Archive
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Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed
The Florentine painter’s life was sadly short, but his technical virtuosity shines through in the few works in his first monographic exhibition
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Jake Grewal – interview: ‘I don’t know where I make work from other than my experience and emotional response’
Grewal, whose compelling first solo institutional exhibition is now showing at Pallant House Gallery, discusses his painterly exploration of self through an amalgamation of automatic writing, direct, in-the-moment observation and a close attunement to his most personal experiences
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Bruce Munro – interview: ‘I was constantly telling people about this large-scale light project that I had to do at Uluru at all costs. I was obsessed’
Munro dreamed of installing Field of Light in the Australian desert. He explains how the monumental installation, involving 52,000 solar-powered lights, became a labour of love that took 24 years to come to fruition, saw him remortgage his house and…
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Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez and their Students – book review
This book shows how Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez, teaching at a small arts college for just a few years in the early 20th century, had a lasting effect on the theory and practice of the craft
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Gego: Measuring Infinity
The vibrant sculptural works in wire and metal for which Gertrud Goldschmidt is known are complemented in this major retrospective by etchings, prints and textiles, all of which expose her genius for conjuring movement and energy with the simple line
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Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother
The spirit of these works was forged by Sjöö in the 1960s and beyond, but their political urgency remains fresh and potent in an exhibition that turns attention to the power of the Great Cosmic Mother
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The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time
With more than 300 original posters from the early 1900s to the present, this exhibition honours the genre’s colourful history and draws attention to some of its little known aspects
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Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler
This exhibition celebrates the 80th birthday of the pioneering conceptual artist, from his early output in the 70s to contemporary works that build on his original ideas in a practice that includes cybernetics, advertising, artificial intelligence and behavioural theory
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Emilio Prini: …E Prini
A retrospective of the arte povera intellectual is not for the fainthearted. But it rewards perseverance
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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art – book review
Lauren Elkin draws on female ‘art monsters’ who have broken taboos around society’s expectations of womanhood, to reveal the complexities of living in a world where women are expected to appear pure and unsullied
