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Sarah Kent

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Sarah was the visual arts editor art of Time Out, the ICA’s Director of Exhibitions, has served on Turner Prize and other juries, and has written catalogues for the Hayward, ICA, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and Haunch of Venison and books such as Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s.

Articles By Sarah Kent

Best of 2024: Visual Arts

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Nocturnes review - the sounds of the rainforest transport you a remote region of the Himalayas

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Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, Tate Modern review - an exhaustive and exhausting show

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Snow Leopard review - clunky visual effects mar a director's swansong

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ARK: United States V by Laurie Anderson, Aviva Studios, Manchester review - a vessel for the thoughts and imaginings of a lifetime

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Vanessa Bell, MK Gallery review - diving into and out of abstraction

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The Last of the Sea Women review - a moving tale of feisty traditional divers

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Lygia Clark: The I and the You, Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation, Whitechapel Gallery review - breaking boundaries

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Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern review - adolescent angst indefinitely extended

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Monet and London, Courtauld Gallery review - utterly sublime smog

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Michael Craig-Martin, Royal Academy review - from clever conceptual art to digital decor

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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, National Gallery review - passions translated into paint

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent, Whitechapel Gallery review - photomontages sizzling with rage

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Dominique White: Deadweight, Whitechapel Gallery review - sculptures that seem freighted with history

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The Echo review - a beautiful but confusing look at life in a Mexican village

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Heart of an Oak review - an adventure film starring a tree and its inhabitants

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