Category: Articles

  • Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature

    Works by Jarman are complemented by commissioned responses from six contemporary artists, leading to a candid and poetic exhibition. Don’t miss it

  • Lygia Clark: The I and the You

    Co-curated by Sonia Boyce, this concise exhibition shows how Clark’s geometric abstraction in the 50s gave way in the 60s to a greater focus on sensory experience and connection with her audience

  • Medieval Women: In Their Own Words

    While medieval texts may best be understood as a collaborative production, not deriving from a single authorial voice, this blockbuster exhibition nevertheless successfully presents medieval women – from and in all walks of life – in their own words

  • Erica Rutherford: The Human Comedy

    This small show is important in showing the shifts that took place between the early and late work of one of Britain’s first openly transgender artists

  • Victor Pasmore | Patrick Heron: VIII São Paulo Biennial, Great Britain 1965, revisited

    Sixty years after Pasmore and Heron showed together at the eighth São Paulo biennial, this abridged reimagining of the show provides a history lesson on two of Britain’s pioneering abstract artists

  • Bekhbaatar Enkhtur: Hearsay

    Enkhtur’s ephemeral sculptures, carved from his signature beeswax and aluminium, subvert the visual references they portray, riffing on the randomness of meaning and toying with our sense of reality

  • Larissa Sansour

    The Palestinian Danish artist’s films and installations interweave science fiction and political reality as they examine grief, trauma and loss

  • Friends in Love and War

    Children scrapping, lovers embracing, the pain of losing a loved one, even Brexit, all demonstrate the pain and pleasure of friendships and falling out in this fascinating group show

  • Stitched: Scotland’s Embroidered Art

    Magnificent bed hangings, tablecloths, tea cosies and more bring Scotland’s heritage of interior domestic design to life in this extraordinary exhibition covering 1720-1920

  • Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c1504

    Set in Florence at the turn of the 16th century, this exhibition is a portrait of drawing, every bit as much as it is a lively tale of three renowned artists