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Tate Modern, 22nd June to 1st October, 2006.Review by Graham Buchan.“I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky – nor anything more true and nothing more beautiful.” Diego Rivera.One of the most extraordinary journeys in the visual arts was the one undertaken by Wassily Kandinsky. In his 50-year career he changed from a painter of landscapes in an impressionist style to the

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Tate Britain, October 18th 2005 – January 22nd 2006. The Turner Prize will be awarded December 5th 2005. It would be ironic if a piece of music helped to win this year’s Turner Prize, but I wouldn’t bet against it. Darren Almond’s video installation If I Had You has a wonderfully evocative piano piece by Richard James as accompaniment, and it perfectly supports the feelings of

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The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread. EMBANKMENT. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. 11 October 2005 – 2 April 2006. Rachel Whiteread is concerned with space. Primarily the spaces we use and inhabit, hence her most famous work House – a true-size moulded reproduction of the interior of a London terraced house erected in a park in Mile End in 1993 (and which was, despite winning the Turner Prize,

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A Picture of Britain: Tate Britain until 4th September 2005. This image: Philip Wilson Steer.A Procession of Yachts (1892-3)Tate Image Below:Dora Carrington. Farm at Watendlath. 1921Presented by Noel Carrington, the artist's brother 1987Copyright: Tate London, 2005 This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with a TV series, struggles to present its material coherently. Britain is divided up

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Image credit:The Broken Column, 1944,.Oil on canvas; 400 x 307 mmMuseo Do lores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City© Banco de Mexico and INBAL, Mexico, 2005Frida Kahlo. Tate Modern. Until 9 th October 2005.Review by Graham BuchanThis is an important exhibition of work by an artist who, partly due to the sympathetic bio-pic of a couple of years ago, has come to increasingly wide attention. Frida Kahlo

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