As two shows of her thrilling, carnivalesque drawings open in the UK, the Oslo-based artist talks about personal upheaval and the role of art in society.
This is a brilliant exposition of these four painters, who were working in Germany at the start of the 20th century, as they provide a female, and often astonishingly intimate, slant on motherhood, friendship, and city and rural life.
Expect the unexpected from this exuberant show of ceramic fine art, filled as it is with fantastical forms, uncanny creatures, unlikely shapes and unfamiliar scales.
In this, Qiu Zhijie’s first solo UK show, we must mentally navigate his ink map paintings, in which the conceptual is intertwined with the painterly, the painterly with the calligraphic, and we must physically navigate his paper reliefs, set out on the floor like an archaeological dig.
Riddy talks about his work over the years and his new show at Frith Street Gallery in London, which features nine landscape photographs made over two years, capturing a single scene in Norfolk across the seasons.
Designing a new building for the LSE, Grafton’s founders, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, were inspired by Georgian architect John Soane’s mastery of light in the building opposite. They talk about this and a shared social and spatial sensibility, revealed in an exhibition comparing their building and Soane’s.
A precisely focused exhibition takes us into the disturbing mind of the eccentric 18th-century artist Henry Fuseli through his troubling drawings of contemporary women.
Hall’s accounts of the changing nature of artists’ studios from Greek antiquity onwards are enthralling. It’s just a pity that he devotes so little of the book to the changes in this century and the last.
An internationally recognised artist in her own right, Strocchi has also spent many years in Central Australia mentoring Indigenous artists. She talks of how she was first moved by Aboriginal art and how she fought to carve out time for her career.
Paying lip service is not enough. The artworks in this exhibition, made by members of the mental health arts charity H’arts in Mind, cry out for an end to disability discrimination and for our society to start talking about and ending the stigma attached to mental ill health.
Two new series by the history-fixated Romanian painter see him tackle the woes of the digital age and showcase a new technique.
With his tree motorbikes modelled on Harley-Davidsons and bamboo fashioned from metal, Shi subverts the traditional Chinese scholar’s garden, mirroring the transformation of China from an agrarian nation into industrial nation with the positives and the perils that has brought.
In the 1970s, Willats worked with four socially disparate tennis clubs in Nottingham in a participatory project. This exhibition melds his contemporary insights into the same locations with those of 50 years ago.
Could one human’s lifetime of artistic knowledge be encoded? That is what Cohen set out to discover when he began work on what would become the AARON computer program.
One of only two female members of the vorticists’ group, her work was later sidelined. This show goes some way to redressing those years of obscurity, with her singular vision and artistry shining through.
The artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries and the director of the Maria Lassnig Foundation explain the significance of the Maria Lassnig Award for mid-career artists, and discuss the work of the 2021 recipient, the late Atta Kwami.
The artist talks about bringing her paintings to life through performance, diverse cultural and linguistic influences, and – the subject of her current show – the concept of a ‘female stallion’.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, reflecting his concern with the fragility of our environment, Orozco began to create an image of the plants around him each day in a small notebook, his work a curious mixture of precision, accident and downright messiness.
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people.
Linda Goode Bryant’s gallery and experimental space gave prominence to black artists and artists of colour in the 1970s and 80s. This show encapsulates the spirit of JAM, which did much to shape the landscape of contemporary American art.
Nottingham Contemporary takes a richly rewarding descent into the art of the underground: a place for ritual, transformation and storage depots.
This thought-provoking exhibition attempts to shift our attention away from the myths that surround Freud and on to his achievements as a painter.
Women and plant forms are intertwined among primal patterns and symbolism in Ishag’s seductive, vivid and otherworldly art.
