Lawrence Murray
Lawrence Murray is an Antwerp-based art historian, writer, and founder of Guilloche Group, an independent curatorial platform for contemporary artists. He writes on exhibitions, the auction market, and the meeting point of art and technology — in English, Dutch, and German. He studies Art History at KU Leuven, sits on the advice board of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, and trained in provenance research at Bernaerts Auctioneers.
Articles by Lawrence Murray
A first-hand account of the inaugural Art Basel edition in Doha — its ambitions, its atmosphere, and what it signals for the Gulf's cultural axis.
ReadNotes from Antwerp's nineteenth Museumnight — a nocturnal survey of the city's institutions, their programmes, and the crowds they gather.
ReadOn the Paris sale of the Onzea-Govaerts collection at Christie's, staged by Axel Vervoordt as a meditation on taste, patina and the collector's eye.
ReadBritish artist Ian Berry's Istanbul exhibition Beyond Denim reframes an everyday fabric as portraiture, still life and quiet social study.
ReadA visit to Museum De Reede's Dürer exhibition in Antwerp — a print show that rewards slow looking and a taste for the graphic line.
ReadIn Tokyo, Gucci revisits its 1947 Bamboo bag — an object study of craftsmanship, iconography and the long life of a house archetype.
ReadThe eighteenth edition of Antwerp's Museumnight, reviewed — earlier programming, earlier crowds, and a night the city belongs to its museums.
ReadOn Willy Vanderperre's Antwerp exhibition — prints, films and a rave — the fashion image restaged as an installation of youth, city and desire.
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