From the October 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I can’t remember the last time I found myself in an exhibition trying to imitate a figure in a painting. Yet one of the paintings by Remedios Varo (1908–63) in the tightly curated retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago had me pulling imaginary drawstrings around my neck. I wanted to see what it might be like to steer one of
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