Archive

  • Noble Prospects: Capability Brown and the Yorkshire Landscape

    To mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great 18th-century landscape gardener, this exhibition brings together portraits of Capability Brown and his clients, along with original plans, drawings and documents

  • Katie Schwab: ‘I like the idea that works can begin to generate their own history once they enter people’s homes’

    Keen to learn traditional, craft-based skills, the artist explains why she is drawn to processes where she has a direct hand in production, staying in contact with the things she is making and the people she is working with

  • SFMOMA’s extension: a new visual vocabulary

    With Snøhetta’s new building now open, SFMOMA has more exhibition space than Manhattan’s MoMA, and more dedicated walls for photography than the Getty, and with its vast collection, it is an essential destination for any art lover

  • Xu Yong – interview: ‘Negatives act as witness’

    Twenty-five years after Tiananmen Square, the Beijing-based photographer took the brave decision to publish his images of the event in negative form. Here, he talks about his work

  • Setouchi Triennale 2016

    Once every three years, the islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea are transformed by an influx of artists bringing new ideas through a variety of works and installations

  • Kienholz: Five Car Stud

    Even with its harrowing subject matter, Edward Kienholz’s controversial civil rights work deserves to be celebrated. This exhibition examines it in its original context of display, alongside other, often disturbing, works from 1959-1994

  • The Neo Naturists

    Disaffected by the politics of Thatcherism and an art world overtaken by masculine neo-expressionism, the Neo Naturists covered their nude bodies in paint and burst on to the 1980s’ London club scene in an attempt to explore body image and…

  • Raqib Shaw: ‘I really don’t give a fuck about the so-called contemporary art world’

    In his converted home and studio in south London, surrounded by dogs, myriad staff, an exquisitely kept bonsai collection and apparently endless reserves of champagne, the artist discusses childhood, gardening and his route to becoming a painter

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker: An Intensely Artistic Eye

    Following the artist’s progress from a small German artists’ community to the bright lights of Paris, this exhibition captures Modersohn-Becker’s constant striving to simplify and distil the essence of her subject

  • Daniel Sinsel

    A pulse of eroticism runs through this collection of Sinsel’s new work, as he teases the distinction between painting and sculpture, using materials ranging from the ordinary to the rarefied

  • The world is yours, as well as ours

    This exhibition takes the visitor on a whirlwind tour of some of China’s most recent abstract work, ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle

  • Dana Schutz: ‘I think of the viewer as the painter’

    The artist talks about deciding to become a painter when she was 14, how Alice Neel and the Velvet Underground made her want to move to New York, why she isn’t on Facebook or Instagram, and why it’s bad to…

  • The New Blockheads

    This retrospective looks at the work of a group of performance artists from St Petersburg in the late 1990s, who used irony, the grotesque and absurdism to reflect the transitional and uncertain world around them

  • Michael Joo: ‘I was taken by the fact that there was a space that was inaccessible but real’

    The New York-based conceptual artist talks about growing up among scientists, what drew him to working with silver nitrate, the endangered red crane in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea

  • 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (BB9): The Present in Drag

    Mixing physical locations with digital content, The Present in Drag is a brilliant parody that builds a clever, self-deprecating critique of the present, presenting the visitor less with an experience than with a lifestyle

  • Georgia O’Keeffe

    Tainted by the myth of erotic undertones, O’Keeffe’s work is shown by this long overdue retrospective to be far broader and more brilliant than is widely known. But it still doesn’t entirely do her justice

  • Kate Whiteford: ‘By confronting simple questions, bigger ones emerge. That is the essence of my work’

    The artist talks about her new work, now on show at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, looking at how Capability Brown transformed the English landscape through the manipulation of scale and perspective

  • Alice Channer: ‘The area in between the subject and the object is the area I want to locate in my work’

    The artist, who used everything from cigarette ash to microbeads to create her work, talks about cyborgs, beehives, and the problem with solid sculpture

  • Performance, Audience, Mirror

    Celebrating moving image from the 1960s to the present day, this exhibition explores experimentation, performance and documentation in film-making

  • Pierre Lassonde Pavilion

    The new pavilion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec is a glorious building that nearly doubles the complex’s exhibition capabilities

  • Co-thinkers

    The focus of this exhibition, with work by canonical American and European artists, is less on the art itself and more on being inclusive for all those who visit to enjoy it. As one of the curators says: “Disability does…

  • Cui Xiuwen: Light

    Cui Xiuwen is a conceptual artist best known internationally as a video film-maker and photographer. A creator of progressive and provocative work, she began her career as a painter and has recently returned to making paintings and sculpture, exploring contemporary…

  • Carlo Carrà: Metaphysical Spaces

    The works presented here show some of Carrà’s key metaphysical works, charting his jettisoning of movement, fragmentation and volatility in favour of calmer, more cryptic and perspective-bound compositions

  • Winifred Knights (1899-1947)

    Knights was a prodigious talent, yet she has been virtually ignored for the past half a century. Now, a retrospective of her paintings at the Dulwich Picture Gallery could change that. Director Ian Dejardin tells Emily Spicer why Knights is…