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2025

A NEW RETROSPECTIVE AT AMAR GALLERY PAYS HOMAGE TO HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR: THE ARTIST HISTORY FORGOT.

HARPER'S BAZAAR

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THE OTHER DE BEAUVOIR: REMEMBERING A FORGOTTEN TALENT AT LONDON’S AMAR GALLERY

OBSERVER

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HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR, SISTER TO SIMONE, GETS HER STAR TURN AT AMAR GALLERY

ARTNET

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‘JEAN-PAUL SARTRE HID AT HER HOUSE!’ THE FORGOTTEN BRILLIANCE OF HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR, SISTER OF SIMONE

THE GUARDIAN

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A TRIBUTE TO HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR “THE WOMAN DESTROYED”

WHITE HOT MAGAZINE

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THE REDISCOVERY OF THE ART OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S SISTER HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR, WHOSE CAREER AS A PAINTER WAS PARTLY FUNDED BY SIMONE, IS THE LATEST ‘LOST’ FEMALE ARTIST BEING RECLAIMED.

THE SPECTATOR

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HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR. THE WOMAN DESTROYED AT THE AMAR GALLERY IN LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

MEER

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HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR: THE WOMAN DESTROYED THE LESSER-KNOWN OF TWO SUCCESSFUL SISTERS IS GIVEN HER RIGHTFUL PLACE IN 20TH-CENTURY HISTORY THANKS TO AN ASSIDUOUS GALLERIST AND LOYAL FRIEND

STUDIO INTERNATIONAL

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“THE WOMEN DESTROYED” AT AMAR GALLERY: HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR’S ART OF STRENGTH AND SURVIVAL

FEMME TECH

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HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR: THE WOMAN DESTROYED A TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FIGURES OF FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING

I-M MAGAZINE

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THE WOMAN DESTROYED: THE FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION OF HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR IN LONDON 

ODALISQUE MAGAZINE

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AMAR GALLERY LISTED IN THE TOP 5 PAINTING EXHIBITIONS TO SEE IN LONDON, AUTUMN 2024

FAD MAGAZINE

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HOW WALKING SHAPED SIMONE AND HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR’S ART AND THOUGHT

LITERARY HUB

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“THEY LOVED EACH OTHER, HELPED EACH OTHER AND CONFRONTED EACH OTHER”: HÉLÈNE DE BEAUVOIR PAINTED IN THE SHADOW OF HER SISTER SIMONE

EL PAIS

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2024

AMAR SINGH, AN ART DEALER, HOLDS THE PAINTING TAOS IV BY LAWRENCE CALCAGNO AT THE AMAR GALLERY IN CENTRAL LONDON.

THE TIMES

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LONDON’S AMAR GALLERY THIS WEEK OPENS AN EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO THE LARGELY OVERLOOKED ITALIAN-AMERICAN ABSTRACT ARTIST LAWRENCE CALCAGNO

FINANCIAL TIMES SHA

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ART AND RESISTANCE: LAWRENCE CALCAGNO AT AMAR GALLERY

WHITE HOT MAGAZINE

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LEGACY RETOLD REDISCOVERING LAWRENCE CALCAGNO, THE FORGOTTEN GAY ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

HERO MAGAZINE

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LAWRENCE CALCAGNO: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST MASTER

MEER

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AMAR SINGH IS CHAMPIONING UNTOLD ARTIST’S STORIES. AMAR GALLERY'S LOVE LETTER TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST LAWRENCE CALCAGNO IS A MASTERCLASS IN INCLUSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY CURATION

FETCH MAGAZINE

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AMAR SINGH BRINGS AN ART REVOLUTION WITH HIS RECENT EXHIBITION LAWRENCE CALCAGNO: REDUX AT AMAR GALLERY

INDIA.COM

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RARE PHOTOGRAPHS BY DORA MAAR CAST PICASSO’S TORMENTED MUSE IN A NEW LIGHT

THE GUARDIAN

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LEE SHARROCK TALKS TO AMAR GALLERY FOUNDER AND ACTIVIST AMAR SINGH

FAD MAGAZINE

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A NEW SHOW CELEBRATES SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHER DORA MAAR ON HER OWN TERMS

