Category: Articles

  • Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia

    The Scythians are coming to the British Museum this autumn and we have more in common with these ancient nomads than you might imagine, as curator St John Simpson explains

  • Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

    The organisers of this exhibition are keen to show how the Dutch genre painters both drew inspiration from one another and were spurred on by rivalry, but this intention is undercut by the paintings of Vermeer. The others painted for…

  • Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

    A capacious retrospective of the long-neglected Victorian academician uncovers a master of the sensuous with a surprising knack for experimentation

  • A Perfect Chemistry: Photographs by Hill and Adamson

    A celebration of collaboration, friendship and innovative spirit, A Perfect Chemistry illuminates the groundbreaking photography produced by David Hill and Robert Adamson in early-19th century Scotland, and the touching story surrounding its production

  • Santiago Sierra: Impenetrable Structure

    The controversial Spanish artist returns to London with a new site-specific installation that continues his interest in borders and displacement

  • Julian Lethbridge: Inside Out

    The 13 new paintings by Julian Lethbridge, now on show in Berlin, are works of virtuosity and dedication, and provide a captivating and absorbing demonstration of a painter exploring his unique approach to the fullest

  • Hans Hansen: Still Life

    This survey of six decades of the work of German photographer Hans Hansen, perhaps best known for his photographs of a dismantled Volkswagen Beetle and later a Golf, revels in his eye for surface texture, purity of form and iconographic…

  • Matisse in the Studio

    This exhibition tells the story of Matisse’s collecting habits, but fails to conjure up the joy of discovery

  • Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

    This inspiring retrospective at the Whitney captures the sensuous resonance of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s work, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the life-affirming spirit of his oeuvre

  • Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’

    The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse

  • Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

    The YBA’s watery comeback dazzles with its extravagance, but the audacity of Hirst’s exhibition only goes so far

  • Delving into coding: the art of Harold Cohen

    Harold Cohen, who developed Aaron, one of the first and most complex software programs for computer-generated art, died last year at the age of 87. We look back at his achievements

  • Hanne Darboven: Korrespondenzen

    An exhibition in Berlin uses a collection of correspondence to place the great German conceptualist Hanne Darboven in context

  • Clare Woods: Victim of Geography

    For her first solo exhibition in Scotland, the renowned British artist Clare Woods presents 11 striking new paintings

  • Bill Viola Retrospective

    Bill Viola’s strength is in using the video camera to get under the viewer’s skin, peeling away what we think we know about reality. But now, it seems, he has been seduced by the technology of the medium, to the…

  • Andrew Rogers: I AM–ENERGY

    Among Expo 2017’s vast complex of pavilions stands Andrew Rogers’ I AM–ENERGY. A sculptural feat of engineering, it spirals triumphantly upwards to more than 10 metres, confronting visitors like a graceful ballerina en pointe

  • Dreamers Awake

    Filled with dark eroticism and witty visual puns, Dreamers Awake is a sprawling survey that explores the influence of surrealism through works by women artists from the 1920s on

  • Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

    This is an exhibition of tragedy, celebration and defiance at a time of change and violence in the US’s racial history. Soul of a Nation is powerful, moving and brimming with artistic heroes who, until now, have been largely overlooked…

  • Maggie’s Centre for cancer care, Oldham

    An enchanting matchbox on stilts, with a garden below and a tree at its centre, there is poetry, symbolism and a real emotional intelligence here at dRMM’s new Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Oldham

  • Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933

    A portrait of a nation, of an era, and, at heart, of humanity, this dual exhibition of two key artists of the Weimar Republic – photographer August Sander and painter Otto Dix – gives a comprehensive overview of the sociopolitical…

  • Raqib Shaw

    A new show at the Whitworth Manchester combines Raqib Shaw’s paintings and sculptures with prints, textiles and objects that reveal an intense dialogue between the ages and across continents

  • Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital

    These drawings from the forgotten sketchbooks of the well-known feminist artist Ida Applebroog offer an intimate insight into her struggle with depression during a six-week stay at Mercy Hospital in 1969

  • Tom Burr: Surplus of Myself

    Running parallel to Münster’s Skulptur Projekte, notions of private and public are unsettled in this playful post-minimal exhibition of new works by American artist Tom Burr

  • Learning from Athens: Documenta 14 (Part two, Kassel)

    Returned to its traditional home in central Germany, Documenta 14 abounds with intelligent, well-curated art by an often obscure array of international practitioners. But does it live up to its valiant political aims?