Category: Articles

  • Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar

    A dedicated feminist who came of age in the tumult of the 1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson was born in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now based in New York and San Francisco. She is an influential new media and…

  • Serge Poliakoff: Silent Paintings

    Through his devoted exploration of abstraction, Russian modernist Serge Poliakoff not only established himself as one of the most accomplished painters of his generation, but also as a master of his own style

  • William S Burroughs: Can you all hear me?

    The October Gallery’s exhibition explores the legacy of novelist and artist William S Burroughs, and shows work by those he influenced, including Brion Gysin, Liliane Lijn, Genesis P-Orridge

  • Refiguring the 50s

    The exhibition at Ben Uri brings together five postwar artists, Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman and LS Lowry, all of whom shared a common interest in working people and the underlying human condition

  • Samara Scott: Harvest

    Using edible and chemical substances from hair gel to toothpaste to avocado skins and potatoes, Samara Scott explores the processes of human consumption and waste through the creation of a series of dense landscapes lit by a warm, coloured light

  • Concentric circles: Wojciech Fangor and Peter Sedgely

    First published in Studio International, Vol 171 No 878, June 1966

  • A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution

    From the “votes for women” campaigns of the early 20th century to anti-apartheid protests in the 1960s and more recent anti-war movements, this exhibition of posters provides a fascinating insight into a modern history of dissent and political change

  • Caragh Thuring

    In her largest exhibition to date, British artist Caragh Thuring presents a diverse series of abstract paintings that elicit a multitude of questions, but refuse to provide answers

  • Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection

    This exhibition, which revolves around Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, offers works of an intimacy, scale and aesthetic that is utterly personal while also of museum calibre. The Picassos alone are worth the trip

  • Nova at Art Basel Miami Beach

    The Nova section of Art Basel Miami Beach gave artists a chance to show their latest works, from drawing, painting and sculpture to installation and video, and included work from last year’s Turner-prize winner Laure Prouvost

  • Jim Campbell: Indirect Imaging

    American artist Jim Campbell uses LED technology for his light installations in this stunning exploration of time, light and space at Dundee Contemporary Arts

  • Refraction: The Image of Sense

    The internet and new technology have changed visual culture, and Peter Amdam, curator of Blain Southern’s latest show, has gathered a group of young artists to explore how art now operates, where the interface of human and non-human elements of…

  • Reiner Ruthenbeck

    In this major retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, the works of Reiner Ruthenbeck – in particular, his overturned furniture – have raised that old question, But is it art? Happily, the answer is yes.

  • Art Basel Miami Beach: 14th Edition

    This year’s fair was all about art as entertainment – and it didn’t disappoint. With more than 250 galleries, sales ranging up to $4.5m for a Warhol, and celebrity buyers such as P Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio, it was clear…

  • Stan Douglas

    Through photographs, film and video art, in his exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Canadian artist Stan Douglas blurs the borders between truth and fiction, between what we see and what we think we see

  • Giovanni Battista Moroni

    In this major exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni, the Royal Academy is showing more than 40 works, from his portraits to his lesser-known religious paintings

  • Gego and Gerd Leufert: a dialogue

    This exhibition of works by Gertrude Goldschmidt – Gego – and Gerd Leufert demonstrates their romance both with line and drawing and with one another

  • Peder Balke

    Peder Balke is a little known 19th-century Norwegian artist. The National Gallery and Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, hope to change that, but is he really a forgotten great?

  • Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power

    Although her products have been unavailable in the US for decades, Helena Rubinstein – “Empress of Beauty”, as Jean Cocteau called her – is being celebrated by the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibit focuses on the link she…

  • Constable: The Making of a Master

    John Constable is renowned for his idyllic images of the English countryside. But as a new exhibition at the V&A shows, he didn’t just sketch picturesque scenes of the Stour Valley, but drew inspiration from Europe’s Old Masters as he…

  • Prospect.3: Notes for Now

    New Orleans plays host to 58 artists from around the world – including Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Agus Suwage and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as many less familiar names – for Prospect.3, whose dominant theme is race and identity

  • The British Line: Group Show

    What defines the British national character? The British Line, an exhibition at the Robin Katz gallery of monochrome drawings by some of the greatest British artists from the 20th century to today, hopes to answer that question

  • Pieter Vermeersch

    In his latest solo exhibition, Belgian artist Pieter Vermeersch casts a minimal eye over the fragmentation of time and space, bringing serenity through simplicity

  • Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography

    This retrospective of the work of American photographer and film-maker Paul Strand spans six decades of his career, including his candid street portraits, films and artist’s books