Archive

  • Noémie Goudal: Contours of Certainty

    She explodes our sense of landscape, form and material in the combination of ceramics with photographic compositions, blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion

  • Get the Picture – book review

    In this brilliant and amusing book, journalist Bianca Bosker infiltrates the world of art and the gallerists, collectors, curators and artists who people it. In her effort to understand what makes good art, she treks to numerous art shows, spends…

  • Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song

    Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinating backstory of its conception and making

  • Ed Clark

    Bringing together works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this is the first institutional exhibition in Europe of the groundbreaking artist who favoured a push broom over a paintbrush

  • Now You See Us. Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920

    Monumental and momentous, this exhibition does away with any lingering notion that there have been ‘no great women artists’, offering as evidence more than 100 names and 200 works

  • Hetain Patel – interview: ‘Getting to that essence of creation, which is self-expression: that is why this project exists’

    Alongside the artist’s own work, which includes a carpet-covered Ford Escort, is a cornucopia of submissions from artists, crafters, collectors and hobbyists, including elaborate cosplay costumes, football shirts, kites and even a Lego underground railway. Here, Patel takes us behind…

  • Lonnie Holley: All Rendered Truth

    The American artist and musician redeems humanity’s junk and reveals the dark histories of mundane objects

  • Dion Kitson: Rue Britannia* and Silver Lining**

    From pool cues resembling mops to a re-creation of a landfill pile, Kitson’s witty sculptures at the Ikon Gallery are a comment on class, identity and the state of modern Britain, while an old silver factory provides the setting for…

  • In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s

    A touring exhibition of art from Ukraine’s national museums captures the country’s distinctive contribution to the early 20th-century avant garde

  • Collidoscope: De la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective

    A feast for maximalists, the Mexican American brothers’ sparkling blown-glass sculptures and gaudy large-scale lenticular prints mix humour with a pointed critique of colonialism