Category: Articles

  • Charlie Stiven – interview: ‘You don’t need to be loud to be expressive. Quiet, deep contemplation and response can be hugely effective’

    The artist talks about the 3D models in his earlier exhibition, Kiosk, at Summerhall, Edinburgh, including End of the Pier Show, now on permanent display there, and why Brexit has been so bad for Britain and for artists

  • Yoshitomo Nara

    His children may appear unrealistic and simplistic, but they pulsate with a complexity of emotional pain that exceeds our idea of innocence, as if the kids carry the imprint of the adult world’s woes

  • Helen Charman – interview: ‘Young V&A is a very optimistic space. It’s airy, it’s colourful, it’s playful’

    The Young V&A has been awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award. The institution’s director discusses the museum’s creative transformation and its vision to build a community programme for deprived children living along the Thames Estuary

  • Take a Breath

    At a time when the WHO says pollution is the biggest threat to our existence, this immersive show explores the air we breathe and its geological, cultural and political significance, with work from artists including Isabel Nolan, Ana Mendieta, Marina…

  • Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent

    For 50 years, Kennard’s activist art has railed against corporate and state power, wars and poverty. And as this exhibition spanning those five decades shows, his outrage has not abated

  • Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

    A compelling exhibition turns back the clock to the last Paris Olympics, where art, photography and sport collided like never before and athletics entered the age of celebrity

  • Jason Wilsher-Mills – interview: ‘Doing art is like cultural national service’

    The life-affirming British artist, whose latest show, curated by Shamita Sharmacharja, is at the Wellcome Collection in London, reflects on illness and disability as catalysts for artistic awakening, the potency of everyday surrealism, and the incalculable importance of family

  • Noémie Goudal: Contours of Certainty

    She explodes our sense of landscape, form and material in the combination of ceramics with photographic compositions, blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion

  • Get the Picture – book review

    In this brilliant and amusing book, journalist Bianca Bosker infiltrates the world of art and the gallerists, collectors, curators and artists who people it. In her effort to understand what makes good art, she treks to numerous art shows, spends…

  • Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song

    Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinating backstory of its conception and making