Category: Articles

Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury

For the first time, the “unpindownable” Carrington is defined in terms of her own person and her art, not her male lovers
Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents

The Manchester-based painter’s first institutional show lifts the curtain on altered states, sensuous drapery and ecstatic pleasure
Maud Sulter: You Are My Kindred Spirit

This show focuses on Sulter’s moving-image and spoken-word archives, in which warmth, familial relationships and a political poetics are brought into resounding harmony, as she explores her Scottish Ghanaian heritage
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

From a dress made from 200 lightbulbs to works made by computer, the Tate takes us on a dizzying, dense trip through half a century of electrically augmented art, fretted with optimism for a future that never came
María Berrío: The End of Ritual

Through her colourful and theatrical characters, Berrío draws on folklore and mythology as she explores how the history behind customs and rituals has been lost in the modern world
Jill Smith – interview: ‘It was just me doing my thing, emerging from being forgotten’

Rituals inspired by ancient rites, pagan myths and respect for landscape and place underpin the work of the artist who, at 82, is being celebrated this month with her first major solo show
The Salvage Agency: TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

This year’s festival, which explored the role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental action, ranged from the most traditional of crafts to speculative contemporary performances
Laurie Anderson: ARK: United States V

The septuagenarian artist’s world premiere of Ark: United States V, at Manchester’s Aviva Studios, was a journey of visual, verbal and musical storytelling exploring the artist’s and the US’s history
Vive l’impressionnisme! Masterpieces from Dutch Collections

A new exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of impressionism, specifically musing on the movement’s development within the Netherlands
Giorgio Griffa — interview: ‘Rhythm is the first instrument of man’s knowledge’

As a busy year draws to a close, the Turin-based abstract painter discusses his numinous abstract paintings