Category: Articles

  • Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

    This exhibition focuses on the 1910s, the most radical and experimental period of an artist who individually, and as a member of the Bloomsbury set, changed the face of British art

  • Watch! Watch! Watch! Henri Cartier-Bresson

    This comprehensive retrospective of the French master of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on his political side while also presenting a wider perspective on his work chronicling the 1930s to the 1970s

  • Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life

    Moody’s sculptures fizz with life in this beautifully paced show, in which the Jamaican artist’s works sit alongside those of contemporaries such as Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore

  • Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud

    This show, about the imprints of the human body, and which includes three new commissions – two tapestries and one of his ‘dust cloud’ installations – is conversely light and celestial

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939 – book review

    Robyn Asleson’s beautifully illustrated book follows women such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Peggy Guggenheim, who, freed from the restrictions of gender, sexuality and race in the US, became leading avant garde figures in early 20th-century Paris

  • Roger Mayne: Youth

    Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family

  • Huong Dodinh: Transcendence

    This exhibition, the Paris-based artist’s first solo show in New York, is a revelation in elegant minimalism honed over the past six decades

  • Discover Degas and Miss La La

    Take one exceptional work and tease out various strands to create a small but exemplary exhibition – this approach has paid dividends in the case of Degas and Miss La La

  • Sandra George

    George’s social-documentary photography is the standout exhibition of this year’s Glasgow International, giving agency once more to the less privileged among whom she worked

  • Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots

    Against the breathtaking landscape of the Val Gardena in Italy’s Dolomites, under the curation of Lorenzo Giusti, contemporary artists explore the links between culture and nature, between humans and the non-human