Laura Gascoigne

Nobody paints the sea like Emil Nolde

Plus: a nautical show in Hastings shines a light on some little seen treasures from the national collection

‘Sea With Two Smoldering Steamboats’ , c.1930, by Emil Nolde 
issue 11 June 2022

In April, ten years after opening its gallery on the beach in Hastings, the Jerwood Foundation gifted the building to the local borough council. Thrown in at the deep end without a permanent collection, Hastings Contemporary, as it is now known, has to sink or swim on the strength of its exhibition programme.

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