Freire Barnes

🎨Creative Director, 🖊 Culture Editor.📱Creator of @LondonPublicArt app. 👩🏼‍🎓RCA grad @RCA. Formerly Time Out, Bon, Dazed&Confused. Views my own.

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

Just a few #FriezeLondon highlights. Inc #thebreeder #joshlilley #damienandtheloveguru #highart

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks.

[Johnny Caldwell @Johnny_Caldwell]

☘️ My traditional sharing of The Muppets’ incomparable version of Danny Boy in honour of St Patrick… Shake your shamrocks for Animal, the Swedish Chef & Beaker… 🤓☘️

#StPatricksDay #StPatricksDay2024

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@culturaltutor The dog is a sign of fidelity

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@culturaltutor The colours of the clothes are important, she is in blue, as lapzis lazuli was as expensive as gold ans sumbolic of virgin mary and green because she would be considered fertile. He is painted in regal purple with fur trim, signs of wealth and importance

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@culturaltutor The lit candle represents the presence of god

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Delved into the archives for this gem at the 2009 @friezeofficial #artfair interviewing @Slotover for @Dazed #digital #Throwback #friezeartfair

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I have to admit I’m sucker for Frans Hals’ flick and flare brushwork, perfectly expressed in these delicious tiny pendants, which are possibly of his children who were described as ‘fervent musicans’
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#franshals @NationalGallery @vmfamuseum #painting

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

On route to #franshals preview @NationalGallery. Curious if it deserved the @guardianculture ⭐️⭐️ review
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Image: Frans Hals, Portrait of a Couple, probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen (detail), about 1622. @rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

[Tate @Tate]

‘Requiem’ is a new site-specific mural by Chris Ofili at Tate Britain. Spanning three walls, ‘Requiem’ pays tribute to fellow artist Khadija Saye and remembers the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire. https://t.co/h3Szw3ENb6

‘Requiem’ 2023 (detail) © Chris Ofili

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

Ooo it’s the #turnerprize preview at @TownerGallery this morning!

[Tate @Tate]

📢 JUST IN: 2023's #TurnerPrize nominees!

🎉 Jesse Darling
🎉 Ghislaine Leung
🎉 Rory Pilgrim
🎉 Barbara Walker

An exhibition of the four artists' work will open on 28 September 2023 at the iconic @TownerGallery in Eastbourne. Read more: https://t.co/XF0GJxBh6O #TurnerPrize2023

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

A little something I wrote for @TheArtsSociety_ Step into the light with #RanaBegum which includes her @Pitzhanger show and @TheLineLondon commission. (Her @CristeaRoberts has been extended to Sep but closed in Aug)
https://t.co/NhHyiwa6LU

[Eden Project @EdenProject]

Our Pollinator Pathmaker garden has burst into life 🌼🌿🌸 The living artwork designed by artist @daisyginsberg is for pollinators including bees, moths and beetles to enjoy, but humans can delight at it too!

Learn more → https://t.co/vl4AToPTfh

#WorldNatureConservationDay

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

Well the holiday is certainly over when you breakdown on a hot French motorway and miss your trains back home 😢

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

@eurostar @EurostarUK can Customer Services pls help us. After a motorway breakdown this morning we’ve missed our Montpellier train to Paris and need to change our 16.13 Eurostar back to St Pancras Int’l. Also traveling with our 2 year old.

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A reminder of the flux we are in, the destruction we create, the worth we attribute and the traces we leave behind #corneliaparker @tate

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On route to @Tate’s first major survey of #CorneliaParker. Making me think of when I interviewed her for @BBC Collective at her @ikongallery exhibition back in 2007 https://t.co/WlWYdvc9oj

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

So sad to hear about the passing of @diannbauer I had the utter pleasure of interviewing her for the #InsideArt online video series I did for @Dazed back in 2007

[La Biennale di Venezia @la_Biennale]

#BiennaleArte2022 Golden Lion for Best National Participation to the #BritishPavilion. “#SoniaBoyce proposes, consequently, another reading of histories through the sonic. In working collaboratively with other black women, she unpacks a plenitude of silenced stories.”

[Ukrainian Pavilion at Venice Biennale @UApavilion]

The 59th La Biennale di Venezia is now officially opened!
"The Fountain of Exhaustion. Aqua Alta" is waiting for its visitors. We are eternally grateful to everyone who made it possible. See you in Venice!

Photo: Yevgen Nikiforov

#LaBiennalediVenezia
#BiennaleArte2022

[Freire Barnes @freirebarnes]

So sad to hear of #LawrenceWeiner’s death. I had the privilege of interviewing him for @Dazed for my #InsideArt video series back in 2008 about his @Lisson_Gallery show. What a legend. A huge loss. https://t.co/uB6A0eWOIz