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Gabriele Münter, Listening (Portrait of Jawlensky), 1909 Lenbachhaus Munich,

Donation of Gabriele Münter, 1957 (Image via Tate Modern)

I am mildly obsessed with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) – a short-lived artists’
association that formed around Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc
in Munich in 1911. The group set out to change art, responding strongly to feelings and

emotions, which were given dramatic expression through the use of colour and often
stylised, geometrical form. Underpinning it all are experiments in modern life, belief
in the spiritual energy animating the world, and a language of colour believed to
express mood and behaviour. HJ

25 April – 20 October (tate.org.uk)

Pop

Olivia Rodrigo, Guts World Tour

It feels like the moment of truth for Olivia Rodrigo. Fresh off the Disney Channel, she

came barrelling into the pop industry in 2020 with a debut album, Sour, that generated
multiple accusations of plagiarism and seemed to be bolstered largely by her
“relatable” teen girl qualities. It also had a satisfyingly angsty feel, and so Rodrigo is