Category: Articles

  • Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia – Venice Biennale 2024

    His practice centres on journeys exploring the region where he was raised and lives as he attempts to capture the passage between present and past, between remembering and forgetting

  • Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles

    This enveloping Gesamtkunstwerk is a multifarious evocation of political resistance that does not make the mistake of disregarding the audience’s pleasure

  • George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion, Film – book review

    This long overdue look at the life and work of Hoyningen-Huene, a master of photography, combines intriguing insights into the Paris fashion world of the 1930s and beyond, with his pictures of timeless beauty, previously unpublished photographs and private letters

  • Tai Shani, The World to Me Was a Secret: Caesious, Zinnober, Celadon, and Virescent

    Shani’s interest in alternate worlds and modes of existence shines through in this surreal exhibition responding to the setting of Charles Jencks-designed Cosmic House

  • The Last Caravaggio

    This show brings Caravaggio’s last known painting to London, along with documents telling its story, and revealing a little more about the mysterious last months of its troubled and hugely influential creator

  • Jerwood Survey III

    This biennial touring exhibition presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists. The result is a visually and sensually intriguing show

  • The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art

    This richly written and sensitive work traces Mackintosh’s masterpiece from the building’s inception, through its two devastating fires, in 2014 and 2018, to its current reconstruction

  • Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive

    This not-to-be-missed exhibition includes a lifetime of Lijn’s works, providing new insights into her artistic vision and capacity to bridge the human and the technological in an elegant and affective fashion

  • Mohammed Sami: Isthmus

    In his new paintings, the rising Iraqi-born artist makes ambiguity alluring

  • Art Without Heroes: Mingei

    This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity