suh: Passage/s at Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Still from Hito Steyerl, 'Abstract', 2012, Double screen two channel HD video with sound, 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Edition of 7, with 2 APs. Presented to GoMA by the Contemporary Art Society through the Collections Fund, 2015
Friday Dispatch 24 Feb 2017 By Ali MacGilp

Polygraphs at Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow
Duncan Grant, Bathers by the Pond, c1920-21. Oil on canvas, 49 x 90 cm, Pallant House Gallery © 1978 Estate of Duncan Grant, courtesy Henrietta Garnett / DACS 2016
Friday Dispatch 17 Feb 2017 By Caroline Douglas

Sussex Modernism at Two Temple Place, London
Bouchra Khalili, The Mapping Journey Project, 2008-2011. Installation view, 'Here and Elsewhere', New Museum. Courtesy New Museum, New York. Photos Benoit Pailley
Friday Dispatch 10 Feb 2017 By Christine Takengny

Bouchra Khalili at Lisson Gallery, London
John Akomfrah with artwork Auto Da Fé. Photo by Polly Thomas
Friday Dispatch 3 Feb 2017 By Ali MacGilp

Artes Mundi 7, Cardiff

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