Category: Articles

  • Kenji Ide: Some Other Times

    The Japanese artist fills the house of a Polish poet with his eloquent miniature sculptures. Although born from memories of nighttime walks and drives, they have a remarkable stillness

  • Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    Industrial pollution is imbued with celestial light in Monet’s extraordinarily atmospheric paintings of the Thames. This is an exhibition not to be missed

  • Thomas Houseago: Night Sea Journey

    You can feel the energy ricocheting between Houseago and his hulking, portentous figures as he takes us on a journey from darkness to light

  • Alia Farid: Bneid Al Gar

    A survey exhibition of the prize-winning Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist spotlights her intelligence and sensitivity to materiality, but could do with more assertion

  • Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya

    Rego, like Goya, whom she so much admired, has the power to unsettle and disconcert. This exhibition pairing work by them both is thrilling and full of surprises

  • Alfred Kubin: The Aesthetics of Evil

    This new exhibition sheds fresh light on the personal hell of the artist whose nightmarish visions dominated his life and work

  • Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs

    This extensive exhibition of still life works from two major collections is full of clever visual pairings and rich in conceptual layers

  • The Uncanny: Sigmund Freud and Art

    In works by Louise Bourgeois, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman, among others, this exhibition reveals the relationship between psychoanalysis and visual art

  • Marlene Dumas: Mourning Marsyas

    Dumas’s tortured, grief-stricken images will haunt you long after you have left this exhibition

  • Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory

    This major respective celebrates the Japanese artist known for his colourful works, which reflect childhood memories of the second world war and the impact of American pop culture that came after