Orlando Whitfield recounts the behind-the-scenes story of his friend and one-time business partner Inigo Philbrick, the charismatic man finally sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent art-dealing.
This exhibition explores uncharted territory not only by tracing Max Liebermann’s visits to Italy but also by revealing how much interest Italians showed in the works of this German impressionist.
Finally, 256 years after Angelica Kauffman became one of its founding members, the Royal Academy is giving a solo exhibition to the artist who, despite the challenges to her sex, more than earned her place in history.
Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women talks about manufacturing, mythology and submerging work underwater.
After years of patriarchal prudishness and censorship, the vulva is now considered acceptable art world imagery. But does its dominance in Judy Chicago’s biggest UK institutional show so far reveal progress in gender equality or just her marketability?.
He was a young Black artist who railed against racism and sickness, both personal and in society. This retrospective, more than 25 years after his untimely death, is a reminder that his work is as relevant today as it was in his lifetime.
Barlow’s playful approach turned found objects into composites that shone, while nodding to the artists she loved. Following her death last year, the curator here has attempted to reimagine rather than repeat her installations.
The world may define Los Angeles by Hollywood, but the culture is better represented by the art.
This glorious show recreates much of the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside works from the traditional Salon that same year. And it does so both through the original artworks and via a state-of-the-art virtual walk through the impressionists’ world 150 years ago.
Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as the two Poles, Emma Stibbon’s drawings and installations serve as monuments to what may all-too-soon be gone.
Molnár plays with geometry and form, exploring shape, line and colour, using algorithms and computers to generate work in which humour bubbles under. Sadly, she didn’t live to see this retrospective to honour her 100th birthday.
This multifaceted exhibition positions the artist Amedeo Modigliani among his contemporaries, traces the art historic roots that make up his unique style and highlights his early documentation of the modern woman.
The inaugural exhibition in this repurposed grain silo presents works from the Tangen Collection, demonstrating the markedly different styles of Nordic modern artists.
Among a flotilla of known artists, curator Santiago Rumney-Guggenheim has launched a few lesser-known names in an overview from 1920 to 2014, a time when art changed at a head-spinning pace.
Ambiguous, talismanic, intangible, meticulous – Kimsooja’s immersive installations explore themes of being, non-being and coming into being.
A new museum dedicated to George Wyllie, a truly unique figure in the recent history of Scottish art, opens in Ocean Terminal on the River Clyde.
Interweaving childhood memories and imagination with the history of painting, Matthew Krishanu creates narrative series of universal relevance.
A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreements between the expressionist artists associated with the Blue Rider.
When does an artistic trope stop being art? The incessant repetition of Yinka Shonibare’s trademark batik print is starting to wear thin.
Refusing completion, Marisa Merz’s works bear traces of the studio, materially suggesting a state of perpetual mutability and mobility.
Recycled jute coffee bags, plastic pizza and a heap of wet wipes – for Iceland’s Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Birgisdóttir takes a wry look at our consumerist society and the mixed messages we absorb subliminally.
In the gardens of Castle Howard, north Yorkshire, Tony Cragg talks about his different sculptural series and the juxtapositions, links and contrasts they bring to the stately home’s permanent collection, architecture and landscape.
This vast and varied show celebrating the work of indigenous artists from North and South America, Oceania, and the Nordic region is a joy.