Category: Articles

  • The Rossettis

    This exhibition is both broader and narrower than its title suggests. In a nutshell, it brings together undeniably beautiful – if, on reflection, a little disturbing – poetry and paintings about obsessive love

  • Guy-Ernest Debord & Gil Joseph Wolman: L’un n’exclut pas l’autre [The one does not exclude the other]

    This exhibition is a joy, combining leaflets, flyers and other ephemera from Debord and Wolman’s period of collaborative working and their Lettrist International project, as well as artworks that Wolman created after the two had parted ways

  • Kate Spencer Stewart: Diurne

    Stewart takes into account the contingencies of ambient light, her works iridescent, shimmering between hues and moods depending on the moment, and on where you stand

  • Kira Freije – interview: ‘There’s a fine line I always have to tread of staying somewhere strange and interesting to me’

    The E-Werk’s Turbine Hall is the perfect setting for Freije’s new figurative metal sculptures. This vast venue opened up new possibilities for her work, she says, explaining the ideas behind her figures and how using lighting designers has been transformational

  • Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life

    They never met or even knew of one another’s work, yet they are united by a belief in theosophy and divine nature and a penchant for abstract painting

  • Emily Kraus: Nest Time

    This young painter, fresh out of the Royal College of Art, has already developed her own, very distinctive way of method of painting, producing vivid and dramatic textured works

  • Andy Warhol: The Textiles

    If you thought you knew everything about Warhol’s work, this show may surprise you. The curators have unearthed a selection of vintage garments and fabrics printed with designs that reveal Warhol’s wit and eye for a memorable image

  • Michael E Smith

    A scruffy old armchair, two grubby basketballs, ventilation panels, dirty white walls – it’s unsettling, not what you expect of a show. But this sense of discomfiture is exactly what Smith wants you to feel

  • Hunterian Art Gallery Reframed

    Scotland’s oldest public museum has “reframed” its historic collection to recognise Glasgow’s links to empire, slavery and colonialism

  • Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me

    Charting 40 years of the film-maker’s career, this exhibition immerses its audience in slavery, immigration and homophobia. This is cultural activism at its best