ARTNET

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MICHAEL KLEIN ON DORA MAAR

WHITEHOT MAGAZINE

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DORA MAAR: BEHIND THE LENS

ART PLUGGED

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DORA MAAR: BEHIND THE LENS

ARTLYST

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ACTIVIST AND ART DEALER AMAR SINGH REOPENS GALLERY IN LONDON

INDIA TIMES

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‘I AM EXCITED TO REOPEN AMAR GALLERY IN LONDON’: ART DEALER AMAR SINGH

FINANCIAL EXPRESS

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LONDON BASED ACTIVIST, ART DEALER AMAR SINGH SET TO REOPEN HIS ART GALLERY

DNA INDIA

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LONDON BASED ACTIVIST & ART DEALER AMAR SINGH IS REOPENING AMAR GALLERY IN LONDON

NEWS X

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DORA MAAR: BEHIND THE LENS 

I-M MAGAZINE

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THE REINTERPRETATION OF A FEMALE ACTIVIST AHEAD OF HER TIME

HOORNIKART.COM

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DORA MAAR EMERGES FROM PICASSO’S SHADOW AT AMAR GALLERY

CULTURALEE

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Previous Press

AMAR SINGH SELECTED FOR FORBES 30 UNDER 30

FORBES MAGAZINE

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Intent on addressing the art world's gender imbalance, Amar Singh opened Amar Gallery to champion post-war and contemporary female artists, a collection that now includes the Guerrilla Girls, Renee Cox, and Helen Frankenthaler. The gallery also runs the online platform CURATED, supporting emerging female artists.

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NICOLA PLANT'S PARTICIPATORY VIRTUAL REALITY EXHIBITION OPENS IN LONDON

FAD MAGAZINE

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Nicola Plant’s exploratory practice invites the audience to use their own inherent expressivity as the re- search matter of a work that assiduously examines how it can be possible to translate the visceral experi- ence of our inner ux of emotions and sensation into a communicative form of movement.

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VANITY FAIR'S PICK OF FREIZE WEEK IN LONDON

VANITY FAIR

 

Amar Singh’s eponymous Islington gallery has a simple but laudable ethos, specializing in exhibitions of LGBTQ and female artists with diverse, progressive narratives. Raised in London but a member of the royal Kapurthala family of Punjab, Singh was one of many political campaigners who made up a global coalition that last month recorded a landmark legal victory in India, overturning the country’s 2013 criminalization of gay sex. Now, Amar Gallery is turning to one of the lesser-known histories of art, with an exhibition of the women behind Abstract Expressionism in 1950s and 60s America.

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LETS HEAR IT FOR THE LADIES WHO PAINT

SPECTATOR

 

Amar Singh, the owner of Amar gallery, is a tireless advocate for women’s rights in his ancestral homeland of India, and a champion of female artists at his gallery. But he is emphatic that this emphasis not entail a dilution of quality: ‘I’m only concerned with showing good art, but so much work has been overlooked due to the gender of the artist creating it. I hope this show and the mission of the gallery helps to correct this imbalance.’

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FIFTIES BOYS CLUB TO ANGEL HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

ARTLYST

 

“The exhibition brings together a collection of works from key cultural female artists of the time – were are back in the 1950s downtown Manhattan, in the biggest market period, when the abstract expressionist movement made New York city the capital of the art world and changed the face of contemporary art.

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST WOMEN ON THE RISE

FAD MAGAZINE

 

Around 65 years after its productive highpoint, it’s interesting to speculate how the history of abstract expressionism will look in another 65 years. By the time pop and minimalist tendencies came to be seen as the newer vanguard, the received story concentrated almost entirely on white men: Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Newman, Kline, Motherwell…) Hiding In Plain Sight’ (at the Amar Gallery to Dec 13) provides a stimulating chance to see the women of abstract expressionism.

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THE DAILY MAIL QUOTES AMAR SINGH ON INDIA'S LEGALISATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY

DAILY MAIL​

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Amar Singh, Amar Gallery's director, has been an LGBT rights and women's rights activist in India for over a decade. September 2018 marked the legalisation of homosexual acts in India in a monumental Supreme Court verdict. 

