Category: Articles
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Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry
A new exhibition of Barber’s work, the first in her hometown of Hastings, has her distinctive paintings, immersive and direct, on glued-together canvases or folded up into small squares, heavy and tactile and with a playful wink to art history
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The Costume House: The Inside Story of Cosprop from A Room with a View to Game of Thrones – book review
Film historian Keith Lodwick’s beautifully illustrated and educational book charts the success of costume house Cosprop and the influence of John Bright, the man behind it, on thousands of films and TV adaptations over more than half a century
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Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin
The Norwegian artist creates an eerie, gallery-spanning installation with green light for the Stedelijk
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Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold
Mutant crocodiles, slugs, rats and pigs populate a post-apocalyptic world, but despite the humour, Rock is deadly serious in her attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis and the state of our prison service
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Marie Antoinette Style
This show looks at the lasting influence of the young queen whose love of fashion and finery saw her scapegoated and derided by the public until her final untimely death
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David Weiss: The Dream of Casa Aprile – Carona 1968-1978
This show is a fascinating insight into how the idyllic village of Carona, nestled in the Swiss mountains, provided the young David Weiss with creative freedom and nourishment, surrounded by the fellow artists, musicians and intellectuals who gathered there
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Material Resistance: Anna Barlik, Marlena Kudlicka, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Agnieszka Kurant
Two sculptures, a video and a non-fungible token, by four female Polish artists, have much to say about the times in which we live
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Theatre Picasso
A playful exhibition of Picasso’s work at Tate Modern highlights the performative nature of the artist and his world
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Susan Roth – interview ‘Art can be made by anybody at anytime, anywhere with anything. That’s the gospel!’
The American painter Susan Roth talks about working in the ‘trenches of our time, where time bends and folds’, the ‘roiling’ surfaces of her shaped canvases, her recent works in synthetic stone, and being filled with ‘radical hope’
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Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural
From ectoplasmic photography to the psychedelic drawings of mediums, this exhibition looks at the past and present of haunted art
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