Archive

Sargent and Fashion

This show looks at how Sargent styled his sitters, insisting they wore certain garments or rearranging them, using fashion as a tool to reveal their personalities
Francis Picabia: Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950

A career-spanning exhibition of drawings and watercolours shows the elusive modernist at his most direct
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change

The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 historical and contemporary works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You

As poetic as it is urgent, Barbara Kruger’s text-based work packs a weighty punch. Her methods of direct address implicate the viewer, leaving no space for complacency
Moon/King: The Work and Friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon – 1956 to 1973

The pair met as students at Cambridge and remained friends until Moon’s death at the age of 39. This vibrant and colourful exhibition makes clear the influence they had on one another’s work
The Korean Moment

A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in Korean art. The most compelling is the Hammer Museum’s Only the Young
Harold Cohen: AARON

Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for creating art, conceived by the pioneering British painter Harold Cohen
Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’

The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

Spanning seven decades of the artist’s groundbreaking work, from the 1950s to now, some done with John Lennon, the takeaway message is the hope that perhaps world peace really is possible
Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and narratives in order to understand themselves and their shared connections’

Robinson, whose exhibition Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph is now at the London Mithraeum, considers his reimagining of arcane lost worlds, Jungian dream theory and the potential curse incited by layers of ancient mythologies being incorporated into a contemporary temple of finance