Category: Articles

  • Jim Shaw: The End is Here

    This first comprehensive retrospective of Jim Shaw to be held in New York, which includes his own work and his collection of modern-day Americana, verges between the deeply serious and the darkly comedic

  • Miranda Donovan: Metaphors for Mankind

    Hidden deep in subterranean Shoreditch, Miranda Donovan’s multi-layered works reflect the rawness and vulnerability of the contemporary human condition

  • Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting

    This major retrospective showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri, who took up painting after being sent to a prisoner of war camp during the second world war

  • Frieze Art Fair 2015

    Frieze London 2015 reveals buyers’ anxieties, a swell in the Asian market and an increased focus on live art

  • Goya: The Portraits

    Put aside notions of the tormented artist plagued by demons and haunted by nightmarish visions and meet Goya, the loyal friend and mischievous court painter

  • Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

    This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.

  • John Hoyland: Power Stations: Paintings 1964-1982

    Damien Hirst’s impressive new gallery opens with a sensitively curated show of one of Britain’s most renowned abstract artists

  • Stella Ioannou: interview

    Now in its fifth year, the public art exhibition Sculpture in the City shows contemporary art pieces around London’s Square Mile. The co-director, architect and art manager Stella Ioannou talks about the exhibition

  • The Fabric of India

    Every square inch of fabric in this exhibition has a story to tell, from a sweat-stained talismanic shirt to an opulent Mughal-style tent. The closer you look the more you will see

  • The World Goes Pop

    In Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, curators Jessica Morgan and Flavia Frigeri make an ambitious attempt to widen the geographical boundaries of the pop art movement of the 1960s and 70s

  • Phyllida Barlow: Set

    Barlow’s art is genuinely challenging. The stacks of timber and cemented detritus spattered with paint, frozen between creation and destruction, fulfil her aim of turning the gallery, and our experience of it, upside down

  • Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity

    Once dubbed ‘the High Priestess of Polka Dots, pioneer of naked happenings … smashing to smithereens the old social morality’, Yayoi Kusama has had a long career that has included painting, sculpture, installation, fashion and performance.

  • The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

    This exhibition, which presents many canonical works from 1920s and 30s Russia from public and private collections in the west, makes clear that creativity, beauty and innovation can be put at the service of fear and repression

  • Shona Illingworth: ‘Art practice is deeply important in a changing world’

    The Danish-born artist Shona Illingworth, whose video and sound installations explore the mystery of memory, talks about her latest exhibition at FACT in Liverpool, UK, and her collaboration with psychologists in her artistic practice.

  • Antony Donaldson: ‘Painting is a singular thing’

    The artist talks about home visits from his tutors when he was at the Slade in the 1950s, being influenced by Nicolas de Staël and discussing pornography with the Beverly Hills sheriff’s department

  • Broad and Broader

    Eli and Edythe’s brilliantly realised dream of a palace for their art joins a developer’s brief to a philanthropist’s vision for downtown Los Angeles

  • Celts: Art and Identity

    The identity of the Celts might be as evasive as a will-o’-the-wisp, but as this wonderful exhibition shows, their art is as solid and evocative as it is beautiful

  • Jennifer Rubell: Not Alone

    American artist Jennifer Rubell explores motherhood through a series of participatory works. Looking to break the established rules of the gallery, she encourages viewers to hold a baby, eat eggs – and even take their clothes off in the gallery

  • The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium

    This group exhibition – curated by artist Luc Tuymans – brings together more than 40 works by 15 Belgian artists in an attempt to highlight the similarities and tensions between two different generations within Belgium

  • Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield

    In a project looking at how philanthropic giving to arts and culture can become a social norm in every 21st-century city, some of Europe’s leading private collectors are showing works – from Jake and Dinos Chapman to Fiona Tan to…

  • Bridget Riley: Learning From Seurat

    Through the works of Georges Seurat, Bridget Riley learned about colour. His The Bridge at Courbevoie provided ‘a true masterclass … the best tutorial I ever had’ and he has remained a touchstone for her

  • Lowry by the Sea

    This small gem of an exhibition comprising 17 pictures – oils on canvas and board; watercolour; felt tip and pencil drawings – showcases Lowry’s intense relationship with the ocean

  • Julie Sass: Be-Bop Your Visual Acts (Shared Space)

    Danish artist Julie Sass presents a cohesive body of new work as part of Copenhagen Arts Week that signals complex, painterly explorations in abstract minimalism

  • Jerusalem Season of Culture 2015

    This is a festival that involves talks, tours, performance and events rather than simply art objects, and it takes places in a place that has been a conflict zone for millennia. This year, to its credit, it tried to address…