Category: Articles

Yto Barrada: Deadhead

In her films, sculptures, tapestries and prints Barrada plays with the materiality of colour
Edvard Munch Portraits

The artist’s portraits have flown under the radar, but getting to know his sitters reveals a lot about Munch himself
Olivia Bax – interview: ‘With art, there are so many unwritten rules and I find it interesting to challenge them and break them’

The sculptor talks about curating These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture, now at the Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, her early career as Anthony Caro’s assistant and why humour is so vital to her work
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

The Royal Academy’s new exhibition reveals the mighty French novelist as a fascinating, ever-experimental artist
Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI

The exhibition presents a gamut of international artists who work with artificial intelligence in various ways, exploring a wide range of possibilities offered by this latest technological development
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

The National Gallery’s meticulously researched exhibition of medieval Sienese masterpieces is an amassing of wonders that’s worth its weight in gold
Somaya Critchlow: The Chamber

Critchlow’s six sombrely sexy paintings respond to European painting from the 17th and 18th centuries, asking us to look and look again
Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

With many objects drawn from Fritsch’s private collection, this first retrospective of the ceramicist in 15 years presents a rare opportunity to see her works
Portia Zvavahera – interview: ‘It’s like I’m speaking with the souls of people, with individuals’

In her only in-person interview for her latest UK show, now at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the artist discusses the role of dreams and her spirituality in the narratives and atmospheres vividly evoked in her transcendental paintings
Resistance

Conceived and co-curated by Steve McQueen, this exhibition explores how a century of protest from 1903 to 2003 shaped Britain, and the vital part photography played