Category: Articles

  • Awaken, Metamagical Hands

    This exhibition calls back to the surface a hidden gradient of software art development since the 1990s and links it with a material and historical turn in digital art of the present

  • Edinburgh Art Festival

    This year’s festival urges us to believe that, collectively, we can build a better future. And while there are no miracle cures, I came away from it with a feeling of hope

  • After the End of History: British Working-Class Photography 1989-2024

    From the northern soul scene to farmers and a world boxing champ, photographers have captured images of their own communities, at the same time calling out middle-class assumptions of what constitutes good taste

  • Angus Pryor – interview: ‘I love chaos, so celestial journeys, end-time, wrath and deluge attract my attention’

    The artist explains his fascination with the Book of Enoch, long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer

  • Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary

    The sculptures, masks, lithographs and tapestries in this exhibition introduce a cast of characters from the fantastical other worlds of the English Mexican surrealist artist’s magnificently mad mind

  • The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

    With works from the 17th century to today, from Edwaert Collier to Duncan Grant and Maggi Hambling, this exhibition shows that still life, once seen as the lowliest of genres, has much to offer

  • Parade – book review

    I wanted to like Rachel Cusk’s latest experimental novel, in which she writes about various artists, all known only as ‘G’. The truth is that I found it alienating and irritating and struggled to finish it

  • Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Soul Station

    The Berlin techno club provides the perfect setting for a pioneering game-making artist whose works hold visitors responsible for their actions

  • Prydie: The Life and Art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson

    Mother, wife, sister and daughter to artists who have eclipsed her deserved fame, this charming exhibition is one big family album, focusing on a woman who, during her lifetime, sought to hide in the shadows

  • Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere

    A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history