Category: Articles

  • Asif Khan-designed Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture opens

    British architect Asif Khan has reinvented a Soviet-era cinema as a space for experimentation and collaboration. Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture is Kazakhstan’s first major public building designed to encourage, educate and celebrate the region’s contemporary creatives, artists and audiences

  • Reflections – Sangat and the Self: Jasmir Creed and Roo Dhissou

    A conduit for 500 years of Sikh knowledge, this two-artist exhibition, with significant input from Without Shape Without Form, offers more than simply art for art’s sake

  • Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

    Prepare to be awed by the sheer talent of this great American painter, whose works revive the history painting for the modern age

  • Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão: Between Your Teeth

    This is powerful encounter between two major female artists whose work confronts gender, oppression, colonialism and politics

  • Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay

    From Scottish herring girls to the Gaza genocide, this exhibition is about belonging and identity

  • Cezanne at Jas de Bouffan

    Tracking the artist’s development from local student to ‘father of modern art’, 135 works made by Paul Cezanne in and of his beloved home town of Aix-en-Provence have returned to the city for this intriguing exhibition linked to the restoration…

  • Irma Stern. A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape Town

    This retrospective brings the German South African artist back into view, while tracing her position within German expressionism and the impact she had on modern art in Africa in the 20th century

  • Elaine Shemilt – interview

    An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees…

  • London’s Statues of Women – book review

    This exhaustive yet compact guide to London’s statues of women presents a motley crew, not just of queens and heroines, but of ‘normal’ women of all shapes and forms

  • The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

    This grand tribute to Pissarro evokes the bliss of a walk in nature and is an illuminating look at the man who was crucial to French impressionism despite being an outsider