The Easel

30th August 2022

Emma Talbot: The Age/L’Età at the Whitechapel Gallery review – a true visionary

Ben Luke | The Evening Standard | 30th June 2022

Talbot is having a moment – being hung at the Venice Biennale and winning a major art prize that comes with a solo show. The show takes the story of Hercules and reimagines it with an older woman protagonist. It’s a neat twist that allows Talbot’s paintings, which fuse “patterning, abstraction and lyrical figuration”, to extol matriarchal wisdom. One critic wonders if this makes the show “overtly feminist”. Not at all, says this writer “[Talbot] is a true visionary”.

The British Museum Takes the Feminism Out of Feminine Power

Anna Souter | Hyperallergic | 30th August 2022

A London exhibition explores female deities across world religions. They turn out to be a varied lot, not all of them gentle nurturing types. Some critics like the show but there are more than a few who don’t. One of the latter calls it “shrill and preachy”, pushing “feminist readings on to unruly ancient art”. However, the above writer grumbles about the opposite, that the show gives insufficient weight to feminist perspectives. Perhaps the curators got it about right. Images are here.

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