Archive

  • Francis Alÿs: Ricochets

    The Belgian artist’s thoughtful new exhibition transforms the Barbican into a bustling global playground

  • Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale

    A prolific portrait painter from the 17th century, Beale left a far-reaching legacy and espoused a progressive partnership of equality with her husband, which enabled her to become one of Britain’s first professional female artists

  • Garth Evans – interview: ‘There has to be the sense that the physicality of one’s being is engaged’

    In the lead up to his 90th birthday, the sculptor talks to Sam Cornish, curator of A Place in the World, his current exhibition in Mexico, about the role of colour in sculpture, the necessity of working without concern for…

  • Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance

    Augustus John was a star around whom many significant artists were in orbit. This enlightening exhibition paints a lively picture of their interface

  • Thinking Like a Mountain

    Not so much a festival as a cultural programme that runs over two years, Thinking Like a Mountain aims to weave stories between nature and culture, with events and exhibitions taking place in and around Bergamo, to alert new audiences…

  • Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

    This exhibition focuses on the 1910s, the most radical and experimental period of an artist who individually, and as a member of the Bloomsbury set, changed the face of British art

  • Watch! Watch! Watch! Henri Cartier-Bresson

    This comprehensive retrospective of the French master of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on his political side while also presenting a wider perspective on his work chronicling the 1930s to the 1970s

  • Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life

    Moody’s sculptures fizz with life in this beautifully paced show, in which the Jamaican artist’s works sit alongside those of contemporaries such as Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore

  • Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud

    This show, about the imprints of the human body, and which includes three new commissions – two tapestries and one of his ‘dust cloud’ installations – is conversely light and celestial

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939 – book review

    Robyn Asleson’s beautifully illustrated book follows women such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Peggy Guggenheim, who, freed from the restrictions of gender, sexuality and race in the US, became leading avant garde figures in early 20th-century Paris