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As the Ben Uri Gallery gifts a portrait of Sir Sydney Waterlow to the NPG, Dan Carrier talks to curator Sarah MacDougall about its painter, Mark Gertler

As the Ben Uri Gallery gifts a portrait of Sir Sydney Waterlow to the NPG, Dan Carrier talks to curator Sarah MacDougall about its painter, Mark Gertler

I was made welcome – today there is animosity and hate, she once said

The Great British Art Tour: Chagall leaves his dreams for a living nightmare With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio by Marc Chagall, in London’s Ben Uri gallery. Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio, 1945 by Marc Chagall. Photograph: Ben Uri Collection/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021 Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio, 1945 by Marc Chagall. Photograph: B...

Virtual: the new reality London Art Fair again points the way for the new year but, as John Evans reports, this time it’s different 21 January, 2021 — By John Evans John Craxton, Head of a Young Man, c1947-1948, oil on panel, 44 x 30cm, courtesy Osborne Samuel GALLERISTS, collectors, and all art enthusiasts should by now be enjoying the 33rd edition of London Art Fair at the Design Centre in Islington this week. The pandemic, however, has pushed this annual opener for the art-loving c...

/ The Ben Uri Gallery in London has just come up with a new operation model, better suited to the needs of relatively small outfits, such as itself. Or should I say that those who run it have been savvy enough to recognise that the contemporary art world has been massively changed, both by the effects of the COVID pandemic, and also by the forward march of technology, and are ready to make the most of it, knowing that the clock cannot be turned back. When a semblance of normality returns galle...