Category: Articles

  • Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth

    Houses squashed by bananas, handbags on legs, cartoon-like cars – Wurm’s sculptures are surreal and humorous, but with an underlying seriousness that mocks consumer culture and questions our perceptions of everyday objects

  • Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes

    An absorbing group show explores the familial, economic and spiritual connections between the Nigerian megacity and a south London suburb

  • The Casablanca Art School: Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962-1987

    This is the story of how a group of artists experimenting with strikingly modern and colourful abstract design transformed art in postcolonial Morocco

  • Jesse Jones: The Tower

    Injustices suffered by women – whether burnt at the stake or incarcerated in the Magdalene Institutions – threads through this powerful and moving show, a follow-up to Jones’s 2017 Venice Biennale work Tremble Tremble

  • Jean Cooke: Ungardening

    Focusing on paintings of her two beloved but untamed gardens, alongside self-portraits documenting the beatings she received from her husband, John Bratby, this small but important exhibition lays out clearly why Jean Cooke is a name that should be known

  • ChiaoHan Chueh: Intimate Play

    Seamlessly joining calligraphic and ink painting techniques to the painterly gestures of western brushwork, her works are exuberant but defiant, loaded with psychological reverberations

  • A Little History: Jane Hayes Greenwood

    Figurative paintings and sculptural works portray her experiences of pain and loss, birth, death and motherhood

  • Helsinki Biennial 2023: New Directions May Emerge

    If this second Helsinki Biennial lacks the ‘wow factor’ of its predecessor, it is partially down to its respect for the environment, and the city’s wider art community and institutions have more than filled the gaps

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: Memories of Drawings

    This small, touring exhibition gives an incredible insight into the mind of Georgia O’Keeffe, showcasing a portfolio of drawings, selected by the artist, to demonstrate her range and skill over several decades

  • Manchester International Festival 2023

    From a polka-dot tastic show from Yayoi Kusama to an unlikely combination of footballers and musicians, we look at what this year’s festival has to offer