Archive
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Ania Dabrowska: ‘By the retelling of archival stories we have the power to articulate new ideas of how we want to formulate our own identities’
Ania Dabrowska (b1973) is a Polish-born artist now living in London. She works with photography, moving image, installation, text and sound, and has a particular interest in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has had…
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Technology and Art 10: LINGUISTICS AND TOYS AT THE ICA
“Increasing numbers of mathematicians and of engineers have joined them [poets, philologists and philosophers], attracted by technical problems, formerly ignored or considered trivial… Play Orbit…`toys, games and playables by people who are not professionally involved with the design of playthings,…
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From Ear to Ear to Eye: Sounds and Stories From Across the Arab World
This powerful show fuses art and music in an attempt to open ears and eyes to life in the Arab world
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy
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Cybernetic Serendipity 50th Anniversary
The Studio International special issue Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts was first published in July 1968 to accompany the ICA exhibition of the same name curated by Jasia Reichardt. Both the publication and the exhibition are now legendary
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Museum Gift of the Year: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine
As 2017 Museum Gift of the Year, Studio International has chosen the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine, a magnificent donation by Dr Alice Kandell of more than 200 precious Buddhist artefacts to the Arthur M Sackler Gallery in Washington DC
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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test
Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! joins an effort by progressive cultural institutions to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, an event that shook the world
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Köken Ergun: ‘In Turkey, the image of the soldier has been victimised by Erdoğan’
The Turkish film-maker talks about his 2005 video I, Soldier, and its relevance to the political situation in his country today
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Music From The Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles
Moving to Los Angeles at 19, having grown up in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha was always an outsider. His detached perspective is a quality that has remained in his work – which would become so concerned with the city –…
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Rose Wylie: Quack Quack
The octogenarian painter’s enormous, unpredictable canvases are by turns joyful and fearsome, introvert and extrovert, ordered and chaotic
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2017
It was all systems go – quality art, media buzz, more space, more work – but with a lower attendance and many big collector names absent, America’s premier art fair had a last hurrah undertow
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Shirazeh Houshiary: ‘We can’t fix our identity or our borders, the only real border is our skin’
Houshiary talks about evolution, Einstein and shamans, and how her work involves thinking in other dimensions
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Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting
This is a rich and expansive retrospective of Schneemann’s work over the past six decades
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John Stezaker: ‘I was trying to create a sort of photographic cubism’
The British artist discusses a series of 1970s collages that launched his career, and which have been brought together for an exhibition in New York
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Renovated Bass Museum Reopens
After more than two years and a $12m makeover by architects David Gauld with Arata Isozaki, the Miami Beach museum of art has opened its doors once again. It’s more spacious and welcoming and has some ambitious work on show
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Jeanne Mammen: The Observer. Retrospective (1910-75)
Mammen wanted to be “a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others”. This retrospective, although stretching beyond the best period of her observational work in the Berlin of the 20s, offers visitors…
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Impulse
Art critic Clement Greenberg coined the term ‘post-painterly abstraction’ to describe the work of the five artists in this exhibition – Morris Louis, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Frank Bowling and Kenneth Noland – yet, until recently, many of them haven’t…
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Yayoi Kusama Museum opens in Tokyo
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for her polka dots and pumpkins, opened her own museum in Tokyo in October, where she can permanently show her works and promote her message of world peace and love for humanity
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Modigliani
This extraordinary retrospective unites Modigliani’s portraits and sculpture with the largest collection of his nude paintings ever shown together in the UK, as well as allowing visitors a virtual reality tour of the artist’s Paris studio
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Nnenna Okore: ‘My work seeks to highlight Earth’s vulnerability and fragility’
Okore’s sculptures are poetic odes to the natural world. But beneath the delicate beauty there lies a pervading tension. She talks about how life and death in the natural world informs her practice
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William Kentridge: ‘One needs sometimes to show the power of the irrational world as a demonstration of the limits of the rational world’
William Kentridge talks about his recent performance of Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, dadaists and interpreting the world
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Carmen Herrera
Herrera’s abstract, geometric paintings pulse with life in this solo show. She was discovered late – she sold her first painting in 2004, at the age of 89 – and her work has a concentrated intensity that speaks of many…
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Louisa Fairclough: A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit
At the Danielle Arnaud gallery in London, Louisa Fairclough’s exhibition A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit uses a derelict mental hospital as metaphor for the turmoil of psychological trauma
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