Archive
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Frances Walker: ‘For me, art is all about being able to communicate with someone I haven’t even met’
The Scottish painter Frances Walker, now in her 80s, talks about her time as an art teacher, her fascination with Pieter Bruegel, and visiting Antarctica
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NS Harsha: ‘I am like a cook. I love to make a dish, offer it to the people, and wait for a reaction’
The Indian artist NS Harsha on how his latest paintings embody the notion of ascent, an idea he says has been hijacked by religion, why he prefers flatness to perspective, and why he has a duty to be mad
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Penny Slinger: ‘Being different is just who you are. What you do with it is up to you’
Penny Slinger on how Tantric art changed her life, dealing with sexual identity in art, using her body as both subject and object in her work, and a lifetime of crossing boundaries
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Painting Now
Painting Now is a survey of contemporary painting, historically the most important form of the visual arts, but challenged by the advent of photography in the 19th century and pronounced dead by Marcel Duchamp when he exhibited his readymade urinal.…
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Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986
In the purpose-built Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Arts Council Collection has brought together the work of 40 artists from between 1977-1986, a period that saw the emergence of a new young generation of British sculptors
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Tina Keane: ‘With film, you never quite know what you’re going to get’
Multimedia artist Tina Keane talks about her early work, the influences that have developed her practice, and her primary concerns as an artist making work today
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The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
This exhibition of the art of the Plains Indians reminds us about the native US population’s story of struggle and survival, as European conquerors took over their ancestral lands
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Anita Witek: ‘I am opening up a gap between image and reality’
As she was installing her first UK solo exhibition, How to work live better, Austrian artist Anita Witek talked about how she has used magazines to create photomontage while subverting their content
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Diana Thater: ‘When someone walks in, they are part of the work. They’re inside the work of art’
US new media artist Diana Thater explains what drew her to the subject of her latest work, the monkeys of the Galtaji Temple in Jaipur
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Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals
In this exhibition of new and recent projects, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla explore the history and origins of human music not only as a means to define the boundaries between man and animal, but also to communicate across their…
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Selective Memories
Paris comes to west London as the Griffin Gallery hosts an exhibition of works by the students of l’École des Beaux-Arts. So what is it like to study at a French art school?
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: ‘But is it art? I don’t even care’
Performance artist and Turner-prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd explains why she turned her attention to designing a children’s play area for a London leisure centre
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Iman Issa, Lexicon
In her latest exhibition at the Rodeo Gallery, London, Cairo-born artist Iman Issa takes existing artworks that attempted to capture the zeitgeist of their time and creates new versions that have resonance for a contemporary audience
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Daniel Zolli: ‘Competition was in the air these sculptors breathed. It could be a fight to the death, artistically speaking’
As the Museum of Biblical Art hosts this momentous exhibition of renaissance masterpieces, co-curator Daniel Zolli explains why Florence Cathedral’s sculptural embellishments are such masterful and enduring treasures
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Paul Chan: ‘Times have changed, and I have changed, and I wanted something else’
Paul Chan is a versatile artist and writer, working in video, installation, publishing and the internet, whose work probes our assumptions about the nature of visuality and visual art
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Fashion it may be, in that every item in this Alexander McQueen retrospective is for wearing, but art is its soul. This show, which charts the trajectory of the designer’s meteoric life is stunning, glorious and unmissable
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Five Issues of Studio International at Raven Row
Studio international visited Raven Row in East London to talk to writer and curator Jo Melvin about the exhibition she has curated titled Five Issues of Studio International
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Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market
Full of impressionist masterpieces, this exhibition looks at how art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel struggled to convince a sceptical public of the merits of these works and, in doing so, shaped today’s art industry
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Hadieh Shafie: ‘I take things from my culture and marry them to my western art education’
Hadieh Shafie makes transformative objects that hover between painting and sculpture, integrating her roots in Persian culture and her training in the west
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Florian and Michael Quistrebert: Visions of Void
This beautifully drafted exhibition by the Quistrebert brothers is focused, enthralling and atmospheric, with hypnotic videos and paintings that intend the viewer to feel rather than think
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Jason Rhoades, Four Roads
From smoke machines to salmon roe, Jason Rhoades’s art of the bizarre and the ‘gleefully vulgar’ at Gateshead’s Baltic Centre will entice and excite. Unless you are under 18 – in which case you won’t be allowed in
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David Best: ‘My favourite material is people’
Known for the temples he builds for the Burning Man event in Nevada, David Best has this year brought his idea to Derry~Londonderry. He talks about how his art helps people to deal with grief
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Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s
A beautiful exhibition of the Ukrainian avant garde’s theatre design from the 1910s and 20s is establishing a sense of identity for the art of a nation that has been split between its historical ties to the union with Russia…
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2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
Surround Audience includes some strong works, but the New Museum’s Triennial 2015 bombards you with pieces that compete for attention, so while video- and sound-based works hold their own, quieter, more conceptual pieces are easily overlooked
