Category: Articles

  • Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings

    This show focuses on Anderson’s barbershop paintings, a subject he has been returning to for 15 years, blurring reality and imagination, as he explores a social space so important to the black British Caribbean community

  • Saint Francis of Assisi

    Saint Francis of Assisi, whose story began with a painting, has been depicted in more than 20,000 works of art. This exhibition offers an introduction to the visual biography of a saint who remains remarkably modern

  • Ellsworth Kelly at 100

    This exhilarating and comprehensive show, celebrating the centennial of the artist’s birth, features 70 works, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and some rarely shown photographs

  • Agata Słowak: Time Is Love

    Identity and sexuality are explored in the young Polish artist’s powerful and controversial paintings, in which the female nude is often the central focus

  • Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

    With her focus on quiet domestic interiors and sensitive portraits of women, Gwen has long been seen as a shy recluse, but this show makes clear that she was anything but

  • The Reason for Painting

    This show is billed as bringing together a group of younger artists ‘experimenting with colour, mark and form, to create moments of joy’, but while there is much to enjoy here it is hard to find commonalities

  • La Horde

    An invigorating survey of the French art and dance collective explores how dance binds communities together

  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

    In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, covering almost five decades, she offers a view of US history, geography and government policy through an Indigenous lens

  • Perfect Behaviours. Life Redesigned by the Algorithm

    Are we free to make our own decisions in an age in which technology is used to manipulate us? Curator Giorgio Olivero hopes the works of the six artists in this show will make us more aware and therefore better…

  • Simone Leigh

    Ceramic, bronze and video works spanning 20 years of Leigh’s practice, including nine works from last year’s Venice Biennale, give power to the strength, endurance and knowledge of Black women