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An afterimage is what the eye goes on seeing once it has looked away. These pieces are written after the visit, sometimes after the exhibition has closed, and they stay with what remained: an image, a room, a sentence on a wall, a question the show opened about an artist or a theme. They give no verdicts and assign no stars. Where we can, we illustrate them with our own installation photographs, and we close with the details of the exhibition and the institutions that made it possible.
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Half the title on the entrance panel has been struck through in red. Inside, sixty years of ink: maps that keep their coasts and lose their names, and the founding manifesto of Futurism blacked out in the house that holds its paintings.
5 September 2026
17 August 2026
Thirty-eight photographers, four American cities, one century. A collection that crossed an ocean to reach a gallery built for paintings.
21 May 2026
Cecily Brown's Picture Making at Serpentine South, seen through Kensington Gardens. The South Flower Walk is in its first blooms. Virginia Woolf walked here as a child. Brown painted here as a memory. What stays, after the rooms, is the park itself: a place where painting, literature and looking keep returning to one another.
22 April 2026
In a darkened room in one of Naples' most important galleries, a small LED projects the shadow of a globe onto a wall. Fabrizio Corneli has spent forty-five years making art from light. What he controls least is what interests him most.