Category: Articles

  • Rethinking pink

    A corporate and trademarked invention, Barbie Pink is still marketed as the colour of perpetual happiness. Tracing the multiple iterations of pink through art history, however, reveals more complex meanings

  • Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception

    With themes including Scottish identities, artistic communities and interior lives, this exhibition focuses on women across generations who have changed the face of the country’s art

  • Rowan Mace: Time’s Light, and Amy Winstanley: Slim Glimpses

    The calm and welcoming spaces at this Scottish gallery provide the perfect setting for Winstanley’s vibrant and joyous paintings and Mace’s painted wooden sculptures

  • Isa Genzken: 75/75

    A retrospective celebrates the German sculptor whose wide-ranging work sharply critiques the modern world

  • À Table: Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh

    Ghotmeh’s sociable pavilion, inspired by trees and sitting down to break bread together, invites us to congregate. But while it is sympathetic to its parkland setting, a reduced hospitality offer hampers the feasting and gathering

  • Edinburgh Art Festival 2023

    Despite its relaxed, fun atmosphere, this year’s festival tackles serious issues. It is about hope, humanity and learning to live together better

  • Clouds and Lights: Impressionism in Holland

    This master class in Dutch art history demonstrates the strength of the artistic impulses that came from France, while highlighting how important landscape remained for Dutch artists

  • Episode 10: Kara Chin – Concerned Dogs

    In a space that appears a cross between a cinema and a place of worship, a warped soundscape, a raucous video and doggy dioramas immerse us in Chin’s fictional and unsettling world

  • Grayson Perry: Smash Hits

    Perry mocks and self-flagellates his Englishness and class, his childhood memories and coping mechanisms, and reveals the endless awkwardness and angst of being at odds with one’s home and subject matter, with no obvious escape

  • Thomas J Price at the V&A

    His sculptures, fusions of ordinary people, overturn tradition in their material and scale, challenging our preconceptions and prejudices about Black people in visual culture