Marlene Dumas’s paintings seduce with their brushy surfaces and saturated colors—and then, as soon as they draw you in, they twist the knife. The South African-born, Amsterdam-based artist’s ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, South Africa-born artist Marlene Dumas will have a solo show in New York. The exhibition, opening April 28 at David Zwirner in Chelsea, features brand new work, ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition of paintings by Marlene Dumas, a white South African artist who now lives in Amsterdam, is terribly dispiriting. She writes, “This is an exhibition about ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I have been looking forward to the Marlene Dumas exhibition at the Tate Modern since it was announced. Recently, its programme has ...

The first picture you see in Marlene Dumas’s show at the Palazzo Grassi is tiny: 30cm by 40cm. From the bottom of the steps leading from the Palazzo’s atrium to the landing on which it hangs, it looks ...

Her work has held the record for being the most expensive by a living female artist. So why have so few outside the art world heard of painter Marlene Dumas? On the eve of a major retrospective in ...

The day I meet Marlene Dumas at her studio in Amsterdam, her television is turned to CNN, where the hijacking of the kosher supermarket on the outskirts of Paris is being shown, along with the ...

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Marlene Dumas: the South African born painter's The Widow (2013) Credit: Photo: Peter Cox The new Tate retrospective for South African painter Marlene Dumas rather calls to mind the signing of a fancy ...