Category: Articles

  • Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness

    Guest curated by John Walter, as part of the Hayward Gallery’s Touring Curatorial Open, this vibrant and subversive group show is kaleidoscopic and entertaining, as well as intellectually stimulating

  • Cécile B Evans: Amos’ World: Episode One

    Cecile B Evans’s video transports us into the surreal world of an architect who believes he can build both a housing complex and a social structure. And by forcing viewers to watch from a dark cubbyhole, she draws us visually…

  • Andrzej Wróblewski

    The spectre of conflict haunts the powerfully enigmatic oeuvre of one of Poland’s pre-eminent postwar artists, at long last the subject of a solo exhibition in the UK

  • Lee Lozano: Slip, Slide, Splice

    A major figure on the New York art scene of the 1960s and early 70s, Lozano is not so well known these days. This new exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh – featuring expressive and fascinating paintings, drawings and…

  • Paul Brown: Process, Chance and Serendipity: Art That Makes Itself

    These radical works by Paul Brown highlight the wonders of computer programming in the realm of art-making

  • William Crozier: The Edge of Landscape

    Working in the shadow of the second world war, the nuclear threat and the Irish Troubles, Crozier’s work confirms that life is merciless. Yet even at its most desolate, there is a vitality to it, a forceful wildness that shines…

  • Being: New Photography 2018

    Iteration 2018 of MoMA’s biennial sampling of what’s trending in photography rethinks both the meaning of what it is to be human and the essential nature of the medium itself

  • Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

    Based on found photographs collected by French film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery examines the historical notion of cross-dressing, but in concentrating on a binary way of thinking, it has missed a trick

  • Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time

    Using 2,000 balls of thread, Chiharu Shiota’s installation of white woollen webbing in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park drifts up from floor to ceiling, twisting around and drawing you in to the spirit of the place

  • Marino Marini: Visual Passions

    At the home of his iconic equestrian sculpture, The Angel of the City, this retrospective of the Italian sculptor Marino Marini explores the breadth of his practice and range of his influences

  • SUPERSTRUCTURES: The New Architecture 1960-1990

    Forty years after it opened, the Sainsbury Centre plays host to an exhibition looking at the pioneering designs of architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Rogers in the latter half of the last century

  • Lilah Fowler: nth nature

    The exhibition nth nature, a new body of work by Lilah Fowler, explores feelings of transience and dissociation in response to increasingly pervasive networks of global transport and communication

  • Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings

    The great modernist writer serves as a presiding spirit in an inclusive, multifarious group show, displayed in the town that triggered her childhood imagination

  • Panorama Punjab

    Committed to placing this marginalised sector of India in the light once again, film-maker Sarah Singh has given Punjab its first international arts festival, a phoenix of contemporary and traditional creative expression, arisen in Patiala in front of the mighty…

  • Ingela Ihrman: We Thrive

    The Swedish artist’s works and her theatrical pieces – which include a giant hogweed, a giant otter giving birth and a toad doing gymnastics – make us look at the human race’s relationship with the natural world and the effects…

  • Murillo: The Self-Portraits

    A small number of Murillo’s rare portraits are brought together at the National Gallery to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth. But what can the only two self-portraits he painted tell us of the man himself?

  • Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy

    Despite passages of naked voyeurism, the Tate’s blockbuster intoxicates with passion, power and the pleasure of unbound creativity

  • The Armory Show 2018

    This year’s Armory Show offered viewers an impressive selection of works by a wide range of artists from around the world. Curated sections emphasised performance and installation, as well as interactions between art and technology. The enduring influence of postwar…

  • Robert Irwin

    Irwin’s immersive installations, with their experimental approach to light and space lead the viewer to question their own phenomenological experiences

  • Cinthia Marcelle: The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare

    In her first major UK solo exhibition, the Brazilian artist shows the importance of collective action in an exciting experiment in the occupation and transformation of publicly accessible space

  • Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing

    Presenting Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Gerald Laing in dialogue with each other within the context of their pop-inspired pointillism, Source and Stimulus is a vibrant study of the origin of the Ben-Day dot in fine art

  • All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

    Tate Britain’s All Too Human explores family, sex and death, and offers a fantastic chance to explore what connects some of the biggest names of the past 100 years

  • Cybernetic Serendipity: History and Lasting Legacy

    Catherine Mason considers the ICA’s groundbreaking computer art exhibition of 1968 and looks at how it has shaped digital art in the 50 years since

  • David Milne: Modern Painting

    An exhibition of work by the Canadian painter David Milne charts his progression from depictions of New York city scenes to the battlefields of France and Belgium back to the rural US and Canada, influenced on the way by European…