Category: Articles

  • Alex Katz: ‘Ultimately, content is not important. The style is what is important’

    As his student subway drawings go on show alongside recent paintings and sculptures at Timothy Taylor, London, Alex Katz explains why he believes content to be unimportant, and what he means by seeking only to portray the ‘immediate presence’

  • Monica Bonvicini: 3612,54 M³ VS 0,05 M³

    In her latest exhibition, the rather unwieldy title of which refers to the volume of space in the gallery vs that of the artist, Monica Bonvicini employs her large installations to consider notions of power, domination and control

  • Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies

    Philadelphia’s most illustrious thoroughfare celebrated its 100th anniversary with a spectacular and enchanting live performance from Cai Guo-Qiang

  • Rachel Whiteread Retrospective

    In the most substantial survey of Rachel Whiteread’s work to date, the Tate looks back over 30 years of her sculptures

  • Idris Khan: Absorbing Light

    Reflections on the horrors of one of Syria’s most famous prisons have driven Idris Khan to new forms of expression, including bronze sculptures and abstract painting

  • Expo Chicago 2017

    An ambitious Expo Chicago showed positive signs of a refined personality, an adventurous pioneering of emerging galleries and artists, as well as an exciting off-site collaboration with Palais de Tokyo

  • Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

    MoMA’s expertly curated exhibition of Bourgeois’ prints rescue the artist from her legend, revealing her drawings to have incubated, formulated and unleashed the emotions that would be entrapped in the fame of her sculpture

  • Jenny Holzer: Softer

    In her current exhibition at Blenheim Palace, Holzer responds to the building’s military history with more than 50 works examining the brutality of war

  • Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life

    Among the casts of suicide vests, it is the Chapman brothers’ reworked etchings of Goya that hold the interest, drawing us in to view more closely the horrors of war

  • Zach Blas: Contra-Internet

    Zach Blas searches for a future beyond the internet’s catch-all web at the artist’s Gasworks exhibition Contra-Internet

  • From the Vapor of Gasoline

    This exhibition is a lively collection of works from a group of impressive and challenging artists, which together tell a powerful story of the social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century

  • Martin Puryear

    This retrospective is nicely paced to reflect the breadth and depth in Martin Puryear’s sculptures, which draw you in with their physical and aesthetic seductions, all the better to unsettle and undermine you with the slow reveal of their ambiguities

  • Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980

    At the risk of exposing the theme show as a curatorial conceit, this selection of work produced in the years opened to exploration and exclamation by war, drugs and social conflict reveals a new way of seeing it

  • Thomas Schütte

    Mixing familiar Schütte tropes with new ones, the great German sculptor’s first London show in five years parades his eclectic, disconcerting talents

  • Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz

    Celebrated in her native Germany, Käthe Kollwitz, born 150 years ago this year, is sadly little known in the UK, but this well-selected touring exhibition of nearly 40 of her prints seeks to put this oversight to rights

  • John Hoyland: Stain Paintings 1964–1966

    This, the first New York exhibition of John Hoyland’s work in 25 years, brings together seven of his monumental stain paintings along with works on paper. Don’t miss it

  • Basquiat: Boom for Real

    A revelatory exhibition at the Barbican liberates Jean-Michel Basquiat from his mythos and allows his art to speak for itself

  • Sara Barker: The faces of older images

    Sara Barker’s exhibition of five wall-based relief sculptures, which opens Mary Mary’s new space in Glasgow city centre, continues her trademark fusion of sculpture and painting, abstraction and figuration, history and the present

  • Suspended Animation

    Nine contemporary artists ask what has become of reality and physicality in the age of the virtual – and imagine human existence in a digital future

  • It’s How Well You Bounce

    In the grounds of the UK’s first hospital to treat people with mental illness, lie a fascinating museum and gallery. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Bethlem Gallery is holding an exhibition of work by those, including Grayson Perry, who…

  • Folkestone Triennial 2017

    The fourth triennial outing for this slowly regenerating UK seaside town sees curator Lewis Biggs invite a multicultural cast of artists, architects and activists to bring their sonic, sculptural, performative and visual talents to bear in revealing new perspectives on…

  • Klimt and Antiquity: Erotic Encounters

    Bringing together works by Gustav Klimt with pottery, sculptures and texts from late classical antiquity, this insightful exhibition charts the influence of the ancient Attic artists on the Austrian secessionist, in particular in providing material for the development of his…

  • Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans

    German painter Daniel Richter’s first UK solo show reveals uncomfortable truths about human expression, voyeurism and isolation

  • Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius

    This brilliant show from Dutch industrial designer Jongerius aims to ‘tickle the eyes of the viewer’, exploring how colour behaves and is affected by shape, texture and light