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Jane Ure-Smith

Jane Ure-Smith is based in London, UK. She is a journalist specializing in the visual arts and writes for publications including The Financial Times and The Economist.

Interviews , Opinion
Emeka Ogboh’s Hymn to a New Europe

At Edinburgh Art Festival, the artist’s polyglot take on ‘Auld Lang Syne’ brings together voices divided by Brexit 

BY Jane Ure-Smith |
Interviews
Michael Armitage on his Kenyan Roots and the Painting that Traumatized his Imagination Forever

With a new show, ‘Paradise Edict’ at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Jane Ure-Smith chats to the artist about his influences and the power parallels between modern politics and historic Christian art

BY Jane Ure-Smith AND Michael Armitage |
Reviews
We’re All in a Flutter About Rebecca Horn

Two riveting shows, at Centre Pompidou-Metz and Basel’s Museum Tinguely, showcase the 75-year-old German artist’s ingenious capacity for invention

BY Jane Ure-Smith |
Reviews
At Haus der Kunst, a Sweeping Retrospective of El Anatsui

An epochal exhibition of the Ghanaian artist – the last curated by Okwui Enwezor – gives the Munich institution a new face

BY Jane Ure-Smith |
Opinion
As Britain Suffers an Identity Crisis, Artist Mike Nelson Laments an Industrial Past

‘The Asset Strippers’, at Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, turns the museum’s elegant sculpture court into a salvage yard

BY Jane Ure-Smith |
Opinion
How Kader Attia Demonstrates the Radical Healing Power of Art

The Algerian-French artist’s new show at the Hayward Gallery, London investigates what a museum should be used for

BY Jane Ure-Smith |
Reviews
Mario Merz: The Art of Building an Igloo

A survey at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, views the artist’s oeuvre through the prism of the form he returned to constantly throughout his life

BY Jane Ure-Smith |