Author: Martin Kennedy

  • British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers

    This show’s ambition to address testing times feels muted by a restrospective feel and with the exception of a few works, notably by Shiraz Bayjoo and Precious Okoyomon, there is little that is challenging or innovative

  • Kaari Upson: Dollhouse – a Retrospective

    In Upson’s work, the domestic is explored not just as a built structure, but as the space where the human psyche is formed, moulded like her silicone casts

  • Vietnam: Don McCullin – book review

    This book, which McCullin has said will be his last, documents his work across three campaigns in Vietnam, including images that have never before been seen publicly

  • Liz Larner – interview

    On the event of her first UK institutional show at Camden Art Centre, the American sculptor discusses plastics, ceramics and the legend of Lilith

  • Sophie Calle: Something Missing?

    Frequently working more as a sociologist than an artist, the interrogative French artist explores human behaviour, from the banal to the profound. Her work can make you laugh but it can also make you cry

  • Renoir and Love

    This revelatory survey of the impressionist blows away the cobwebs to re-reveal a master of storytelling, city life and intimate moments of connection

  • The Bayeux Tapestry

    As the UK gets what has been called ‘a once in a millennium chance’ to see the historic Tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066, we look at what viewers can expect

  • Magali Reus: Swimming by Night 

    The London-based sculptor leads a tour around Swimming by Night, a superbly organised exhibition of her beguiling, meticulously constructed sculptures

  • Broken: The Power of the Fragment

    Bringing together works from Ancient Egypt to Classical Greece, from Michelangelo to Rodin, plus contemporary artists including Louise Bourgeois and Danh Vo, this major exhibition explores how and why we still value certain things even – or especially – in…

  • What Remains

    Looking back and looking forward, this 10-artist exhibition, celebrating 40 years of the Women’s Art Collection, considers what has already changed and what still needs to