Archive
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Jompet Kuswidananto: ‘I am dealing with a culture that is never really fixed’
The Indonesian artist explains his work for Sonica 2015 and how he seeks to use sound installation and performance to evoke the feeling and experience of living through a political regime change
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Matthew Barney: River of Fundament
Film, opera, sculpture, ancient Egypt, contemporary industrial America, Normal Mailer – this exhibition has it all. But making sense of Matthew Barney’s five-hour, epic film and the works inspired by and made for it, is not easy – nor is…
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Courtney J Martin: ‘Robert Ryman makes a lot of difficult things look incredibly easy’
The curator of Dia: Chelsea’s Robert Ryman exhibition, discusses the seminal American artist’s six-decade career, and explains the importance of bringing Ryman’s work to new audiences
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Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings,…
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Noah Davis: Imitation of Wealth
The opening of this exhibition, which should have been a day of celebration, sadly became a day of mourning marking the death of the artist at the age of 32. In what has become Davis’s final completed project, his intellect…
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Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954
The exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art opens up a new perspective on the role of prints and drawings in the development of the artist’s oeuvre
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Liu Ye: ‘Dick Bruna is more important to me than Da Vinci’
The Beijing-based artist on how seeing Bruna’s Miffy was seeing himself in a mirror, and why the most important thing about a painting is that it requires the viewer to spend a lot of time looking at it
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Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein
As part of the Artist Rooms series, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is showing 16 key works by Roy Lichtenstein, spanning three decades and three rooms. His wry sense of humour and memorable images are as…
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Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity
Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom
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Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945
The first of its kind in France, this exhibition shines a light on the great accomplishments of early female photographers in Europe and the United States
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Unorthodox
New York’s Jewish Museum courts the unconventional in a powerful group show that its curators claim ‘is not only about artistic independence but ultimately about individual freedom’
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: ‘I just create works that give a sensation of something’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, God’s Reptilian Finger, and the inspiration he drew from Guatemalan history, YouTube videos, The Book of Mormon and conspiracy theories
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The Turner Prize 2015
The winner of the Turner Prize will be announced on 7 December. If art holds up a mirror to society, then this year’s Turner nominees cast some thought-provoking reflections
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Vanessa Baird wins Norway’s prestigious Lorck Schive Art Prize 2015
The Norwegian artist, an uncompromising but vital talent, was the deserving winner of one of Europe’s major art prizes
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Mat Collishaw: ‘I think human beings are always drawn to the slightly illicit’
With two concurrent exhibitions in the north of England, Mat Collishaw talks about the human race’s predilections for violence, debauchery and crime
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Vibha Galhotra: ‘I am a traveller, an observer of situations’
The New Delhi-based conceptual artist discusses the role of the environment in her practice, as well as the complex site-specific issues she chooses to explore
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Mark Leckey: Dream English Kid 1964-1999AD
The Turner Prize-winner returns with a short film that sees him dig deeper in his exploration of British culture and the various youth subcultures that existed in the final 35 years of the 20th century
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Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015
Nineteen emerging artists respond to the demands of the digital age in this annual exhibition devoted to new photography, offering expanded possibilities for depicting the real, the remembered and the imagined
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The Body as Language: Women and Performance
This historically salient show, examining the birth and development of performance art in relation to gender, the body, language and the expression of the self, marks the 40th anniversary of a seminal book on the subject by Lea Vergine
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Kathy Hinde: ‘I’m really interested in combining visual art and music’
The audiovisual artist and composer talks about mixing up sound and art, working with a glassblower, a software programmer and scientists, and mapping bird flight and hidden Scottish burns
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Balthus Retrospective
Marking the 15th anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic painters, this grand exhibition is showing around 200 works of art of Balthasar Klossowski de Role, known as Balthus
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Francisco Vidal: ‘It’s an artist’s role to dream’
The artist’s colourful paintings and his relaxed persona belie the inspiration behind his work. But while war and violent revolution lie at the heart of much of his art, so, too, do hope and a heartening optimism
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Emily Jacir: Europa
For the first time in the UK, the artist is exhibiting her award-winning Material for a Film. Alongside this central work is nearly 20 years’ worth of sculpture, film, drawings, installations and photography
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Alice Cunningham: ‘The quarries were my biggest inspiration’
The artist talks about her experience of learning to work with marble from Michelangelo’s preferred quarry and her determination to remain sensitive to the form and the surface as a whole
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