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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

River review – gorgeous visuals and a timely message: so what’s not to like?

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The Metamorphosis of Birds review - picture perfect

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Surrealism Beyond Borders, Tate Modern review - a disappointing mish mash

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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65, Barbican review - revelations galore

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A Century of the Artist's Studio, Whitechapel Gallery review - a voyeur's delight

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Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, Hayward Gallery review - the wife, the mistress, the daughter and the art that came out of it

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America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery review - a country in jeopardy

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Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, Royal Academy review – a life lived in extremis

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Kehinde Wiley, National Gallery review - more than meets the eye

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Lubaina Himid, Tate Modern review – more explication please

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Waste Age, Design Museum review - too little too lame

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Yoko Ono, Mend Piece, Whitechapel Gallery review – funny and sad in equal measure

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Theaster Gates - A Clay Sermon, Whitechapel Gallery review - mud, mud, glorious mud

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Isamu Noguchi, Barbican review – the most elegant exhibition in town

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Gerhard Richter: Drawings, Hayward Gallery review - exquisite ruminations

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Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery review - a glorious celebration of diversity

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