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IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.



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Shola von Reinhold’s ‘LOTE’

Book Review

September 2020

Izabella Scott

Book Review

September 2020

To read Shola von Reinhold’s ornate, multi-layered novel LOTE (2020) is to encounter a baroque mind. It tells the story of a queer Black...

Art Review

November 2019

Actually, the Dead are Not Dead

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2019

During Bergen Assembly’s opening days, I am asked to attend a number of mock funerals, including one for a...

Of his art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Pablo Picasso once wondered, ‘What would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn’t had a business sense?’ The dealer, who did so much with his Paris gallery between 1907 and 1914 to usher Cubism into the world, felt similarly indebted: ‘it is great artists’, he said, ‘who make great dealers’ Then as now, one without the other is unimaginable   Kahnweiler is one among several historic dealers in modern and contemporary art who might serve as role models to the gallerists who are today responsible for bringing ground-breaking artists to a wider public He was, by some accounts, a meagre businessman, but he had the temper for Cubism when few others did He knew not only how to spot artists (he showed all the principal Cubists: Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger) but also how to put them into conversation When his artists were unsure, he suggested titles for their work; he wrote about their paintings to provide audiences with context; he recognised the force of their style ‘I did not have the slightest doubt,’ he said, ‘as to either the aesthetic value of these pictures or their importance in the history of painting’   By the time he opened his gallery at 28, rue Vignon, the Salon de Paris had long been on the wane and public tastes were shifting The most affluent members of the bourgeoisie had the money for art, but only a nascent sensibility for abstraction They needed a gallery like his to put the art into context Kahnweiler’s Cubist programme – like Alfred Steiglitz’s photography programme at his 291 gallery in New York, or Charles Egan’s Abstract Expressionist emphasis at his eponymous New York gallery in the 1940s – lent focus to a new chapter in the history of modernism   The most important dealers have always made that their task That’s what the American art dealer Leo Castelli did with his gallery, which he opened in New York in 1957 In January 1958, he hosted Jasper Johns’ first solo show The exhibition, which included Johns’ paintings of American flags, rang the closing bell for

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September 2015

Izabella Scott

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September 2015

IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.

Book Review

August 2019

Jordy Rosenberg’s ‘Confessions of the Fox’

Izabella Scott

Book Review

August 2019

It’s hot as fuck, said the friend who handed me Confessions of the Fox, a faux-memoir set in eighteenth-century...

Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Echo Chamber

Art Review

November 2017

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2017

A lattice of diamonds and crosses, painted onto a 21-metre long wall at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, scatters my gaze. Artist Navine G....
Hot Rocks

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November 2016

Izabella Scott

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November 2016

‘We have received around 150 of them,’ Massimo Osanna tells me, as we peer into four small crates stuffed full of dusty freezer bags....
False shadows

Art

August 2016

Izabella Scott

Art

August 2016

The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...

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poetry

Issue No. 18

Two New Poems

Dorothea Lasky

poetry

Issue No. 18

Do You Want To Dip The Rat   Do you want to dip the rat Completely in oil  ...

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Issue No. 4

Tibetan Kitsch

Evan Harris

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Issue No. 4

I first glimpsed the Potala Palace behind the bending legs of a prostitute. She swayed, obscuring a vista of...

Art

Issue No. 3

Borism

Lee Rourke

Oliver Griffin

Art

Issue No. 3

ES9 is the latest body of work by Oliver Griffin in his archival series The Evaluation of Space. Taken...

 

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