Art to See in London This Fall During Frieze London, visitors can experience Marina Abramovic’s performance art, discover El Anatsui’s installations and view works by Daniel Richter.

Daniel Richter

He’s one of the more compelling painters of our time, and you can see a range of new works at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London. Oddly, they have a link to the McCarthy era. The paintings are inspired by the song “Nightmare,” written in the 1940s by Hanns Eisler, a German émigré who became an Oscar-nominated writer of Hollywood film scores before being investigated (on suspicion of Communist leanings) by the House Un-American Activities Committee. One of the first artists to be blacklisted by Hollywood, Eisler left the United States for good in 1948.

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