Archive
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Rik Wouters: A Retrospective
More than 200 works mark the largest monographic exhibition to date devoted to Belgian modernist Rik Wouters. In a feast of colour and strong brush strokes, a collaboration of more than 30 museums, private collectors and cultural institutions, invite the…
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: ‘I think about intrusion and the transition from viewer to voyeur’
Adrienne Elise Tarver talks about notions of voyeurism, and her interest in personal space and the power of suggestion
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Tuneu: Hexacordo
This solo exhibition, which celebrates Tuneu’s 50 years as an artist, brings together his most recent work, with 23 new paintings as well as sculptures, all of which play with the possibilities of the hexagon
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Colour is
This group exhibition, including work by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Anthony Caro and Hélio Oiticica, provides an interesting survey of 1960s abstract art and its legacies, and suggests a few intriguing connections
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İ Ata Doğruel: ‘I want to destroy the limits between life and art’
Pushing his physical and mental boundaries to the limit, Doğruel seeks to make performances from his life and to use the medium of performance art as a tool to enhance his spirituality and find a broader sense of life
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Serge Attukwei Clottey: ‘My body is part of my work’s mystery’
Using his body as an object, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey works with international media – as well as plastic yellow “gallons” (jerrycans) – to speak out about politics, religion, sex and tradition
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The American Dream: Pop to the Present
This exhibition pops and sparks, but ultimately goes out with a disappointing fizzle, leaving us to wonder what happened to the American dream
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MOA Museum of Art: Grand Reopening Exhibition
The museum reopens its doors after a renovation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto that combines modern technology with ancient techniques, allowing visitors to see historical artworks in a setting similar to that in which they would originally have been viewed
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Anna Freeman Bentley: ‘The work is successful when there’s a question over what it is you are looking at’
Anna Freeman Bentley’s paintings are visual and psychosocial mazes that tease layers of meaning from architectural spaces. She talks about her inspiration and the social tensions that lurk beneath the surface
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Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine
This exhibition is a provocative, disturbing, poignant and ultimately telling exploration of the implications and complications arising from technology’s advancing role in human evolution
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Edward Krasiński
As mercurial as this master of the Polish avant-garde might seem, a career-wide survey revealed some persistent concerns while retaining much of the mystery
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When the Heavens Meet the Earth
Showcasing works from Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina African art collection, this small but dense exhibition reveals the breadth and quality of artistic output from the world’s second largest continent
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Armory Show 2017
Manhattan’s storied art fair pushed back against a softening art market with strong work, mid-range sales and more than 65,000 visitors – the jury is out, though, on what was added by a new director’s ambitious overhaul
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Chto Delat: ‘Before you can recognise the light, you have to recognise the darkness’
Dmitry Vilensky and Olga Egorova of the Russian collective Chto Delat talk about their latest exhibition, On the Possibility of Light, at KOW in Berlin, and how they hope to foster debate through their engagement with political struggles
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Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015
In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
In the 1960s, technological machines were seen as benign helpers or megalomaniac monsters. Fifty years on, at a time when technology permeates everything we do, this show looks at how it reframes the way we think
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Mahmoud Bakhshi: ‘I was focusing on the people who died, and on an artist doing something, which then has an effect that is a problem’
Turning the gallery at narrative projects, London, into a 1970s cinema, Bakhshi places his audience at the centre of two pivotal – and parallel – events in recent Iranian history
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America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
This is a fabulously varied exhibition with a sting in the tail. The times, they were a changin’, but so much remains the same
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The photographic works of Kishin Shinoyama: Picture Power
The Japanese photographer, famous for his portraits of celebrities and nudes, has selected about 120 works, taken over a 50-year period, leading the viewer on a trip down memory lane
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Alexei Jawlensky
Jawlensky’s art may be considered a life-long meditation on the process of change in his personal life
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Do Ho Suh: Passage/s
With the lightest of touches, artist Do Ho Suh can transform the architectural into a symbol of the transient – and temporal – nature of life
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Michael Andrews: Earth Air Water
Best known for his party scenes, Michael Andrews’ later landscapes reveal him as a master of perspective and a laureate of uncertainty
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Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932
The fascinating and expansive exhibition provides an intriguing and rare insight into the dialogue between art and politics, the individual and the state, freedom of expression and the pull of ideology
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Toshiyuki Inoko: ‘We are exploring the ways in which the relationships between people can be changed through art’
The founder of teamLab, an interdisciplinary group of ‘ultra-technologists’, explains how digital technology can expand art and remove the barriers between the work and the viewer
