Archive
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Tom Phillips: ‘I’m still reading books. Nothing changes and everything changes’
Tom Phillips talks about his love of words, the human drive to make marks and the more spiritual side of his work
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Joseph Kosuth: ‘I was always interested in the limits of language and there’s no better way of demonstrating that than with definitions of colours’
On the occasion of his curated installation at Mazzoleni, Joseph Kosuth, the pioneer of conceptual art, speaks to Studio International about his insistence that art must question and elicit meaning, the impoverishment of art’s critical bite under market domination, and…
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Frank Quitely: The Art of Comics
The Glaswegian comic-book superstar Frank Quitely is celebrated in this new exhibition of his famous work
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Jenny Crompton: ‘I enjoy sitting in the work for hours. It becomes a meditation’
Australian artist Jenny Crompton explains how she made her installation Sea Country Spirits, and talks about discovering her Wadawurrung heritage and how it changed her practice as she moved away from man-made materials to using materials she collects from the…
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Florian Hecker: Synopsis
Florian Hecker manipulates digital sound and our perception of it in this installation commissioned for Tramway
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Lee Lozano: c 1962
Merging human organs and household objects, Lee Lozano’s early miniatures are erotic and unsettling in equal parts
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Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017
Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…
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Joyce Pensato: FORGETTABOUT IT
Batman, Donald Duck and Disney-style mice all loom large in the US artist Joyce Pensato’s second exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, And, although the works, all from 2017, are well-worn territory for her, she demonstrates a subtle shift in style
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Geta Brătescu: The Studio – A Tireless, Ongoing Space
Camden Arts Centre’s exhibition provides an overview of Geta Brătescu’s artistic career and including drawing, collage, video, sculpture and photography
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Greg Campbell: ‘I’d like people to get to know my friend a little through this film’
Greg Campbell talks about his film Hondros, which premiered at the year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and about his long friendship with its subject, the photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was shot and killed in Libya in 2011
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Elger Esser: ‘Beauty is not important; it’s a logical result in my opinion’
After his recent solo exhibition at Parasol Unit in London, Elger Esser talks about the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, having more in common with JMW Turner than Caspar David Friedrich, and how we are programmed to view landscapes as…
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Learning from Athens: Documenta 14 (Part one, Athens)
Despite multiple curatorial concepts, the first part of Documenta 14 is dominated by the decision to hold it in Athens. Beyond the political decisions and curatorial rhetoric, the exhibition is an ambitious and extensive city-wide production that can be read…
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Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti’s scrawny figures pulse with kinetic energy. This new retrospective at Tate Modern shows his versatility, celebrating his passion for materials other than the bronzes for which he is famed, giving a greater breadth and depth to the understanding…
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Mithu Sen: ‘I constantly change my mediums so the market will not be able to trap me’
Indian artist Mithu Sen has a quicksilver practice that is difficult to categorise or maintain as a singular narrative. This, she says, is intentional – it is her effort to defy the demands of the market
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Georgia Horgan: ‘Confident, working women were a threat to the social order’
Georgia Horgan talks about her recent exhibition, All Whores are Jacobites, and how she became intrigued by the lives of three women whose lives were linked by themes of prostitution, textile work and protest
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Art in Art
The exhibition captures the ingenuity and playfulness involved in critical perception, with more than 50 artists basing works on historic artworks to form contemporary pictures
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Becky Suss: ‘Putting domestic spaces into the gallery says something about what something is worth’
In her exhibition Homemaker at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Philadelphia-based artist Becky Suss presents a group of paintings that reflect on interiors that include objects of personal significance
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Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017
Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…
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Zoë Paul: La Perma-Perla Kraal Emporium
‘We need to have a connection to the place we live in. It’s an extension of ourselves and it’s also a form of communication,’ says Zoë Paul, who invites people to join her at The Breeder gallery in Athens to…
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NS Harsha: Charming Journey
Indian artist NS Harsha explains some of the works on show at this retrospective, and why, despite once working for a technology company, he prefers to stick to painting
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Frances Stark: ‘I am desperately trying to connect outside of the art world’
Frances Stark, the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, talks about her first opera, an adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute,and her desire to cross boundaries
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Frieze New York 2017
The fair’s extensive list of programmes and projects, including a symposium on Latin American art, performances and films, celebrated diversity by including domesticated ‘others’, but failed to deal with the reality of the world outside the tent
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Cornelia Parker
The new works of the often-brilliant Cornelia Parker act as a cautionary tale for artists who rush too hastily into the political
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Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus
While the similarities between the work of Tracey Emin and William Blake are tenuous, the latest instalment of Tate Liverpool’s In Focus series is interesting for other reasons
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