Category: Articles

  • Mary Cassatt between Paris & New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy – book review

    This beautifully illustrated book considers the importance of the American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt, who moved to Paris, spending time in the company of impressionists and influencing tastes in her native US

  • Sagarika Sundaram – interview: ‘When I finish a work, it feels very much like skin’

    At her studio in the World Trade Center, as she prepares for a solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery in London later this year, the artist talks about using space, surface and colour in her sculptures

  • Vanessa Bell

    To accompany its exhibition Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour, organised in partnership with Charleston, the MK Gallery held a one-day conference at which experts and enthusiasts discussed the pioneering painter and founder member of the Bloomsbury Group

  • Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light

    With work from 1875 to 1925 alongside medieval works, this exhibition considers how modern Nordic and northern European artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch were influenced by the gothic aesthetic

  • Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva

    Her subject matter may be serious – nationality, identity, migration and displacement – but the exuberance and joy in her sculptures and textile works shine through

  • Mohammed Z Rahman: Remember to Live

    Rahman’s comfort zone is in the miniature, but with a vision that is hopeful not hellish, evoking the small and intimate moments of everyday lives, the people and houses bathed in deep, saturated colours

  • Frieze Los Angeles and Felix Art Fair, 2025

    A much-needed tonic after the fires laid us low, Frieze art week did take place, the city’s art community showed up and visitors poured in from across the globe. Although one of the four participating fairs (Spring Break) chose not…

  • Tarot – Origins & Afterlives

    Foreteller of fate, conduit for common sense or magic? Tarot has been used as a tool for decision-making since the 15th century. A new show explores its Renaissance origins, its evolutions and adaptations and its enduring appeal for artists and…

  • Anselm Kiefer: Early Works

    Challenging and shocking, the German artist fearlessly confronts his country’s Nazi past with grand political statements

  • Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings

    A fascinating exhibition gathers the juddering, gyrating drawings of this Franco-Belgian poet, which capture the nauseating reality of psychedelic drugs