Category: Articles

  • Anya Gallaccio: Preserve

    Ephemeral installations incorporate melting candles, felled trees, ageing fruit and decomposing flowers, but the showstopper is a mighty felled ash that dominates an entire gallery

  • Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit

    A long overdue London retrospective of the pioneering, prescient American artist is not for the faint-hearted

  • Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

    Installed by the artist over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a manifold landscape of fragility and contingency

  • Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land

    From chamberpots paired with Georgian silver to the reimagining of the story of Jacob and Esau, the two artists, working together for the first time, point up multiple dualities and inequalities

  • Magdalene Odundo

    This stripped-back exhibition, with just three drawings and six hand-built vessels, allows the stark elegance of Odundo’s work to shine through

  • The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998

    The Barbican takes us on a fascinating ride through two and a half decades of Indian art, teasing out the transformations and contradictions in the country’s recent history

  • PST ART: Art & Science Collide

    Five years in the planning, this festival of art, spanning the West Coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego, involves 70 exhibits by more than 800 artists and a range of material that puts multimedia in the light

  • Mary Mary

    Outdoor sculptures by nine female artists are on display in this show, but it’s hard not to feel that they deserve better than this neglected space

  • Asian Bronze

    A majestic exhibition at the national museum of the Netherlands offers a refreshing take on ancient Asian sculptures spanning four millennia

  • Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel

    This retrospective of Maurice de Vlaminck is the first in nearly 100 years and gives an overview of the French painter’s work that goes beyond his early fauvist period and bold use of bright colours