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British Art Show 10 review – a bold and brilliant exploration of who the British really are
Coventry University Shopfront, scaffolding, throbbing car bodies … 37 artists take the temperature of the nation in a show which shows the breadth and eccentricity of British identity It’s freshers’ week in Coventry. A student chamber choir is playing outside Warwick Arts Centre’s Mead Gallery as I arrive – an unintended but serendipitous entry to the British Art Show 10 . The unexpected collisions of sounds, images and media continue throughout the three-venue, 37-artist strong exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun. The British Art Show is an unwieldy thing. The UK’s largest recurring contemporary art exhibition, the quinquennial survey of British art’s inaugural edition took place in Sheffield in 1979 – 112 artists were shown, including Frank Bowling, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. It is intended as a survey of British art now – all the works were made in the last five years, and all the a
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Coventry University Shopfront, scaffolding, throbbing car bodies … 37 artists take the temperature of the nation in a show which shows the breadth and eccentricity of British identity It’s freshers’ week in Coventry. A student chamber choir is playing outside Warwick Arts Centre’s Mead Gallery as I arrive – an unintended but serendipitous entry to the British Art Show 10 . The unexpected collisions of sounds, images and media continue throughout the three-venue, 37-artist strong exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun. The British Art Show is an unwieldy thing. The UK’s largest recurring contemporary art exhibition, the quinquennial survey of British art’s inaugural edition took place in Sheffield in 1979 – 112 artists were shown, including Frank Bowling, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. It is intended as a survey of British art now – all the works were made in the last five years, and all the a
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According to The Guardian’s source item, British Art Show 10 review – a bold and brilliant exploration of who the British really are, Coventry University Shopfront, scaffolding, throbbing car bodies … 37 artists take the temperature of the nation in a show which shows the breadth and eccentricity of British identity It’s freshers’ week in Coventry. A student chamber choir is playing outside Warwick Arts Centre’s Mead Gallery as I arrive – an unintended but serendipitous entry to the British Art Show 10 . The unexpected collisions of sounds, images and media continue throughout the three-venue, 37-artist strong exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun. The British Art Show is an unwieldy thing. The UK’s largest recurring contemporary art exhibition, the quinquennial survey of British art’s inaugural edition took place in Sheffield in 1979 – 112 artists were shown, including Frank Bowling, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. It is intended as a survey of British art now – all the works were made in the last five years, and all the a
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