Category: Articles

  • Art + Technology Week

    Events planned around the Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity symposium at the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium, Washington D.C.

  • The Enchanted Room: Modern Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera

    Teeming with hidden treasures, this exhibition is a compact survey of key movements and artists in Italian modern art in the early 20th century, a febrile moment in the country’s artistic and political history

  • Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989

    The exhibition is a must-see for anyone interested in the early history of computer technology and its connection to art and design

  • Giorgio Griffa: A Continuous Becoming

    With references to the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, Griffa’s paintings are works to puzzle out and ponder

  • Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0

    This exhibition looks at how social media platforms and the digital manipulation of images are being used to reflect on the ideals of female bodies

  • Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, extension

    Jamie Fobert Architects’ new wing for Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge opened this month, doubling the education space and bringing its facilities bang up to date. How harmonious is the marriage of this incisive 21st-century building with the Georgian and modernist…

  • Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil

    As revealed by this tightly curated exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tarsila do Amaral, the latest artist to ride the current wave of Brazilian modernism, turns out to have invented it

  • Glenn Brown: Come to Dust

    In a hulking presentation at Gagosian, the painter laureate of putrefaction continues to moulder old masterpieces into pestilent husks. To what end remains elusive

  • Andrew Lacon: Fragments – Kate V Robertson: This Mess Is Kept Afloat

    Two exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts confront and explore the relationships between the viewer, the art itself and the gallery space, in playful and thought-provoking ways

  • Camille Claudel

    Her legacy has often been dwarfed by her biography – as Rodin’s student and lover, who spent 30 years in a psychiatric institution. But with a new museum in her name, and 11 of her works saved for the French…

  • After White: Michaela Zimmer and Peter Welz

    Weaving a path in and out of Peter Welz’s awkward steel architectural intervention, the viewer comes up close and personal, in an unsettling way, with Michaela Zimmer’s layered canvases. Scratch the surface and there is far more to be told…

  • Andreas Gursky

    This first major UK retrospective of German photographer Andreas Gursky, at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery, is a must-see visual feast of epic proportions

  • Merrie Albion: Landscape Studies of a Small Island

    From the diamond jubilee to the ruins of Grenfell Tower, Simon Roberts captures the events that have defined the British experience of the past decade

  • Charles I: King and Collector

    The Royal Academy celebrates its 250th year with a collection of riches fit for a king – and every room is packed with drama

  • A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950

    At a time when the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe is at stake, this exhibition of the artistic dialogue between Scotland and the continent is illuminating and inspiring

  • Art Now: Marguerite Humeau: Echoes

    French-born artist Marguerite Humeau resurrects an eerie voice from the ancient past at Tate Britain. And she adds in some exotic fluids for good measure

  • Threesome and 3X3

    Curator Anna McNay has put together two exhibitions – Threesome, a collaboration between three female painters, and 3X3, photographic self-portraits by nine queer female artists – which explore the female gaze with the aim of ‘making people question how they…

  • The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind

    With an extraordinary diversity of work, from medieval Korean ceramics to cutting-edge conceptual art to Women’s Institute tea towels, this show aims to dispel the myth of the rural as a picturesque backwater, and assert its right as a vital…

  • Lumiere London 2018

    Featuring works by 50 artists and digital / lighting studios and producers, this feast of light and sound turned London into a spectacular, highly photogenic, pulsing theme park. But in its efforts to maximise entertainment, it fell short on actual…

  • Cézanne Portraits

    A deep humanity surfaces in this outstanding exhibition of more than 50 of Cézanne’s portraits

  • A History of Drawing

    The inaugural exhibition at the Camberwell College of Arts’ new space is a sensitive, nuanced look at eight decades of a core artistic form

  • What Absence Is Made Of

    This exhibition brings together more than 70 works from the Hirshhorn’s collection in an attempt to explore how artists attempt to show what absence looks like

  • Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990 – 2017

    Philip Pearlstein’s nudes are a triumph of draughtsmanship and the product of a lifetime of learning and graft. And although he strives for images devoid of stories, this skill betrays a more enigmatic world

  • Anne de Boer & ecksenis.net: System Attempt Contact

    System Attempt Contact critiques the way today’s tech multinationals transcend the borders between global and local, city and suburb, on- and offline