Category: Articles

  • Art is in the Street

    This comprehensive show charts the groundbreaking rise of the illustrated poster in 19th-century France, drawing on its rich heritage and highlighting its wide impact on society

  • Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

    This comprehensive show celebrating last year’s 250th anniversary of the Romantic painter’s birth brings together an extraordinary collection of his works

  • Painting After Painting

    A humongous survey of contemporary painting in Belgium shows a medium embracing the burden of its history

  • Time for Women!

    A retrospective of the first 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women finds an inexhaustible well of inspiration in Italy

  • Nora Turato: pool7

    This new work is very much about indeterminate selfhood as Turato immerses the visitor in a swimming pool-like psychological space – is she a mystic or a charlatan, or both?

  • Htein Lin: Escape

    The Burmese artist has been jailed many times and this show includes some of the remarkable paintings and drawings he created while held as a political prisoner

  • Suzanne Valadon

    This retrospective brings the acclaimed and trailblazing, but nearly forgotten French modernist artist back into view

  • Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship

    A kaleidoscope of colour through which the history of modernism is refracted, this exhibition brings to light the creative benefits of long-lasting friendship, collaboration and experimentation

  • Ed Atkins

    In this major retrospective, the viewer is like an avatar navigating the humans – real and CGI – that populate Atkins’ world of existential dread

  • Sharjah March Meeting 2025: To Carry Songs

    Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual symposium this year explored how culture is preserved and shared within communities