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  • Cybernetic Serendipity – a walk around the exhibition

    With artificial intelligence and its effect on creativity high on the agenda, now is the perfect time to revisit the ICA’s landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition of 1968  

  • Lawrence Lek: NOX

    In a vast three-floor installation, Lek turns what we think we know about AI on its head, as we follow the fictional Farsight Corporation struggling to fix the mental health crisis of a sentient self-drive car

  • Tania Pérez Córdova: Generalization

    Pérez Córdova’s work addresses the passage of time, the nature of materials, and how we assign value to objects

  • Artes Mundi 10

    The biennial art prize for international activist artists celebrates its 10th birthday with seven nominations. The work of each artist will feature in the AM10 exhibition, which continues to February 2024 in five locations around the prize’s home nation of…

  • Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art

    This rigorously researched and curated, yet aesthetically delightful, exhibition forces the visitor to reckon with Oscar Wilde’s statement that the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it

  • Ofelia Rodríguez: Talking in Dreams

    Though she lived abroad for most of her life, her exuberant use of colour and fantastical visions show that Rodríguez maintained a persistent and complex dialogue with her Latin American and Caribbean heritage

  • Real Families: Stories of Change

    Bringing together portraiture from modern painters and setting them against historic depictions, this exhibition looks at how the idea of family has transformed in the past 50 years

  • José Parlá – interview: ‘I was experiencing flashbacks to my dreams from the coma, and I put that into these paintings’

    Following a life-and-death experience, the New York-based Cuban artist explores different notions of reality in breathtaking paintings that capture the lights we all see in the dark

  • Nicole Eisenman: What Happened

    A thrilling survey of the American artist injects the venerable medium of painting with vitality and virtuosity

  • Elisa Giardina Papa: Flock – She Preferred the Lineage of Goats and Ducks

    In a series of new ceramic works, video and works on paper, the Sicilian artist explores the myths and traditions she learned as a child from her grandmother, in particular the tales of women persecuted as heretics by the Spanish…