In the second part of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with multiple artists around the globe, we look at the impact of self-isolation, either due to sickness or preventatively, and financial implications.
Best-known for her sculptural and interactive later works, a survey of the first decade of the Brazilian modernist’s practice reveals her as a multifaceted, quicksilver painter.
Death has given Aubrey Beardsley the immortality of youth; and in future histories of illustration, whether for blame or praise, men must needs add that it was a mere boy who did these things, and did them as no other had ever attempted to do them before.
From an ancient forest to an Ikea stool, from musical instruments to makeup brushes, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin show the effect on trees of our insatiable desire for new designs.
A leading contemporary artist in Australia, Laurence talks about colonialisation and using her art to address the fragility of nature and climate change.
I had hoped this would be a show full of challenges and questions, but with its images of bodybuilders, soldiers, bullfighters and athletes, it failed to disrupt the archetypes.
This five-part essay, comprising conversations with multiple artists around the globe, looks at the far-reaching effects of the Covid-19 crisis on their livelihoods and practices, both negative, in terms of financial losses and future worries, but also lessons learned, communities built and new works inspired. Part one looks at the impact of cancelled shows and fairs.
In the largest exhibition of Beardsley’s drawings for 50 years, we see evidence of his exquisite practice and a dedication to drawing in a painfully short life and career.
Unzueta’s films, drawings and huge felt installations weave together traditional Chilean needlework skills with an exploration of nature, human labour and manufacturing processes.
From rejecting cultivated gardens in favour of wild spaces to using traditional craft rather than modern techniques, the artists in this show throw new light on how we look at the world.
A concise exhibition at Bastian captures the German-American painter manoeuvring between modernisms, endlessly experimenting in his attempt to marry the expressive with the pictorial.
The artist talks about his current exhibition at Gerald Peters, his first show in New York, his complex, collage-like paintings, his friendship with RB Kitaj and listening to Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane while he paints.
Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it.
This first major British survey of Gabo’s work in more than 30 years includes paintings, drawings, architectural designs and sculpture and shows his enduring influence on architects and designers.
Featuring artists including Marilyn Minter, Derrick Adams and Wong Ping, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s 11th iteration reflected its international outreach.
In this fascination fusion of art and science, the Lithuanian artist imagines sending visitors into outer space to create a new artificial planet made solely by human bodies.
In the first major exhibition of David Hockney’s drawings for 20 years, a focus on just a handful of sitters amplifies the importance of drawing in a career that has sustained Hockney for more than half a century.
This exhibition documents the hardships faced by Indigenous people from across the Americas as a result of climate and environmental changes – and should be a salutary tale to us all.
If you can move beyond the small size of the venue and the incongruity of hermetically sealed display vitrines, this show provides a chance to view Perry’s raw, angry and provocative early works.
Long-known as ‘the only female at the birth of abstract expressionism’, Romanian-born Sterne always denied being an abstract painter, and this gem of an exhibition makes it clear why.
This is the first major exhibition to pair the greatest painter of the baroque period with its greatest sculptor, along with several of their most accomplished followers. It’s a winning combination.
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