Category: Articles

  • Emma Critchley: Soundings

    Through film, sound and dance, the artist’s continuing investigative project takes audiences on a journey to the deep, focusing on the environmental issue of deep-sea mining

  • Frank Auerbach

    Britain’s greatest postwar painter has a belated German homecoming, which captures the remarkable presence of his work

  • How Painting Happens (and why it matters) – book review

    Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to stop

  • Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures

    Helen Chadwick’s unwillingness to accept any binary division of the world allowed her to radically explore the mechanisms of the body – physically, emotionally, sensually, sexually and sensorially

  • Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

    To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words

  • Dame Jillian Sackler obituary

    The art lover and philanthropist has died aged 84

  • Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991

    With more than 100 works by 50 artists, this show examines the pioneering role of women in computer art, looking at how our visual perceptions have evolved, the technological impacts on art and contrasts in artistic methods

  • Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

    With numerous works created with the twigs, leaves, roots, branches and majestic forms of trees, this retrospective captures the Italian artist’s arboreal obsession over five decades

  • Solange Pessoa: Pilgrim Fields

    An olfactory orgy of marigolds, chamomile, grasses, sheepskins and kelp is arranged into a surreal landscape – and a lush scentscape – to prick our understanding of what is wild and what is natural, in the Brazilian artist’s first UK…

  • Christian Krohg: The People of the North

    A key figure in Norwegian art, the naturalist painter wanted his art to bring social change and produced strikingly modern images