Category: Articles

  • Tove Jansson: Paradise

    This magical exhibition of Jansson’s lesser-known murals captures a yearning for paradise in the midst of war

  • Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

    The Zimbabwean artist combines dreams, painting and prayer in her work, resulting in an intensely moving show

  • Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani – interview: ‘We are all part of a larger global conversation’

    He is an author, curator and a member of the Qatari royal family. He is also the founder of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Art, a not-for-profit organisation that he hopes will enlighten those in the west about the…

  • Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape

    From the works of Nancy Holt and Richard Long in the 1960s and 70s to contemporary artists, this show presents photography, film and land art that engages directly with the freedom and wilderness of Dartmoor

  • Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art

    In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond the visible world and turning the mundane into something wondrous. This exhibition, spanning the century from then until now, whets the appetite for an…

  • Material Poetry

    The works here riff on the interplay between text and images, between the tangible and the conceptual , blurring the line between the abstract nature of language and the concrete world it often describes

  • Lauren Halsey: Emajendat

    Halsey’s multicolour, candyfloss, shout-out vision of a universe is an image of what it is to be part of something, to believe and to thrive, to make a mark

  • Jean Tinguely

    Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spirit in this fiesta of ideas, movement and noise

  • Sammy Baloji

    A well-sized survey distils the Congolese artist’s research-heavy practice, which draws connections between colonial and contemporary exploration

  • A Different Impressionism: International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler

    With rarely shown works by famous artists, this exhibition demonstrates how new printing techniques extended impressionism beyond painting