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Carla Carlisle: ‘Sometimes, repetition brings revelation’

Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.

Sometimes, repetition brings revelation. Think of the retrospectives of artists. At the vast Cézanne show at the Grand Palais in 1996, I lost count of the apples: Still Life with Apples, Basket with Apples, Apples and a Pear. The artist who saw the world in an apple painted 270 applescapes.

Two years ago at the Courtauld, I saw the haunting exhibition of 17 van Gogh…

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