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ARDENT AESTHETE: IN CONVERSATION WITH AMAR SINGH

VERVE MAGAZINE

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Verve Magazine highlights Amar Gallery, along with the human rights work of Amar Singh.

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THE ARTIST CELEBRATING BLACKNESS WITH 24-KARAT MAGIC

HUNGER MAGAZINE

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There’s a sense of majesty about Lina Iris Viktor’s portraits. The British Liberian artist uses an opulent black and gold colour palette to renegotiate ideas about blackness and the African diaspora. Bringing together religious symbolism, cosmology and indigenous history – Lina’s intricate pieces position black as the colour from which all things come forth, the origin of all forms of life.

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GOLDEN GIRL: THE 24-KARAT WONDERS OF LINA IRIS VIKTOR

THE GUARDIAN

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This British-Liberian artist uses gold, black and little else to create mesmerising works that draw on age-old techniques.

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AMAR GALLERY INTERVIEW

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The New York Times highlights Amar Gallery's new exhibition by Lina Iris Viktor and Amar's human rights work. 

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HARLEM: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Amar Singh for the Cooper Gallery, Harvard University

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Harlem is no stranger to the challenges of social turbulence and cultural upheaval. In many ways, these challenges are the very bedrock upon which this neighborhood is built. Harlem was at the center of two defining movements of the twentieth century: it was the fervent crucible of the artistic, literary, and musical renaissance that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the beating heart of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Though blessed with one of the most vivid and identifiable cultural and social legacies in modern America, it is also fitting that Harlem currently reflects the anxieties that have contributed to the volatile political landscape of the post-9/11 world. In a time when xenophobia is coming back to the fore, communities are forced to again confront issues of alienation and exclusion. It therefore feels more important than ever to celebrate a Harlem that transcends these boundaries, its soul on display in a series of works that evokes a true sense of nostalgia for Harlem—a Harlem that once was, and one that shall endure.

HARLEM: FOUND WAYS

COOPER GALLERY​ - HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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With the exhibition Harlem: Found Ways, the Cooper Gallery presents artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades. Each artwork employs a distinct set of inquiries and innovative strategies to explore the Harlem community’s visual heritage as it grapples with the challenges of gentrification. The artists have found ways—urgent, complex, intense, and mindful—to present the tangled threads of dilemma and paradox, memory and memorial, beauty and poignancy, and also instances of disruption and resilience within Harlem’s new realities. Collectively, they offer deeply thoughtful reflections and provocative portrayals of Harlem, allowing us to see it anew in this moment of transformation.

 

The fifty-five artworks, encompassing photography, mixed media, and installation, are anchored by photographer Dawoud Bey’s two portrait series: the iconic “Harlem USA, 1975–79;” and his recent series of urban landscapes “Harlem Redux, 2014–16.” A selection of works from Abigail DeVille, Glenn Ligon, Howard Tangye, Nari Ward, and Kehinde Wiley, expand and define various emergent issues in the temporal zone located between Bey’s two portrait essays. Found Ways also features a special installation of The Studio Museum in Harlem's project Harlem Postcards, 2000–2017. Featuring Amar Gallery. 

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ONE ARTISTS FRENZIED TAKE ON 

THE TRADITIONS OF OLD MASTERS

VICE

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Links, a new exhibition at Amar Gallery in London, features the abstract, animated figure drawings of Australian-born artist Howard Tangye. A retired teacher of famous designers, such as John Galliano and Stella McCartney...

HUFFINGTON POST​

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London welcomed the opening of a new commercial art gallery this month. The Amar Gallery, situated round the corner from Islington’s Chapel Market, aims to be not only a place to view art but also to act as a community hub in which a range of local business events can take place... 

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FINE LINES: HOWARD TANGYE INAUGURATES AMAR GALLERY WITH HIS REVEALING SKETCHES

WALLPAPER MAGAZINE​

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London welcomed the opening of a new commercial art gallery this month. The Amar Gallery, situated round the corner from Islington’s Chapel Market, aims to be not only a place to view art but also to act as a community hub in which a range of local business events can take place... 

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