At the White Cube 
Peter Campbell
The exhibition of Anselm Kiefer’s new work at White Cube Mason’s Yard (until 17 March) is entitled Aperiatur Terra – ‘let the earth open’ – the reference is to Isaiah 45.8: ‘Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.’
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Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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At Tate Modern · Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials
At the British Museum · Living, Dying and Enlightenment
At Tate Britain · Howard Hodgkin
At the National Gallery · Pisanello
At the National Portrait Gallery · being photographed
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In the Physic Garden · Peter Campbell in Chelsea
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