Archive
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Deanna Petherbridge: ‘Drawing can be a million different things, but I think basically it’s a critical practice’
Using pen and ink as a metaphorical means of interrogating human interest, Deanna Petherbridge sees drawing as akin to writing, only perhaps more democratic
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From Selfie to Self-Expression
Advertised as the world’s first exhibition dedicated to the history of the selfie, From Selfie to Self Expression explores our relationship – healthy or otherwise – with our own image
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James Capper: the making of Six Step
We visited James Capper over the course of four months, first filming him in his London studio where he explained the initial concept for his sculpture Six Step and finally following him to its installation at the Venice Biennale in…
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Maeve Brennan: The Drift
Premiering at the Chisenhale Gallery, Maeve Brennan’s film The Drift (2017) depicts restorative labour as the means to reconstruct Lebanon’s war-torn past and build a new future
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Sam Cornish: ‘We started with this idea that all works would have to contain repetition, sequence and symmetry’
The co-curator of Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art discusses how this relatively unsung period in art history was characterised by more than just bright colours and glossy surfaces
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Caroline Walker: ‘Who we perceive to be the maker of an image affects how we consume it’
Caroline Walker’s quietly charged, often luxurious, spaces frame half-told narratives that complicate traditional ideas of the woman as subject. She talks about her process and how feminism is a nuanced concept
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Naeem Mohaiemen: It is Not Necessary to Understand Everything
Tensta Konsthall is showing Bangladeshi artist Naeem Mohaiemen’s 2011 film, United Red Army, about the hijacking of a Japanese Airlines flight in 1977, along with two related vitrine displays
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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
Defying history, this exhibition reveals crucial parallels between the surrealist Claude Cahun and contemporary artist Gillian Wearing, from the birth to the death of their manifold identities
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Norman Hyams: ‘I very much believe in losing a painting and finding it’
Norman Hyams talked to Studio International about his painting process before the opening of his first solo show for 10 years, Ethos at The Hannah Barry Gallery in south London
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Drawing Biennial 2017
The eighth edition of the Drawing Biennial, which includes more than 200 works on paper, prompts a reflection both on the status of drawing today and the world around us
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Marsden Hartley’s Maine
Capping a series of pioneering shows at the Met Breuer that, force majeure, will serve as the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this insightful appraisal of Marsden Hartley as “the Painter from Maine” places the Yankee for…
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After Industry
This exhibition of works by Christer Karlstad, Willy Verginer and Jason DeMarte, fittingly staged in a former firehouse in Detroit’s Eastern Market district, explores the post-industrial condition
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Jean Painlevé
This is the first UK solo show for fascinating artist Jean Painlevé, who chronicled key moments in the lives of seahorses, snails and other marine animals, using novel technologies to reach microscopic scales
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Architecture as Metaphor
A mix of sculpture, tapestry, film, photography, painting and collage by 33 artists whose work refers to, or manipulates, the built environment, this exhibition heightens awareness of one’s own physical presence and the intensity – and complexity – of our…
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Amelie von Wulffen: The Misjudged Bimpfi
For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Amelie von Wulffen deals with themes of guilt, marginalisation, sexual fantasy and emotional trauma through an aesthetic influenced by historical genre painters – and a talking mushroom
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Saad Qureshi: ‘You can’t really pick your medium. Your medium picks you’
Saad Qureshi talks about his seduction by charcoal, his fear of being exposed, and his creation of mindscapes from his own and others’ memories
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A Painter’s Doubt
In order to understand contemporary painting, curator Séamus Kealy presents the work of nine European artists, examining their work through the lens of phenomenology
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The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945
Featuring more than 40 architects, this exhibition traces 70 years of small-scale innovation to celebrate some of the most distinctive and significant projects to have been realised in Japan since the second world war
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Oliver Beer – interview: ‘We are very fortunate to live in a time when there is complete fluidity between mediums’
Oliver Beer uses sound, film and sculpture to explore the physical properties and emotional value of objects and places. We interview the artist as two new solo exhibitions open in the UK
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Whitney Biennial 2017
America loves firsts, and, following a hiatus of three years, the once-unruly Whitney Biennial, currently curating what’s hottest in American art in its sleek, shiny, grown-up, new space, fits the bill
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Prabhavathi Meppayil
The Indian artist, brought up in a family of goldsmiths, adapts age-old techniques to make work that seems to bear witness and testimony to this family history and its artistic tradition
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Helen Johnson: ‘I wanted to resist presenting some sort of unified image of history’
Australian artist Helen Johnson’s new exhibition at the ICA in London re-examines Britain’s colonial relationship with Australia. She talks about what that means to her and how her work reflects those ideas
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Michelangelo and Sebastiano
This fascinating exhibition tells the story of two Renaissance greats and their unlikely collaboration
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Tony Oursler: Imponderable
This fascinating exhibition brings together some of the artist’s vast archive of ephemera concerning mysticism, the paranormal and the pseudo-scientific with an immersive film featuring Tony Oursler’s family, Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, as viewers are forced to consider the…
