Category: Articles

  • America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

    This is a fabulously varied exhibition with a sting in the tail. The times, they were a changin’, but so much remains the same

  • The photographic works of Kishin Shinoyama: Picture Power

    The Japanese photographer, famous for his portraits of celebrities and nudes, has selected about 120 works, taken over a 50-year period, leading the viewer on a trip down memory lane

  • Alexei Jawlensky

    Jawlensky’s art may be considered a life-long meditation on the process of change in his personal life

  • Do Ho Suh: Passage/s

    With the lightest of touches, artist Do Ho Suh can transform the architectural into a symbol of the transient – and temporal – nature of life

  • Michael Andrews: Earth Air Water

    Best known for his party scenes, Michael Andrews’ later landscapes reveal him as a master of perspective and a laureate of uncertainty

  • Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932

    The fascinating and expansive exhibition provides an intriguing and rare insight into the dialogue between art and politics, the individual and the state, freedom of expression and the pull of ideology

  • Gluck and Modern British Women

    During her lifetime, Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck) refused to show in group exhibitions. The Fine Art Society has stayed true to her wishes with this extensive retrospective on the ground floor complemented by an exhibition upstairs of works by several of…

  • Amie Siegel: Strata

    From the world’s deepest underground marble quarry to a fragment of pink marble from Trump Towers, via Freud’s consulting room, Siegel takes us on a journey to explore how objects come to represent status and success

  • House Work

    The house and its potential as a home, a prison, a marker in one’s life, is fertile territory and an inspired idea for an exhibition but, in this case, one lacking in impact

  • The Place Is Here

    The 1980s were a fertile time for black British artists to interrogate their experience of racial division, economic inequality and civil unrest, and The Place is Here resonates powerfully with today’s cultural and political zeitgeist

  • David Hockney

    Celebrating 60 years of Hockney’s work, this exhibition charts the art of a modern great through decades of change

  • Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

    While Vanessa Bell stands strong as an artist in her own right, her art can nevertheless not be separated from her life at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group

  • Bouchra Khalili

    In her first solo UK exhibition, French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili explores the fraught concepts of freedom, nationhood and displacement using film, video and silk-screen prints

  • Conceptual Art Now

    Three exhibitions of conceptual art in Germany shed some light on the elusive genre. Taryn Simon’s Dresden show is an example of a type of contemporary conceptual art that relies on craft, material and concept, while two exhibitions in Berlin…

  • A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

    This exhibition of Russian art from the 1920s and 30s, based on MoMA’s own collection, is a heartening celebration of a period of remarkable creativity and development

  • Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion

    Unravelling some of the interwoven and incestuous tales relating to the 20th-century modernist protagonists in their rural Sussex settings, this exhibition is as compelling narratively as it is aesthetically and politically

  • Richard Wilson: Stealing Space

    ‘I’m just making the unknown real,’ says Wilson, about his new exhibition, Stealing Space at Annely Juda Fine Art in London

  • John Baldessari: Miró and Life in General

    As he continues his late-career conversation with art history, the archetypical Californian conceptualist’s seemingly simple works open up a mire of ambiguity

  • TeamLab: Transcending Boundaries

    If there were a happiness index for exhibitions, then teamLab: Transcending Boundaries would score a solid 10 out of 10

  • Jamie Crewe: Female Executioner

    Seeking ancestry in a controversial and pornographic 19th-century French novel, this queer, transfeminine artist questions the problematic of rehabilitating a historical work of fiction from a contemporary standpoint

  • One and Other

    The Zabludowicz Collection sets the stage for a shrewd reflection on the real versus the created self in the modern age

  • Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

    Building on the legacy of feminist art from the 1970s, this exhibition includes photographic and video works by 17 contemporary artists from five continents, from the 80s to today, presenting woman as creator and subject of her work

  • Rezi van Lankveld: ‘I pour paint to make a “happening” in the painting’

    The Dutch painter explains how her attitude to painting has changed and talks about her recent paintings, now on show at New York’s Petzel Gallery, which reveal a new focus on colour

  • The Studio and the Arts and Crafts Movement

    This article was first published in High Art and Low Life: The Studio and the fin de siécle, a special centenary issue of Studio International (Volume 201, Number 1021/1023, 1993) that incorporated the catalogue to the 1993 exhibition High Art…