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  • Frans Hals

    Eight rooms filled with sumptuous embroidery and fine-spun lace worn by sitters with laughing, gurning and awed faces: The Laughing Cavalier is but one of a cast of many

  • Nimrod Vardi and Claudel Goy – interview: ‘We want to explore what it means to rethink the history of digital arts in the UK and worldwide’

    The co-directors of arebyte, a charitable organisation specialising in digital art, talk about being based in London’s new cultural hub, nurturing young and upcoming artists, and the current show by Zach Blas

  • LA roundup 2023

    To know the art scene in Los Angeles calls on a lifetime of cruising its streets, storefronts, museums, galleries and riverbanks. All are stages for creative expression, every neighbourhood is fair game for pop-up display, and now that LA artists…

  • Radical Landscapes

    A green and pleasant land or a place of aristocratic privilege for some and backbreaking labour and protest for others? An intriguing exhibition at William Morris’ Walthamstow residence explores how landscape art and radical politics have intersected

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto

    This survey spanning 50 years of the celebrated photographer’s works sees him bringing Madame Tussauds waxworks and stuffed animals back to life, freezing scenes in time and recreating seascapes 

  • Jonathan Baldock: Touch Wood

    In a series of newly commissioned works, Baldock immerses us in a mix of ancient and modern forms, inspired by myths and rituals spanning harvest festivals, folk art, medieval cathedral carvings and queer graffiti

  • Cybernetic Serendipity – a walk around the exhibition

    With artificial intelligence and its effect on creativity high on the agenda, now is the perfect time to revisit the ICA’s landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition of 1968  

  • Lawrence Lek: NOX

    In a vast three-floor installation, Lek turns what we think we know about AI on its head, as we follow the fictional Farsight Corporation struggling to fix the mental health crisis of a sentient self-drive car

  • Cat Dunn – interview: ‘I wanted artists who understood the traumas associated with political aspects of dual identity, but could still express aspects of joy’

    The curator of Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation, at St Andrews Museum in Scotland, talks about how she chose the 13 artists in the show, all of whom explore dual identity in their work, whether that be to do with…

  • Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization

    Pérez Córdova’s work addresses the passage of time, the nature of materials, and how we assign value to objects