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One Fine Show: “Views of Vexation of Spirit” at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto
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See all of our newslettersBut the big names of turn-of-century Britain stand out in “Vexation of Spirit – The Duerckheim Collection x Serralves,” a major new exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto.
The show features 90 works by 34 artists, drawn from the collection Christian Count Duerckheim has assembled over four decades.
The industrialist has a clear interest in German painting, mixed with sterling examples of work by artists on White Cube’s roster.
Luing is the first entirely new British cattle breed in over a century, recognized by the British government in 1965.
In the absence of hope, the Duerckheim Collection shows how to find beauty in desolation.