Category: Articles

  • Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden

    Rego’s giant mural, a bold riposte to patriarchy, with its strong female figures drawn from myths, fables, biblical stories and even gallery staff, is shown here along with the altarpiece that inspired it

  • Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings – Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey

    This small but illuminating show is a superb reintroduction to a sadly neglected artist, focusing on Hodler’s rarely shown drawings, with his beautifully delineated figures and romantic landscapes

  • Joe Tilson – book review

    Marco Livingstone’s monograph, with more than 600 illustrations, weaves biographical detail with an authority of British art history in a definitive account of this important artist

  • Venice Architecture Biennale 2023: The Laboratory of the Future

    This year’s curator, the Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko, has brought new insights and perspectives, prioritising representation from Africa and the diaspora. The works on show serve to highlight the role architecture plays in expressing the best and worst of humanity

  • Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is

    Pierre draws us into her own uncanny mythical world underpinned by spirituality in a show that focuses on her works on paper

  • A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography

    Africa’s diverse cultural traditions, the history of modern colonialism and present-day social, political and environmental concerns are at the heart of this striking exhibition

  • Secessions: Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann

    At the end of the 19th century a group of artists in Munich, Vienna and Berlin broke away from the traditional art societies to revolutionise the way art was exhibited. While featuring the three most prominent figures of what became…

  • AI: Who’s Looking After Me?

    This exhibition considers the hottest – and to some most frightening – of hot topics, artificial intelligence, and its role within systems affecting everyday life

  • In-Spire: Breath of Life

    Fashion stylist Shinichi Mita brings together 11 craftspeople to show how traditional Japanese workmanship practised for hundreds of years can be adapted for the future

  • Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

    More than 40 dresses and embroidered objects from Jordan and the West Bank, along with filmed interviews, trace the evolution of this traditional craft during sweeping political and social changes in the region