The first edition of this now historic event opened the world to the City of Angels in 2012, tailing Europe’s well-established biennials with a burst of fresh energy that profiled greater Los Angeles as a thriving art hub, empowered its recognised artists and introduced emerging ones.
A new exhibition of Barber’s work, the first in her hometown of Hastings, has her distinctive paintings, immersive and direct, on glued-together canvases or folded up into small squares, heavy and tactile and with a playful wink to art history.
Film historian Keith Lodwick’s beautifully illustrated and educational book charts the success of costume house Cosprop and the influence of John Bright, the man behind it, on thousands of films and TV adaptations over more than half a century.
The Norwegian artist creates an eerie, gallery-spanning installation with green light for the Stedelijk.
Mutant crocodiles, slugs, rats and pigs populate a post-apocalyptic world, but despite the humour, Rock is deadly serious in her attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis and the state of our prison service.
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This show looks at the lasting influence of the young queen whose love of fashion and finery saw her scapegoated and derided by the public until her final untimely death.
This show is a fascinating insight into how the idyllic village of Carona, nestled in the Swiss mountains, provided the young David Weiss with creative freedom and nourishment, surrounded by the fellow artists, musicians and intellectuals who gathered there .
The Argentinian-born artist explains how chairs, daisy chains and bunting feed into her exploration of early years education, history, rituals, community and conflict resolution.
As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the commodification of objects, and what constitutes good design.
Two sculptures, a video and a non-fungible token, by four female Polish artists, have much to say about the times in which we live.
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A playful exhibition of Picasso’s work at Tate Modern highlights the performative nature of the artist and his world.
The American painter Susan Roth talks about working in the ‘trenches of our time, where time bends and folds’, the ‘roiling’ surfaces of her shaped canvases, her recent works in synthetic stone, and being filled with ‘radical hope’.
From ectoplasmic photography to the psychedelic drawings of mediums, this exhibition looks at the past and present of haunted art.
British architect Asif Khan has reinvented a Soviet-era cinema as a space for experimentation and collaboration. Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is Kazakhstan’s first major public building designed to encourage, educate and celebrate the region’s contemporary creatives, artists and audiences.
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A conduit for 500 years of Sikh knowledge, this two-artist exhibition, with significant input from Without Shape Without Form, offers more than simply art for art’s sake.
Prepare to be awed by the sheer talent of this great American painter, whose works revive the history painting for the modern age.
This is powerful encounter between two major female artists whose work confronts gender, oppression, colonialism and politics.
From Scottish herring girls to the Gaza genocide, this exhibition is about belonging and identity.
Following the publication earlier this year of a Thames & Hudson monograph on his art, John Walker talks about how the landscape of Maine suits his work, his admiration for Brâncuși and why, if the world were on fire, he would rescue Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride.
Tracking the artist’s development from local student to ‘father of modern art’, 135 works made by Paul Cezanne in and of his beloved home town of Aix-en-Provence have returned to the city for this intriguing exhibition linked to the restoration of his family home.
This retrospective brings the German South African artist back into view, while tracing her position within German expressionism and the impact she had on modern art in Africa in the 20th century.
An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees protecting our planet as a mature form of feminism.
This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms.
