Marlene Dumas, Whose Latest Show in Venice Is Drawing Rave Reviews, Has Managed to Avoid Market Speculation. Here’s How

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Marlene Dumas’s paintings seduce with their brushy surfaces and saturated colors—and then, as shortly as they draw you in, they twist the knife. The South African-born, Amsterdam-based artist’s explorations of lust, electricity, motherhood, and struggling are on screen in a breathtaking exhibition at François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the […]