Archive
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Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
This comprehensive exhibition guides us through the creative world of this Pritzker Prize-winning architect, whose vision and inventiveness have empowered the people who use his buildings
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Wong Ping: Golden Shower
At Kunsthalle Basel, Hong Kong-born animator Wong Ping creates a seductive physical world for his grotesque and sexually charged animations with installation and sculptures
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Allan Sekula: Photography, A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium
A career-spanning presentation of the late photographer and theorist shows an artist redefining the capabilities of his medium
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Laura Buckley – interview: ‘I enjoy watching the people in the work as much as the work itself’
Buckley talks about her sculpture and video Fata Morgana, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery, using her work as a catharsis for difficult times – and the pros and cons of the Instagram moment
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Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing
Although Henry Moore is best known as a sculptor, drawing was critical to his artistic practice. This exhibition is the largest of Moore’s drawings in more than 40 years
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Anne Imhof: Sex
Spending four hours at Imhof’s live works is like Waiting for Godot, for the slacker generation. The audience turns out to be the most fascinating element of the exhibition
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Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou
Kunz was a spiritual healer who saw her drawings – all done with crayons and pencil on graph paper and some aided by divination with a pendulum – as part of her research-led practice
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Biosphere – The Shed at Hudson Yards opens
Pioneering and Olympian, a $475m arts centre anchoring the south end of a shiny new enclave on Manhattan’s Lower West Side hopes to reach a broader community with immersive, intuitive and groundbreaking programming. Can emerging art thrive in such weighted…
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: The Word for World is Forest
Step into this show and you find yourself immersed in the Brazilian rainforest, as the artist draws you in with installation, film and VR to highlight the plight one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems
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Ronny Sen – interview: ‘The work is about the apocalypse in a certain way, where everything will go to the fire and the dust’
Sen talks about photographing the out-of-control fires burning underground in the coal mines of Jharia, India, how he ensures every image has something it reveals and something it hides, and the death of Kolkata
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Jos Tilson – interview: ‘Motherhood is a form of creativity, and one which I totally believe in’
Tilson has combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern art alongside an obsessive approach to sculptures in clay. She talks here about Italy, her passion for architecture and what’s wrong with the #MeToo campaign
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The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel
The exhibition is not only a visual and intellectual tour de force, but also offers spiritual fulfilment, immersing the viewer in an atmosphere of exploration of ancient Buddhist concepts and practices as seen through contemporary art
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Drawn Together Again
With 120 artists to choose from, this drawing show is stuffed with treasures. There is something here for everyone
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Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable
This overarching retrospective covers Holzer’s 40 years as an artist activist, from her printed slogans on T-shirts and condom-wrappers to LED and kinetic sculptures
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Elizabeth Price: Felt Tip
Prehistoric ferns, corporate ties and hairy-legged stiletto wearers are among the things Elizabeth Price’s video works throw at you, as the Turner prize-winner investigates seismic change in manual and white-collar labour
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David Austen – interview: ‘I think Dr Seuss is as great as Picasso’
On the occasion of Underworld, a new exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the artist talks about writers who have influenced him, from Camus to Dr Seuss, his recurring dream of being chased by a naked lizard woman, and why he…
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Leon Kossoff: A London Life
A career-spanning exhibition of the London artist confirms his status as the quintessential painter of the capital’s inner peripheries
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How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
Rosie Cooper and Sarah McCrory’s stunning retrospective pays homage to an artist group at work beyond the artworld’s centre
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Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature
For those hoping to see the shared sensibilities and sensitivities of two of the world’s most famous artists, disappointment may be in store: the similarities explored are mostly superficial and the exhibited work is 90% Hockney
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Equilibrium: An Idea for Italian Sculpture
A striking exhibition presents works that examine and play with the notion and execution of equilibrium in a multifarious array of sculptural forms
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Gerda Scheepers: Rooms
The Cape Town-based artist presents new work at Glasgow’s Mary Mary Gallery, creating a subversive, melancholic and yet quietly comical homage to the frustrating everyday
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John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing
Marking the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, this exhibition, the first of many across the UK this year, celebrates the artist-critic-collector’s intentional legacy, the Guild of St George, and his lessons in using looking and drawing as conduits to understanding
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Matheus Parizi – interview: ‘Artists are compelled more than ever to make work about what is happening in the street. Art has to be political.’
Parizi talks about the current right-wing climate in Brazil, cuts to funding for the arts, and his new short film First Act, which he made as a direct response to the political events in his country
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John Bellany and Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic
From his collection, Damien Hirst has produced a tribute to the passionate and visionary work of two Scottish artists he admired
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