Category: Articles
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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
The National Gallery’s miraculous 200th anniversary exhibition strips back the tragic legend to spotlight Van Gogh’s stupendous art
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Luigi Ghirri. Viaggi: Photographs 1970-1991
The Italian photographer was working in the 1970s and 80s when tourism was becoming commonplace. This major show highlights his wry and philosophical observations of the burgeoning travel industry of the time
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Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds
As well as 80 photomontages by the artist seen as one of the inventors of the medium, this major retrospective includes paintings, drawings, prints and archival material, alongside projections of films by contemporaries by whom she was inspired, including Hans…
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Time for Magic: A Shamanarchist’s Guide to the Wheel of the Year – book review
Best known for his album covers for the Sex Pistols, Reid was an anarchist who was also fascinated by Druidry. This book is an entrancing tribute to his life and work
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Thérèse Oulton
A bewitching and challenging exhibition of paintings from 1983 until 2024, revealing an underappreciated abstract painter with a distinct and enigmatic visual language
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Graffiti redux
Graffiti! The recent dust-up over three Los Angeles skyscrapers raises the question: defacement or fine art? Follow its history, from marked-up rocks to NFTs, and weigh in
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Claudia Martínez Garay – interview: ‘I’m interested in the encounter, the meeting place between brown bodies and white bodies’
As her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary draws to a close, the multidisciplinary Peruvian artist has opened a major solo exhibition in Dundee, exploring the connections and contradictions between ancient and modern mythologies and iconographies, impacted by colonial erasure and modified…
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Raven Halfmoon – interview: ‘It took everything in me to make these sculptures. Literal blood, sweat and tears went into them’
The sculptor and citizen of the Caddo nation talks about her forthcoming show at Salon 94 in New York City, the giant bronze figure at its centre, and how she mixes her ancestral narratives with popular contemporary culture
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Carlos Moreno – interview: ‘The 15-minute city is not a way of declaring a war against cars’
The urban planner behind the concept of the 15-minute city talks about why it is now an urgent necessity worldwide and considers why the idea of limiting car use has become so controversial
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Dialogue with Joseph Beuys
Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated
