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  • Andrew Kinghorn interview

    Sculptor Andrew Kinghorn talks about architecture, colonialism, how his extensive travels through Asia and living in Australia changed his work – and how the love of his life became his muse

  • Made in LA 2025 Biennial

    The first edition of this now historic event opened the world to the City of Angels in 2012, tailing Europe’s well-established biennials with a burst of fresh energy that profiled greater Los Angeles as a thriving art hub, empowered its…

  • Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry

    A new exhibition of Barber’s work, the first in her hometown of Hastings, has her distinctive paintings, immersive and direct, on glued-together canvases or folded up into small squares, heavy and tactile and with a playful wink to art history

  • The Costume House: The Inside Story of Cosprop from A Room with a View to Game of Thrones – book review

    Film historian Keith Lodwick’s beautifully illustrated and educational book charts the success of costume house Cosprop and the influence of John Bright, the man behind it, on thousands of films and TV adaptations over more than half a century

  • Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin

    The Norwegian artist creates an eerie, gallery-spanning installation with green light for the Stedelijk

  • Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold

    Mutant crocodiles, slugs, rats and pigs populate a post-apocalyptic world, but despite the humour, Rock is deadly serious in her attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis and the state of our prison service

  • Marie Antoinette Style

    This show looks at the lasting influence of the young queen whose love of fashion and finery saw her scapegoated and derided by the public until her final untimely death

  • David Weiss: The Dream of Casa Aprile – Carona 1968-1978

    This show is a fascinating insight into how the idyllic village of Carona, nestled in the Swiss mountains, provided the young David Weiss with creative freedom and nourishment, surrounded by the fellow artists, musicians and intellectuals who gathered there 

  • Amalia Pica interview

    The Argentinian-born artist explains how chairs, daisy chains and bunting feed into her exploration of early years education, history, rituals, community and conflict resolution

  • Renee So interview

    As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the…