Archive

  • Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘Put all those rotten politicians under pressure – that’s what we should do’

    By bringing politics into art, the artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, hopes to bring art into politics and to see art education and democracy firmly on the agenda both in London’s forthcoming mayoral elections and…

  • Jim Shaw: The End is Here

    This first comprehensive retrospective of Jim Shaw to be held in New York, which includes his own work and his collection of modern-day Americana, verges between the deeply serious and the darkly comedic

  • GR Iranna: ‘I treat all forms that I create with equal compassion – whether it is a tree or a carpet’

    As he prepares for a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, the artist explains that, despite a move towards more abstract works, the human element in his painting and sculptures is still implicit

  • Martino Gamper: British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…

  • Rachel Maclean: British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…

  • Ryan Gander: British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…

  • Laure Prouvost: British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…

  • Miranda Donovan: Metaphors for Mankind

    Hidden deep in subterranean Shoreditch, Miranda Donovan’s multi-layered works reflect the rawness and vulnerability of the contemporary human condition

  • Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting

    This major retrospective showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri, who took up painting after being sent to a prisoner of war camp during the second world war

  • Marie Kaus: ‘I have this inherent need to leap’

    The artist discusses her current show with Adeline de Monseignat at the Cob Gallery, why she did a headstand in one of her works, her need to jump off things, and how she became artist in residence at the UCL…

  • Ryan Gander: ‘The best art provokes you without you even realising’

    The artist discusses his latest exhibition, Fieldwork at the Lisson Gallery, London, why he put his phone number on the billboard outside, the use of Picasso’s signature by Citroën, and why a child’s reaction to art is so interesting

  • Frieze Art Fair 2015

    Frieze London 2015 reveals buyers’ anxieties, a swell in the Asian market and an increased focus on live art

  • Eileen Hogan: ‘I find out what really matters to me through working from memory’

    The artist talks about being taught to draw in two very different ways by Euan Uglow and Frank Auerbach, her fascination with Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Scottish garden, and her desire to invest visual experience with meaning

  • Ciara Phillips: British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…

  • Jordan Casteel: ‘My perspective is one full of empathy and love’

    In her second solo exhibition, the American painter offers a new series of portraits that seeks to reinterpret visions of what it means to be a black man in the US today. Here, she talks about her work

  • Goya: The Portraits

    Put aside notions of the tormented artist plagued by demons and haunted by nightmarish visions and meet Goya, the loyal friend and mischievous court painter

  • Derek Boshier: ‘I think I’ve turned from pop artist to popularist’

    The artist rails against technology and right-wing newspapers, tells of his aspirations to create an entire exhibition in one day, and shares some – at times almost side-splitting – stories from his colourful career

  • British Art Show 8

    Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades

  • Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

    This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.

  • John Hoyland: Power Stations: Paintings 1964-1982

    Damien Hirst’s impressive new gallery opens with a sensitively curated show of one of Britain’s most renowned abstract artists

  • Sculpture in the City 2015

    Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City is showing 14 works by contemporary artists around London’s Square Mile

  • Stella Ioannou: interview

    Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City shows contemporary art pieces around London’s Square Mile. The co-director, architect and art manager Stella Ioannou talks about the exhibition

  • The Fabric of India

    Every square inch of fabric in this exhibition has a story to tell, from a sweat-stained talismanic shirt to an opulent Mughal-style tent. The closer you look the more you will see

  • The World Goes Pop

    In Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, curators Jessica Morgan and Flavia Frigeri make an ambitious attempt to widen the geographical boundaries of the pop art movement of the 1960s and 70s