Archive
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SUPERSTRUCTURES: The New Architecture 1960-1990
Forty years after it opened, the Sainsbury Centre plays host to an exhibition looking at the pioneering designs of architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Rogers in the latter half of the last century
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Lilah Fowler: nth nature
The exhibition nth nature, a new body of work by Lilah Fowler, explores feelings of transience and dissociation in response to increasingly pervasive networks of global transport and communication
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Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings
The great modernist writer serves as a presiding spirit in an inclusive, multifarious group show, displayed in the town that triggered her childhood imagination
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Panorama Punjab
Committed to placing this marginalised sector of India in the light once again, film-maker Sarah Singh has given Punjab its first international arts festival, a phoenix of contemporary and traditional creative expression, arisen in Patiala in front of the mighty…
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Ingela Ihrman: We Thrive
The Swedish artist’s works and her theatrical pieces – which include a giant hogweed, a giant otter giving birth and a toad doing gymnastics – make us look at the human race’s relationship with the natural world and the effects…
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Murillo: The Self-Portraits
A small number of Murillo’s rare portraits are brought together at the National Gallery to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth. But what can the only two self-portraits he painted tell us of the man himself?
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Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy
Despite passages of naked voyeurism, the Tate’s blockbuster intoxicates with passion, power and the pleasure of unbound creativity
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Jedd Novatt: ‘I feel the same tension about the next work as I did 40 years ago – the same tension of wanting to achieve something I’m looking for’
In advance of an exhibition of new works, Novatt talks about his long career making geometric sculptures in industrial metals and discusses the thinking behind them
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Langlands & Bell – video interview: ‘We like to be catapulted into the unknown; we like a challenge’
For their new show at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, Langlands & Bell have turned their shared gaze on to the giants of the technological age – among them Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook – and the structures they have created as…
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The Armory Show 2018
This year’s Armory Show offered viewers an impressive selection of works by a wide range of artists from around the world. Curated sections emphasised performance and installation, as well as interactions between art and technology. The enduring influence of postwar…
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Robert Irwin
Irwin’s immersive installations, with their experimental approach to light and space lead the viewer to question their own phenomenological experiences
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Alexandra Kokoli and Basia Śliwińska: ‘As long as ‘home’ remains confining … it will continue to loom large in art practices informed and committed to feminism’
Curators Kokoli and Śliwińska and artists Małgorzata Markiewicz and Su Richardson talk about the exhibition Home Strike at I’étrangère in London
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Su Richardson: interview
Su Richardson talks about her crocheted works, made in the 1970s, and also more recently constructed body parts “indicating bitter fantasies”
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Małgorzata Markiewicz: interview
Krakow-based artist Małgorzata Markiewicz talks about her video The Resistance Kitchen (2017), responding to the policies from the current rightwing Polish government that violate women’s rights
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Cinthia Marcelle: The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare
In her first major UK solo exhibition, the Brazilian artist shows the importance of collective action in an exciting experiment in the occupation and transformation of publicly accessible space
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Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
Presenting Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Gerald Laing in dialogue with each other within the context of their pop-inspired pointillism, Source and Stimulus is a vibrant study of the origin of the Ben-Day dot in fine art
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Cary Leibowitz: ‘I hate my aesthetic. I wish I was delicate and elegant and smart and earth-shattering’
For his first major retrospective, the undersung American artist fills the ICA Philadelphia with more than 300 works that span a 30-year career. Leibowitz discusses how he established himself as an artist in the 1980s and 90s, and the origins…
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All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
Tate Britain’s All Too Human explores family, sex and death, and offers a fantastic chance to explore what connects some of the biggest names of the past 100 years
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Alge Julija Kavaliauskaitė: ‘There is something about glass that I am continually drawn to’
Kavaliauskaitė, originally from Lithuania but now living in Finland, talks about art and alchemy, haunted mansions, her latest exhibition and why she was drawn to live in Nuutajärvi, a village famous for its glass-blowing
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Anthony McCall: ‘The sculptural aspect of a piece occurs only at the moment of projection’
The pioneer of immersive, sculptural light installations explains his process and procedures, interests in performance, film and architecture, and his new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield
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Sam Stewart: ‘From a psychological perspective, working in someone’s home is a loaded experience’
For his first solo exhibition, artist-designer Sam Stewart transforms an unoccupied space within a New York townhouse by imagining the life of its mythical occupant
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Cybernetic Serendipity: History and Lasting Legacy
Catherine Mason considers the ICA’s groundbreaking computer art exhibition of 1968 and looks at how it has shaped digital art in the 50 years since
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Claudia Wieser: ’I know there is the danger of beauty in my work, or a danger that it becomes purely decorative’
Ahead of the opening of her current show at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser discusses her references from 1970s TV to Greek plays, and the danger of making work that is too beautiful
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Evelyn Hankins: ‘Mark Bradford’s project directly challenges the idea of a single or objective transcription of history’
Hankins, senior curator at the Hirshhorn museum, explains how a collaboration with Mark Bradford led to the artist’s monumental cyclorama Pickett’s Charge, and why the subject, the 1883 Battle of Gettysburg, still resonates today in the US
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