Category: Articles

  • McArthur Binion. Rawness Dancing: With Intellect

    Three series of paintings by the American artist are brought together for the first time in this exhibition in Belgium

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

    Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood

  • Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

    The Indonesian artist’s Barbican project plunges visitors into a mesmerising Dante-esque world of flames, blood, snakes and dismembered bodies

  • Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

    With many works exhibited for the first time, this comprehensive show also includes preparatory sketches and her tarot deck, reflecting her spiritual beliefs and radical, occult-influenced art

  • Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed

    The lesser-known of two successful sisters is given her rightful place in 20th-century history thanks to an assiduous gallerist and loyal friend

  • Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

    This jewel-like exhibition showcases the work of the pioneering Bristol-born artist, who moved to Paris, changed her name, mixed with the likes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Calder, and became a key figure in abstract art

  • Noah Davis

    A survey of the late American painter honours his singular, otherworldly vision

  • Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark

    A generous survey captures the full range of the American photographer, who chronicled New York’s gay scene during the 1970s and 80s

  • New Contemporaries

    In the 75th New Contemporaries exhibition – perhaps not surprisingly at a time of economic, political and moral uncertainties – recent UK arts graduates seem preoccupied with everyday life, family and what it means to feel ‘at home’

  • Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol

    There are no buts! This small exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath has considered every angle and every detail and the result truly is a bijou gem