Archive

  • Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

    The two men from working-class Scottish backgrounds met at art school and became inseparable. This exhibition charts a tale of love, fame, drunkenness and tragedy

  • Push the Limits: Culture Strips to Reveal War

    A diverse group of works in this exhibition at Fondazione Merz show how contemporary art responds to conflict

  • Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition

    Against a background of divisive global politics and hysteria around migration, the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi prize focus on the losses endured by displaced peoples, and the disempowerment arising from imposed colonial narratives. We review this…

  • Jumana Emil Abboud – interview

    ‘We can be anything we want to be through the stories we can make and unmake’

  • Anawana Haloba – interview

    ‘With everything that’s going on in the world, we talk about things, but we really don’t listen’

  • Rhiannon Hiles, chief executive, Beamish Museum – interview

    Winner of the world’s largest museum prize, the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year, Beamish, an open-air social history museum in north-east England, was described as ‘a joyous, immersive and unique place’. Rhiannon Hiles tells us all about it

  • Anna Ancher: Painting Light

    Whether depicting women at work, children playing on the beach or locals at prayer Anna Ancher’s light-filled paintings are a joyful celebration of life on Denmark’s Skaw peninsula

  • Wright of Derby: From the Shadows

    The National Gallery reunifies Joseph Wright of Derby’s trio of candlelit masterpieces, while revealing some of the painter’s lesser-known marvels

  • Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life

    A luscious selection of sweets, cakes and pies seduce us at this, the American painter’s first UK museum show. But was he celebrating the American dream and its values or critiquing it?

  • A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle

    This visually thrilling exhibition is a revelation. Pivoting around Mrinalini Mukherjee, it also celebrates key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including seminal work by her parents and other important south Asian artists