Category: Articles

  • Paul Thek: Seized by Joy. Paintings 1965-1988

    A rare London show of an elusive queer pioneer captures a quieter side of his unpredictable practice

  • Anonymous Was a Woman

    This elegantly composed exhibition celebrates 25 years’ of awards to female artists by Anonymous Was a Woman and emphasises how creative practice has changed over time

  • European Realities

    The first of its kind, this vast show is a stunning tour of the realism movement of the 1920s and 30s, bringing together artists from across Europe

  • Caspar Heinemann: Sod All

    The artist takes us on a deep, dark emotional dive with his nihilistic installation that references obscure religious books, occultism, folk revivalism and sexual politics through a typical mixture of found and repurposed materials

  • Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

    Complex, multilayered paintings and sculptures reek of the dark histories of slavery and colonialism in the first major UK retrospective of the Guyanese British artist

  • Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons

    Shown in the context of the historic paintings of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jones’s new paintings extend the iconography of the mouth in modern art

  • A cabinet of curiosities – inside the new V&A East Storehouse

    Diller Scofidio + Renfro has turned the 2012 Olympics broadcasting centre into a sparkling repository for the V&A’s collection. A new kind of statement building where the excitement is all on the inside, this hybrid of archive and museum an…

  • Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?

    This nocturnal exhibition organised by the Onassis Foundation’s cultural platform transforms a public park in Athens into a space for encountering artworks at night

  • Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art / Walt Disney Family Museum

    Three well-attended museum exhibitions in San Francisco flag a subtle shift from the current drumbeat of art thrown together in protest to a timeless aesthetic freed from agendas and concerns for diversity, equality, and strife to ravish the eye and…

  • Sargent and Paris

    This dazzling exhibition on the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death celebrates his versatile brilliance and enduring legacy