Category: Articles

  • Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive

    Through his sensitive and thoughtful works, Kourbaj ensures the plight of those in his native Syria cannot be forgotten

  • William Blake’s Universe

    The English eccentric meets his German peers in a treasure-strewn exhibition that makes Blake seem stranger than ever

  • Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century

    Highlights from the golden age of photography, produced for fashion magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, lead us on a stunning journey through fashion and social change from 1910 to the late 1970s

  • Thea Djordjadze: Framing Yours Making Mine

    In this comprehensive show, the Georgian artist’s spare sculptural works emanate a sense of disconnection, disruption and dislocation

  • Soulscapes

    Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Alberta Whittle and other artists from the African diaspora consider how identity and collective history impact individuals’ relationships with the environment

  • Gillian Lowndes: Radical Clay

    A post-apocalyptic landscape or an abandoned toolshed? This compact exhibition, by ceramics sculptor Gillian Lowndes, inspires the mind to wander

  • Sargent and Fashion

    This show looks at how Sargent styled his sitters, insisting they wore certain garments or rearranging them, using fashion as a tool to reveal their personalities

  • Francis Picabia: Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950

    A career-spanning exhibition of drawings and watercolours shows the elusive modernist at his most direct

  • Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change

    The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 historical and contemporary works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past

  • Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You

    As poetic as it is urgent, Barbara Kruger’s text-based work packs a weighty punch. Her methods of direct address implicate the viewer, leaving no space for complacency