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  • Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light

    With work from 1875 to 1925 alongside medieval works, this exhibition considers how modern Nordic and northern European artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch were influenced by the gothic aesthetic

  • Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva

    Her subject matter may be serious – nationality, identity, migration and displacement – but the exuberance and joy in her sculptures and textile works shine through

  • Mohammed Z Rahman: Remember to Live

    Rahman’s comfort zone is in the miniature, but with a vision that is hopeful not hellish, evoking the small and intimate moments of everyday lives, the people and houses bathed in deep, saturated colours

  • Frieze Los Angeles and Felix Art Fair, 2025

    A much-needed tonic after the fires laid us low, Frieze art week did take place, the city’s art community showed up and visitors poured in from across the globe. Although one of the four participating fairs (Spring Break) chose not…

  • Tarot – Origins & Afterlives

    Foreteller of fate, conduit for common sense or magic? Tarot has been used as a tool for decision-making since the 15th century. A new show explores its Renaissance origins, its evolutions and adaptations and its enduring appeal for artists and…

  • Anselm Kiefer: Early Works

    Challenging and shocking, the German artist fearlessly confronts his country’s Nazi past with grand political statements

  • Louisa Gagliardi – interview: ‘Something really important in my work is how disconnected we feel in this hyperconnected digital world’

    At the opening of her show at MASI Lugano, Gagliardi says she draws from Renaissance art and surrealism, film and TV as much as social media, to create digitally manipulated images and printed portraits and landscapes that express the isolation…

  • Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings

    A fascinating exhibition gathers the juddering, gyrating drawings of this Franco-Belgian poet, which capture the nauseating reality of psychedelic drugs

  • McArthur Binion. Rawness Dancing: With Intellect

    Three series of paintings by the American artist are brought together for the first time in this exhibition in Belgium

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

    Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood