Category: Articles

  • Yulia Mahr – interview: ‘My work is more akin to poetry. It’s a moment of sensory storytelling’

    Mahr’s work incorporates film, photography and installation with a rich language of layering, collaging and photographic experimentation. She discusses her artistic evolutions, her explorations of the female body as a ‘site of complexity’ and the studio space she and her…

  • Dana Schutz: The Island

    With 15 paintings and five works on paper, this show takes on a journey spanning 20 years of Schutz’s fantastical, often grotesque, figures

  • Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

    This delightful if dark exhibition brings ‘Mrs Eric Ravilious’ out of the shadow of her husband, ensuring that, in future, she is known in her own right as Tirzah Garwood

  • Maggi Hambling: Nightingale Night

    In response to hearing the increasingly rare sound of a nightingale singing, Hambling has produced a new series of paintings in a striking palette of gold and silver laid over a dark black ground, evoking a mood, a feeling of…

  • PST ART: Art & Science Collide – Part 2

    Well into its fourth month, the sprawling PST ART festival themed to explore the intersection of art and science is still in full swing, featuring science-facilitated art projects that engage aesthetics and manipulated materials to rethink abstruse cosmic questions and…

  • Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

    The towering canvas is stupefying – not for nothing is it said that soldiers invading his studio during the sack of Rome were so amazed that they let Parmigianino continue painting. Here, too, we see his preparatory drawings, evidence of…

  • In Flux: A Story About Water

    This compact but rich show delves into the many facets and meanings of water as represented in the past 400 years of art history

  • Hamad Butt: Apprehensions

    The artist’s first major retrospective, 30 years after his death, reveals a powerful talent, a pioneer in bio- and installation art, with a potent message about fear of other and of biological, social and political contagion

  • Do Ho Suh: In Process

    This innovative, elegantly assembled show of the South Korean artist gives us a glimpse into the ideas and methods that underpin his research-based, explorative and collaborative works

  • Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures

    White Cube presents a generously portioned survey of the trailblazing conceptual photographer, from his disquieting re-enactments of everyday life to his recent mannerist experiments