Category: Articles

  • Valentina Karga: Well Beings

    The artist highlights the ecological horrors ravaging our world, but her aim is not to shock or to shame. With her cosy sofas and sensory objects, she wants us to find ways to deal with the anxieties and conflicts we…

  • Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever

    Mitchell’s photographs of urban decay and the demolition of buildings in Leeds over the past 50 years show a world now vanished, but his empathy for his subjects shines through

  • Lee Bul: Long Tail Halo

    Lee’s headless heroines and canines are the fifth of the Met’s Genesis Facade Commissions. But what do the Korean artist’s sculptures represent, and what are the influences behind these fantastic creatures?

  • Undersea

    Spanning four centuries and diverse cultures, this show of more than 7o works, including paintings, prints, drawings and objects, explores the mysteries and myths of the world beneath our oceans

  • With Graphic Intent

    With highlights from the Courtauld’s collection of German and Austrian modernist works on paper and some noteworthy loans, this is a must-see exhibition for anyone interested in early modernist expressionism and the graphic arts

  • Uncanny

    Louise Bourgeois, Sheida Soleimani and Gillian Wearing are among the 30 female artists contributing to a show that is challenging, unsettling and sometimes downright uncomfortable

  • The Spin Off

    In this mind-blowing and dazzling exhibition, Zajko takes us into a mysterious realm of art and domesticity, of manufacturing and consumption

  • Mahtab Hussain: What Did You Want to See?

    With portraits of mosques and people at prayer, the British Asian artist documents the racist stereotyping typically experienced by Muslims across his home city of Birmingham

  • The Cosmos of “Der Blaue Reiter” – From Kandinsky to Campendonk

    This show retraces the roots of the expressionist artists who made up the Blue Rider group, looking at the influences and connections that shaped them

  • Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts* and Celia Paul: Diaries**

    Two concurrent solo exhibitions paint a much broader portrait of the artist Celia Paul, debunking the myth of her as a recluse and showing us some of who and what went into making her her