Graffiti! The recent dust-up over three Los Angeles skyscrapers raises the question: defacement or fine art? Follow its history, from marked-up rocks to NFTs, and weigh in.
Macuga, whose exhibition Born from Stone is now on view at the London Mithraeum, discusses the potent allure of caves for the human psyche, a complicated relationship with her native Poland and the inexorable reiteration of violence throughout history.
As her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary draws to a close, the multidisciplinary Peruvian artist has opened a major solo exhibition in Dundee, exploring the connections and contradictions between ancient and modern mythologies and iconographies, impacted by colonial erasure and modified through speculative fictions.
The sculptor and citizen of the Caddo nation talks about her forthcoming show at Salon 94 in New York City, the giant bronze figure at its centre, and how she mixes her ancestral narratives with popular contemporary culture.
The urban planner behind the concept of the 15-minute city talks about why it is now an urgent necessity worldwide and considers why the idea of limiting car use has become so controversial.
Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated.
This exhibition calls back to the surface a hidden gradient of software art development since the 1990s and links it with a material and historical turn in digital art of the present.
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This year’s festival urges us to believe that, collectively, we can build a better future. And while there are no miracle cures, I came away from it with a feeling of hope.
From the northern soul scene to farmers and a world boxing champ, photographers have captured images of their own communities, at the same time calling out middle-class assumptions of what constitutes good taste.
The artist explains his fascination with the Book of Enoch, long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer.
The sculptures, masks, lithographs and tapestries in this exhibition introduce a cast of characters from the fantastical other worlds of the English Mexican surrealist artist’s magnificently mad mind.
With works from the 17th century to today, from Edwaert Collier to Duncan Grant and Maggi Hambling, this exhibition shows that still life, once seen as the lowliest of genres, has much to offer.
I wanted to like Rachel Cusk’s latest experimental novel, in which she writes about various artists, all known only as ‘G’. The truth is that I found it alienating and irritating and struggled to finish it.
The Berlin techno club provides the perfect setting for a pioneering game-making artist whose works hold visitors responsible for their actions.
Mother, wife, sister and daughter to artists who have eclipsed her deserved fame, this charming exhibition is one big family album, focusing on a woman who, during her lifetime, sought to hide in the shadows.
A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history.
The artist talks about the 3D models in his earlier exhibition, Kiosk, at Summerhall, Edinburgh, including End of the Pier Show, now on permanent display there, and why Brexit has been so bad for Britain and for artists.
His children may appear unrealistic and simplistic, but they pulsate with a complexity of emotional pain that exceeds our idea of innocence, as if the kids carry the imprint of the adult world’s woes.
The Young V&A has been awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award. The institution’s director discusses the museum’s creative transformation and its vision to build a community programme for deprived children living along the Thames Estuary.
At a time when the WHO says pollution is the biggest threat to our existence, this immersive show explores the air we breathe and its geological, cultural and political significance, with work from artists including Isabel Nolan, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramović and Alex Cecchetti.
For 50 years, Kennard’s activist art has railed against corporate and state power, wars and poverty. And as this exhibition spanning those five decades shows, his outrage has not abated.
The London-based Venezuelan artist talks about her commission at Harewood House, her exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects and her inclusion in the curated ceramics section Smoke at Frieze London 2024.
A compelling exhibition turns back the clock to the last Paris Olympics, where art, photography and sport collided like never before and athletics entered the age of celebrity.
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