Category: Articles

  • Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas

    Raucous, bawdy, sweary and crude, this major survey comprises works that are not always easy to stomach, but which make an important comment on our experiences of sex, class and gender

  • Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell: Shift. Breathe. Expand. Painting in Space

    This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, composition and the materiality of paper

  • Hélio Oiticica: Waiting for the internal sun

    A concise survey of the genre-hopping Brazilian artist shows him breaking new ground, even as his life took an unexpected turn

  • Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles

    Partners in life and work, they supplied fabrics to Heal’s and Liberty, as well as for the film Ben-Hur and the interior of the Royal Festival Hall, yet Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen are largely forgotten. This show makes clear…

  • Inside Other Spaces. Environments By Women Artists 1956-1976

    Many of the pioneers in environmental art were women, but their works were often ephemeral, destroyed once a show was over. Here, the curators have painstakingly recreated some of those works, putting their artists firmly back in the spotlight

  • Lisetta Carmi: Identities

    Motivated by a profoundly humanistic spirit, Lisetta Carmi photographed marginalised communities. One year after her death, the Estorick Collection’s exhibition introduces the UK audience to her images of great strength and tender fragility

  • 40th EVA International, 2023

    Ireland’s biennial is this year based on the concept of gleaning, when unused crops are divided among these in need, and across the city of Limerick artistic offerings abound with positivity and collectivism

  • Bernard Cohen: Things Seen

    An exhibition of recent works by the veteran British painter draws on medieval stained glass, Velázquez, nature and the process of painting

  • Leiko Ikemura: When Animals Become Art

    In an institution like no other, the Japanese-Swiss artist’s works are juxtaposed with her stuffed animal collection to create a lively menagerie

  • Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North

    Rakowitz has recreated the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the form of a sculptural relief and a living garden of plants and herbs, collaborating with local people with experience of displacement