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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

The Last Musician of Auschwitz review - a haunting testament

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Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, Tate Modern review - memories are made of this

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Ed Atkins, Tate Britain review - hiding behind computer generated doppelgängers

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Hylozoic/Desires: Salt Cosmologies, Somerset House and The Hedge of Halomancy, Tate Britain review - the power of white powder

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Mickalene Thomas, All About Love, Hayward Gallery review - all that glitters

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Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, Whitechapel Gallery review - absence made powerfully present

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Noah Davis, Barbican review - the ordinary made strangely compelling

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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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