Archive
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Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spaces for dreaming and experimenting’
Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Pieski’s Sámi heritage as do her luminous painted landscapes and they work powerfully in her show at Tate St Ives to highlight systemic injustices to land and people
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These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture
In this joyous and eccentric show, Hoyland’s jaunty ceramic sculptures are shown alongside equally playful sculptures from contemporary artists including Hew Locke and Phyllida Barlow
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Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
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Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’
Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg
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Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus* and Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive**
Spanning master plans and covert models, these two exhibitions conjure up a point in the early 1930s when flows of international modernism infiltrated the British academic and political establishment
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Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
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Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making
After years of resistance, Poncelet has facilitated a full retrospective of 50 years of her work. Her inventiveness, material eclecticism and chromatic intelligence make her very much an artist for these times
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When Forms Come Alive
The Hayward Gallery’s spring exhibition is an effervescent playground of kinetically inclined sculpture that captures the drifting, mushrooming and vibrating movements of the natural world
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Paolozzi at 100
This show celebrating the centenary of the local artist who became internationally famous includes more than 60 works from his long career, along with a recreation of his studio
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Emily Kam Kngwarray
This major new show pays homage to Kngwarray, an Indigenous Australian who, though she only began painting in her later years, produced a prodigious amount of work and became internationally acclaimed
