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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

Renzo Piano, Royal Academy review - worth the effort

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Under the Wire review - risking everything to tell the world the truth

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The New Royal Academy and Tacita Dean, Landscape review - a brave beginning to a new era

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Formosa, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Sadler’s Wells review - perfect in every detail

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Shape of Light, Tate Modern review - a wasted opportunity

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Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank review - the artist puts himself in the frame

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Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss, Islington Green review - divine lamentation

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Sutra, Sadler’s Wells review – a masterpiece 10 years on

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Joan Jonas, Tate Modern review - work as elusive as it is beautiful

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Tacita Dean: Portrait, National Portrait Gallery / Still Life, National Gallery review - film as a fine art

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Another Kind of Life, Barbican review - intense encounters with marginal lives

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Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World, Whitechapel Gallery review - handsome installations

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Come to Dust: Glenn Brown, Gagosian Gallery review - seductive and disturbing

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Human Flow review - two hours of human misery

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Imagine... Rachel Whiteread: Ghosts in the Room, BBC Two review - making memories solid

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Rose Wylie: Quack Quack, Serpentine Gallery - anarchy at 83

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