Category: Articles

  • Ken Kiff: The Hill of Dreams

    In the Hill of Dreams, which includes encaustic paintings, monotypes, lithographs, etchings, woodcut and monoprint, Ken Kiff is revealed as an artist’s artist, creating images to draw the viewer in, as if to partake in his adventure

  • Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album

    Nightmarish visions and demonic passions fill the pages of Goya’s late drawings. But as this exhibition at the Courtauld illustrates, there is also sadness and humour among the withered limbs and toothless old women that haunt these fascinating albums

  • The Sultan’s World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art

    East meets west in this dazzling show, which focuses on the attraction the Ottoman empire held for western artists for more than two centuries. This jewel of an exhibition brings together art and valuable objects rarely seen in such abundance

  • Marc Chagall: A Retrospective (1908-1985)

    The long career of a colourful chameleon, Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, is shown off in more than 200 works on loan from over 20 collections

  • Armory Week 2015

    The thousands who braved the snow for this year’s Armory found no big surprises. Rather, there were thoughtful works of painting, sculpture and photography and effortful installations. And the decision to pare down to 199 dealers and sacrifice a few…

  • Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5 + 5

    In celebration of the year-long exhibition Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral, a night of poetry by some of today’s most renowned poets from the US and China took place on the evening of 25 February 2015 at the Cathedral…

  • Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

    Sir Eduardo Paolozzi is considered to be one of the forerunners of British pop art. An exhibition of his vibrant and eccentric prints has opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which was an early supporter of his work

  • On Kawara: Silence

    The Guggenheim’s retrospective of On Kawara brings to the fore the great richness of the artist’s practice yet, despite the wealth of detail, you come to know so little about the man who painstakingly made these works

  • Good Figures: An exhibition of the female form depicted by 30 contemporary female artists

    Thirty contemporary female artists, ranging in age from 24 to 82, celebrate the enduring appeal of the female form in everything from photography to drawing, ceramics, film and sculpture

  • Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden

    Challenging and provocative, this vast retrospective at Tate Modern charts Marlene Dumas’s long career. From the very first room, it is clear that this South African-born artist is one of the most important painters working today

  • Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

    This latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is an illuminating tour de force that opens a window on Sargent’s world and the extraordinary people he called his friends

  • Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Rediscovered

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is celebrating the acquisition and installation of Thomas Hart Benton’s 10-panel mural cycle with an exhibition that includes numerous studies the artist prepared for the mural, as well as paintings, drawings and…

  • Drawing as the catalyst for contemporary printmaking in the UK

    We look at how printmaking has influenced the work of Arthur Watson, Paul Coldwell, Christopher Le Brun, Charlotte Hodes and Grayson Perry

  • Luc Tuymans: The Shore

    Luc Tuymans’s latest exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in London is the result of a diverse range of influences, but his characteristically bleached colours and eerie settings ensure that his paintings continue to unsettle and intrigue

  • Faces Then, Faces Now

    This double offering explores the concept of identity through portraits in two opposing media and ages – renaissance painting and modern photography

  • Danh Vō: Homosapiens

    The work of the Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vō explores colonialism and nationalism through artefacts and text. His current exhibition, Homosapiens, is a critical study of history and the human condition from the artist’s unique perspective

  • Motoi Yamamoto: Return to the Origin

    In Japan, salt is used to exorcise the bad spirits that are said to haunt the dead. With his installation of 120kg of salt at the Pola Museum Annex in Tokyo, artist Motoi Yamamoto instead uses the mineral as a…

  • Sonia Delaunay: Les Couleurs de l’Abstraction

    A key figure of early 20th-century Parisian avant garde, Sonia Delaunay has often been cast in a supporting role to her husband, modernist Robert Delaunay. A major European retrospective puts the record straight and shows her impact on the international…

  • David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979

    This exhibition of Swiss artist David Weiss looks at the years before he and Peter Fischli became a famous duo. A sense of childish whimsy pervades these formative works, done when he was immersed in Zurich’s bohemian counterculture

  • Mira Schendel: Monotypes

    Mira Schendel is regarded as one of the most significant South American artists of the 20th century, and this exhibition of her early monotypes provides a brief insight into both her experimental process and her continuous questioning of her own…

  • David Birkin, Mouths at the Invisible Event

    David Birkin makes socially and politically motivated art that is thought-provoking and challenging. In Mouths at the Invisible Event, his first public solo exhibition, the works form a dialogue around drones and surveillance post-9/11

  • Unseen

    The newly finished Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery showcases the incredible breadth of the Courtauld’s collection and promises many years of fascinating displays

  • Ron Mueck

    Australian sculptor Ron Mueck’s touring show has now been seen by more than a million visitors. What is it that draws people in such great numbers to view his reproductions of other human beings?

  • Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

    To measure the imprint that a century of abstract art has left on society, culture and politics, Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery collates artwork from every corner of the globe