Category: Articles

  • Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez and their Students – book review

    This book shows how Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez, teaching at a small arts college for just a few years in the early 20th century, had a lasting effect on the theory and practice of the craft

  • Gego: Measuring Infinity

    The vibrant sculptural works in wire and metal for which Gertrud Goldschmidt is known are complemented in this major retrospective by etchings, prints and textiles, all of which expose her genius for conjuring movement and energy with the simple line

  • Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother

    The spirit of these works was forged by Sjöö in the 1960s and beyond, but their political urgency remains fresh and potent in an exhibition that turns attention to the power of the Great Cosmic Mother

  • The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time

    With more than 300 original posters from the early 1900s to the present, this exhibition honours the genre’s colourful history and draws attention to some of its little known aspects

  • Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler

    This exhibition celebrates the 80th birthday of the pioneering conceptual artist, from his early output in the 70s to contemporary works that build on his original ideas in a practice that includes cybernetics, advertising, artificial intelligence and behavioural theory

  • Emilio Prini: …E Prini

    A retrospective of the arte povera intellectual is not for the fainthearted. But it rewards perseverance

  • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art – book review

    Lauren Elkin draws on female ‘art monsters’ who have broken taboos around society’s expectations of womanhood, to reveal the complexities of living in a world where women are expected to appear pure and unsullied

  • MC Escher

    A blockbuster exhibition takes us into the mind-bending world of the Dutch printmaker. But is it art or sideshow attraction?

  • UVA Synchronicity

    United Visual Artists celebrates 20 years since its conception with eight stunning, large-scale, multisensory installations that fuse light, music and texts to challenge our perception of reality

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum: new look, new mission

    In September, the Smithsonian American Art Museum reopened its modern and contemporary galleries following a redesign, with a pledge to highlight art and artists excluded in the past. We take a tour to see what made the cut