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Dr Victoria Powell

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Let the Art Speak!

This week in The Gallery Companion:

  • Why I’m looking back to art history rather than to the churn of the contemporary art world.

  • A load of links, videos, thoughts and images for your contemplation.

  • My three must-see exhibitio...

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Confessions of a Would-Be Art Toucher

2025 is nearly over, Gallery Companions. It’s been a funny old year in my life with lots of deep tectonic shifts. But one of the highlights for me was getting back to regularly writing this newsletter, and feeling like I’ve got stuff to sha...

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Art for the Tech Bro Era

This week in The Gallery Companion:

There’s anger at the choice of artist for the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026. But is it justified?

KAWS at SFMOMA. An example of red-chip art. Like blue-chip but hollow and really hot-commod...

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The Art of Google Street View

Keeping it short and sweet this week in The Gallery Companion:

A photographic exhibition in Denmark on the fascinating and unexpected scenes of people / animals / things thrown up by Google Street View.

A proposal for a huge statue in Sa...

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Banned Body Bits

Coming up this week in The Gallery Companion:

I’ve been thinking about the mountain of criticism that the new exhibition opening today at Canterbury Cathedral has already received. What’s it all about and is the anger justified?

An exhibi...

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