Category: Articles

  • Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex

    A trilogy of video works featuring two queer, female delivery drivers in Seoul, Ayoung Kim’s Delivery Dancer Codex uses innovative digital technology to explore labour and the gig economy, as well as metaphysical notions of time and multiverses

  • Nigerian Modernism

    The Tate’s landmark exhibition presents a fascinating story, but could have done more to capture the excitement of post-independence Nigeria

  • Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

    Known as a gallerist to the likes of Rauschenberg and Rothko, Parsons spent her weekends making her own art – and as this show proves, her art was also more than noteworthy

  • Ben Edge: Children of Albion

    In a powerful new show of painting, sculpture and film, the artist brings folkloric traditions and myth into the modern world

  • Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

    The two men from working-class Scottish backgrounds met at art school and became inseparable. This exhibition charts a tale of love, fame, drunkenness and tragedy

  • Push the Limits: Culture Strips to Reveal War

    A diverse group of works in this exhibition at Fondazione Merz show how contemporary art responds to conflict

  • Anna Ancher: Painting Light

    Whether depicting women at work, children playing on the beach or locals at prayer Anna Ancher’s light-filled paintings are a joyful celebration of life on Denmark’s Skaw peninsula

  • Wright of Derby: From the Shadows

    The National Gallery reunifies Joseph Wright of Derby’s trio of candlelit masterpieces, while revealing some of the painter’s lesser-known marvels

  • Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life

    A luscious selection of sweets, cakes and pies seduce us at this, the American painter’s first UK museum show. But was he celebrating the American dream and its values or critiquing it?

  • A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle

    This visually thrilling exhibition is a revelation. Pivoting around Mrinalini Mukherjee, it also celebrates key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including seminal work by her parents and other important south Asian artists