Archive
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Gluck and Modern British Women
During her lifetime, Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck) refused to show in group exhibitions. The Fine Art Society has stayed true to her wishes with this extensive retrospective on the ground floor complemented by an exhibition upstairs of works by several of…
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Amie Siegel: Strata
From the world’s deepest underground marble quarry to a fragment of pink marble from Trump Towers, via Freud’s consulting room, Siegel takes us on a journey to explore how objects come to represent status and success
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Tara Donovan: ‘I’m interested in exploring the moment where the conditional relationship of part to whole breaks down’
The artist explains that, although her latest work, Compositions (Cards), may seem very different from her earlier, large-scale floor-based installations, it springs from the same desire to play with perceptual capacities
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House Work
The house and its potential as a home, a prison, a marker in one’s life, is fertile territory and an inspired idea for an exhibition but, in this case, one lacking in impact
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The Place Is Here
The 1980s were a fertile time for black British artists to interrogate their experience of racial division, economic inequality and civil unrest, and The Place is Here resonates powerfully with today’s cultural and political zeitgeist
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David Hockney
Celebrating 60 years of Hockney’s work, this exhibition charts the art of a modern great through decades of change
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Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
While Vanessa Bell stands strong as an artist in her own right, her art can nevertheless not be separated from her life at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group
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Yuko Mohri: ‘I’m very curious about organic ecosystems’
The Japanese artist Yuko Mohri’s exhibition at White Rainbow is titled Moré Moré [Leaky], and follows recent exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan and the US. Winner of the 2015 Grand Prix Nissan Art Award, Mohri undertook two residencies in London in…
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Vera Möller: ‘My father thought going to art school was like wanting to become a communist’
The German-born artist explains why she first studied biology rather than art, how her scientific background informs her work, her love of the Great Barrier Reef, and why she is moving away from painting painstaking details of imaginary species
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Thomas Hirschhorn: ‘The Gramsci Monument, like all monuments, is made for eternity’
The artist talks about his commitment to art in public spaces, describes how the Gramsci Monument in New York evolved with the help of local people, and explains his belief in the ‘unshared authorship’ of art
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Bouchra Khalili
In her first solo UK exhibition, French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili explores the fraught concepts of freedom, nationhood and displacement using film, video and silk-screen prints
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Conceptual Art Now
Three exhibitions of conceptual art in Germany shed some light on the elusive genre. Taryn Simon’s Dresden show is an example of a type of contemporary conceptual art that relies on craft, material and concept, while two exhibitions in Berlin…
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
This exhibition of Russian art from the 1920s and 30s, based on MoMA’s own collection, is a heartening celebration of a period of remarkable creativity and development
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Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion
Unravelling some of the interwoven and incestuous tales relating to the 20th-century modernist protagonists in their rural Sussex settings, this exhibition is as compelling narratively as it is aesthetically and politically
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Laura Oldfield Ford: ‘I map ruptures, such as the London riots’
Oldfield Ford spends a lot of time walking through the capital’s streets and, from the fanzine she began in 2005 to her current exhibition, Alpha/Isis/Eden, her work is all about change, the rich pushing out the poor. The artist’s job,…
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Candida Powell-Williams: ‘Each object becomes more than just the narrative – it becomes this opportunity to interact’
The artist shows us round her immersive installation, exploring the fetishism of anthropological objects
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Richard Wilson: Stealing Space
‘I’m just making the unknown real,’ says Wilson, about his new exhibition, Stealing Space at Annely Juda Fine Art in London
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John Baldessari: Miró and Life in General
As he continues his late-career conversation with art history, the archetypical Californian conceptualist’s seemingly simple works open up a mire of ambiguity
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TeamLab: Transcending Boundaries
If there were a happiness index for exhibitions, then teamLab: Transcending Boundaries would score a solid 10 out of 10
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Mai-Thu Perret: ‘I had this urge to portray these female warriors’
The multi-disciplinary artist talks about her continuing fictional narrative The Crystal Frontier, her obsession with an all-female Kurdish militia fighting in Syria, and early-20th-century feminist fiction
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Jamie Crewe: Female Executioner
Seeking ancestry in a controversial and pornographic 19th-century French novel, this queer, transfeminine artist questions the problematic of rehabilitating a historical work of fiction from a contemporary standpoint
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Linda Stupart: ‘I’m interested in thinking about a world without men’
The writer, sculptor and performance artist talks about the power of crystals, witchcraft and using sci-fi as a tool to write queer time and imagine queer futures
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David Brian Smith: ‘My cause is to fight for the plight of the English countryside’
The painter’s pop-coloured vision of the English countryside belies a sad truth, but as Smith demonstrates, bitterness can be channelled into something meaningful
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One and Other
The Zabludowicz Collection sets the stage for a shrewd reflection on the real versus the created self in the modern age
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