Category: Articles

  • Liverpool Biennial 2025: Bedrock

    From Sheila Hicks’s gemstone-like sculptures to Elizabeth Price’s video essay on modernist Catholic churches, 30 artists respond to the theme of this year’s Liverpool Biennial, ‘bedrock’

  • Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**

    Two concurrent exhibitions bring special collections into broader spaces of circulation, highlighting print’s enduring role as a medium of collective expression and firmly placing a new era of zine-making and independent, small-press publishing within a radical multigenerational continuum

  • May Morris: Art & Advocacy

    Focusing on the skills of wallpaper design and embroidery, this exhibition tells the story of the “remarkable” woman at the helm of Morris & Co

  • Daphne Wright: Deep-Rooted Things

    This show is a celebration of the domestic, and the poignant sculpture of Wright’s two sons, now on the cusp on adulthood, dominates as the Irish artist explores memory, identity, life and death

  • Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories

    The venerable Egyptian Canadian installation artist brings shipwrecks, shells and the sound of the sea to Margate’s Turner Contemporary

  • Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

    A groundbreaking New York show from 1966 is brought back to life with the work of three women whose experimentation with materials and visualisation turned sculpture inside out

  • Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha

    The first of three exhibitions to position historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti with new works by contemporary artists, this one shows his work in dialogue with that of the Pakistani American sculptor Huma Bhabha

  • Edward Burra

    The Parisian scenes that Burra is known for are joyful and sardonic, but his work depicting the Spanish civil war and the destruction of his home environment stand out in this first retrospective of the artist in London in 40…

  • The 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle

    Surprising, thrilling, enchanting – under the artistic direction of Chus Martínez, the works in this biennale show a genuine heartfelt passion for the world in which we live

  • It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame – book review

    In a series of essays about pairs of famous women, the cultural critic Philippa Snow explores the connections between them and the distinction between person and persona