Category: Articles

  • The Frick Collection: The Historic Interiors of One East Seventieth Street – book review

    Celebrating the newly renovated Frick Museum, this treasure of a book takes the reader on a room-by-room historical tour of the Henry Frick’s Gilded Age collection, from the Renaissance to the 19th century

  • The Medium is the Message

    A thought-provoking exhibition of archival material and related artworks celebrating the centenary of the College of Psychic Studies’ move to Queensberry Place in south-west London

  • Emilija Škarnulytė

    From river pollution to radioactive waste, through aquatic atmospheres and mythic journeys, Emilija Škarnulytė’s immersive films and installations explore the fragility of our ecology

  • William Nicholson

    This magnificent exhibition includes bold posters, woodcuts, portraits and still lifes, but it is Nicholson’s non-commissioned pictures of people from lower social classes that steal the show

  • Erasure

    Through painting, sculpture and film, three international artists ask us to reflect on ecological destruction and cultural erasure – and how we can work towards a better future

  • Dana Awartani: Standing by the Ruins

    Using traditional craft techniques, Awartani traces the destruction of cultural heritage sites during conflict in the Middle East. In painting, installation and textiles, she considers the themes of remembrance, healing and forgetting

  • Frank Gehry remembered

    The loss of an icon is ever of great note but that the iconoclast architect Frank Gehry’s passing at the venerable age of 96 has elicited a tsunami of grief and disbelief reveals how deeply his compulsive, impulsive, wildly creative…

  • Luigi Ghirri: Polaroid ’79-’83

    Ghirri’s spell using Polaroid cameras takes us on an imaginary adventure, with leading clues or images that make us question the nature of reality and what we see

  • Beyond the Visual

    A groundbreaking exhibition turns the way we think about sculpture on its head. Every object has its own audio description and is there to be touched, completely accessible to all, sighted or blind

  • Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade

    Three seductive, spellbinding films demonstrate the Uzbek artist and film-maker’s confidence in letting images tell the story, in her first solo exhibition at a UK institution