Category: Articles

  • Crossing the Line 3: Global Drawing

    (including Contemporary Australian Drawing #5 and A Global Audit: Drawing Everywhere) Florence was the venue for the third of the Crossing the Line conferences, which explore the role of the artist in society. It also included two exhibitions, one of…

  • Matthew Barney: River of Fundament

    Film, opera, sculpture, ancient Egypt, contemporary industrial America, Normal Mailer – this exhibition has it all. But making sense of Matthew Barney’s five-hour, epic film and the works inspired by and made for it, is not easy – nor is…

  • Noah Davis: Imitation of Wealth

    The opening of this exhibition, which should have been a day of celebration, sadly became a day of mourning marking the death of the artist at the age of 32. In what has become Davis’s final completed project, his intellect…

  • Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954

    The exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art opens up a new perspective on the role of prints and drawings in the development of the artist’s oeuvre

  • Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein

    As part of the Artist Rooms series, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is showing 16 key works by Roy Lichtenstein, spanning three decades and three rooms. His wry sense of humour and memorable images are as…

  • Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity

    Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom

  • Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945

    The first of its kind in France, this exhibition shines a light on the great accomplishments of early female photographers in Europe and the United States

  • Vanessa Baird wins Norway’s prestigious Lorck Schive Art Prize 2015

    The Norwegian artist, an uncompromising but vital talent, was the deserving winner of one of Europe’s major art prizes

  • Mark Leckey: Dream English Kid 1964-1999AD

    The Turner Prize-winner returns with a short film that sees him dig deeper in his exploration of British culture and the various youth subcultures that existed in the final 35 years of the 20th century

  • Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015

    Nineteen emerging artists respond to the demands of the digital age in this annual exhibition devoted to new photography, offering expanded possibilities for depicting the real, the remembered and the imagined

  • The Body as Language: Women and Performance

    This historically salient show, examining the birth and development of performance art in relation to gender, the body, language and the expression of the self, marks the 40th anniversary of a seminal book on the subject by Lea Vergine

  • Balthus Retrospective

    Marking the 15th anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic painters, this grand exhibition is showing around 200 works of art of Balthasar Klossowski de Role, known as Balthus

  • Emily Jacir: Europa

    For the first time in the UK, the artist is exhibiting her award-winning Material for a Film. Alongside this central work is nearly 20 years’ worth of sculpture, film, drawings, installations and photography

  • Danny Fox – interview: ‘My whole approach to my work can change in a single drawing’

    Danny Fox talks about trying to give up drinking, why politicians should force us all to be vegan, getting black dots in his eyes when he visits galleries, and hating art shows

  • Valera & Natasha Cherkashin: ‘There is no future without understanding our past and our present’

    The Russian artist couple talk about the importance of history in their work and the beginnings and development of their multimedia art practice, encompassing photography, performance, video, digital art, painting and drawing

  • Sara VanDerBeek: Electric Prisms, Concrete Forms

    As the artist returns for her third solo show at The Approach in London, she continues to create three-dimensional photographs, exploring the relationship between image and sculpture

  • Ian Cheng: ‘I wanted to make a project that would relax me’

    The artist describes his live simulation at Pilar Corrias as the visual alternative to a spa. His initial intention was to create a stress-free piece of work that would relax him and other people who were anxious about life’s unknowns

  • Dutch Design Week

    This year’s Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven brought together established and up-and-coming designers, from around the world. They displayed a collaborative work ethic and a lively engagement with real-world issues, from the refugee crisis in Europe to social development in…

  • Jefford Horrigan: The Threshold, Own Worst Enemy

    In the sitting room of a house in south London, Jefford Horrigan performed The Threshold, part of his trilogy Own Worst Enemy, commissioned by The Collective. This tenderly performed work was a masterpiece of alternative creativity

  • Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings

    This tightly focused and coherent exhibition concentrates on the paintings the artist made in response to his experiences as a glider pilot from 1959 until his death five years later, following a bad landing

  • Hideyuki Katsumata: USO de HONTOU

    In Dundee, a city known for its video game and comic book heritage, cult artist Hideyuki Katsumata is given his first UK exhibition, drawing crowds with his psychedelic surrealism and intriguing style

  • Jon Rafman

    The artist draws us into his virtual world with playful installations and video works, as he leads us through his disturbing and gripping interpretations of internet culture

  • Frank Stella: A Retrospective

    As Stella is the first living artist to be shown at the Whitney Museum’s new downtown space, the exhibition is by definition a mission statement

  • Giacometti: Pure Presence

    Step into Giacometti’s world of timeless souls rendered in paint and bronze at the National Portrait Gallery’s latest blockbuster exhibition