Category: Articles

  • Giuseppe Penone: Fui, Sarò, Non Sono

    Although he may not initially seem to possess the radicalism of his arte povera contemporaries, the Italian artist’s work abounds with mellow fruitfulness and measured contemplation

  • Image Music Text: Andrew Gillespie, Andrew Lacon, Joanne Masding

    Nathaniel Pitt explains that he looked to the processes of artists, instead of the subjects of their work, to curate the show. The three artists in this show, he says, are not starting from media, but from their curiosity

  • Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia

    In an exhibition dominated by self-portraits and seascapes, Celia Paul demonstrates the virtues of subtlety and perseverance

  • Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz

    With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society

  • Oscar Murillo: through patches of corn, wheat and mud

    Canvases appear abandoned on the floor and wet paint suggest a state of un-finish, but the compositions are complex, and the overlaid marks, prints, and repeated brushstrokes, a result of a prolonged process and experimentation

  • Tacita Dean: LA Exuberance

    New lithographs, slate drawings and a film of David Hockney, all done by Dean when she was in Los Angeles, are being shown alongside her acclaimed 2015 film Event for a Stage

  • Abstract Expressionism

    The towering canvases of abstract expressionism crowd the main galleries of the Royal Academy in this monumental exhibition

  • Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

    Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…

  • Surreal Encounters Collecting the Marvellous

    A fantastic range of Surrealist works and ephemera displayed in this exhibition shows the mutifaceted nature of the surrealist art movement, encountered through four different collections of Surrealist art

  • Rashid Johnson: Fly Away

    This is Johnson at his best. Mirrors, branded wood, black soap, shea butter, cut-up photography – his trademark materials are all here in this vast gallery, as he draws visitors in to contemplate his themes of anxiety and race

  • Karin Schneider: Situational Diagram

    Restricting herself to the abstract and the monochrome, referencing Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and setting rules for the sale of her work, Schneider questions the central relationships in art – between artist and antecedent, gallerist and buyer

  • Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong

    From yeti expeditions to spy shenanigans, the Himalayan hotel in Kalimpong has seen it all. Now, a new virtual reality work – along with its accompanying exhibition and publication – invites you to step back in time and explore

  • Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects

    An enlightening and enriching insight into the juvenilia of the controversial photographer, showing 12 rarely seen collage and assemblage works, in which he develops motifs and themes that continue throughout his career

  • James Richards: Requests and Antisongs

    Sensory stimulation is privileged over semantics in this tripartite installation of new works by the Turner Prize-nominated sound and video artist

  • Meet the designers doing good this autumn in London

    More than 400 events and installations from high-profile designers and rising stars were included in this year’s London Design Festival, while the city’s inaugural design biennale showcased the works of 37 countries at Somerset House

  • Dialogue with Trees: Five Stories of Rebirth and Renewal

    To celebrate its 90th birthday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is staging an exhibition of works in wood, from vast installations to finely chiselled pieces, by five contemporary Japanese artists  

  • Michael Buthe

    Combining elements of Christian iconography and ritual with artefacts from North African and oriental culture, Buthe created entrancing and immersive installations, at once meditative and full of energy

  • William Kentridge: Thick Time

    This remarkable show offers six of the South African artist’s most potent installations – and six chances to enter Kentridge’s shivering monochrome universe

  • Ed Moses: Painting as Process

    In the still eye of the swirl of the happening art that opens Manhattan’s autumn season stands a small, beautiful and defining exhibition that makes a case for process as mantra, manifesto and trophy

  • The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam

    He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…

  • Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

    The record, begun in the 1970s, of a 15-year period in Goldin’s life, is grounded in a specific place and culture, yet it is a hauntingly universal and deeply affecting work and, decades on, it has lost none of its…

  • Peter Cain

    This retrospective exhibition displays Cain’s huge, forensic paintings of cars, strangely truncated yet irresistibly seductive

  • Jess Johnson: ‘My work is a visual stew’

    The fantastical world of Jess Johnson has arrived in Edinburgh, in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe. She talks about translating her intensely detailed drawings into virtual reality

  • Forest of Expression: Art as a Communal Act

    Eight projects explore how art and expressing ideas and emotions can help those on the fringes of society, with the aim of bringing art to those who often find it inaccessible