Category: Articles

  • Zarina: Descending Darkness

    In her works on paper and installations, the artist Zarina, who left her birthplace in India more than 50 years ago, explores the idea of home while living elsewhere

  • Gretchen Bender

    In a mesmerising and disquieting exhibition, Tate Liverpool showcases the prophetic work of video artist Gretchen Bender, who railed against the rise of consumerism and the political appropriation of mass media

  • Fabrizio Poltronieri: Iconic Theogonies – The presentation of Computational Gods

    The 20 prints in this show are a product of pure chance, says Fabrizio Poltronieri, who as both artist and programmer, positions himself in the tradition of truthful and direct computational experimentation between man, code and computer

  • From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia

    Canadian artist Emily Carr, born near the end of the 19th century, recorded the relics and landscapes of the indigenous people of British Columbia. Through her work, this exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery provides a vividly illustrated history lesson

  • Frieze London 2014

    The 12th edition of Frieze London brought many changes. Yet while curators and exhibitors took creative risks, the Frieze formula continues to succeed in bringing the best galleries and artists to London each year

  • Ethereal

    This exhibition of contemporary art from South Asia displays an impressive range of materials and styles, traditional and modern, but stays within an all-embracing fold of the ethereal

  • Age of Wonderland

    One of the highlights of this year’s Dutch Design Week was Age of Wonderland, in which young artists and designers from across the world came to the Netherlands to develop their visions on social innovation and co-creation, and exchange ideas…

  • What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me

    One hundred years after Marcel Duchamp produced his first readymade, more than 50 artists, including Peter Blake, Michael Craig-Martin and Janet Laurence, show how he influenced their work

  • Cut to Swipe

    With works from the 1980s to the present that appropriate, and sometimes manipulate, images and sound from television, film, the internet and radio, MoMA’s Cut to Swipe explores the rapidly changing nature of visual culture across digital and social media

  • Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

    Egon Schiele’s controversial drawings, which peel back Vienna’s bourgeois façade to reveal a world of sex and death, go on display at the Courtauld Gallery for the UK’s first ever show dedicated to the Austrian artist’s radical work

  • VS Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life

    The works of the modernist Indian painter VS Gaitonde bring us to the world of abstraction, demonstrating the artist’s life-long dedication to art as a spiritual journey and a rigorous discipline practised through painting

  • Memling. A Flemish Renaissance

    For the first time, a Flemish Primitive shines in the capital of the Italian peninsula, as the Scuderie del Quirinale offers an unprecedented loan of paintings by Hans Memling, the favourite of the Italian community in Bruges

  • Rembrandt: The Late Works

    This winter’s blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery examines Rembrandt’s expressive and moving later work from the 1650s until his death in 1669

  • Versace at the V&A

    Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition that the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, has ever dedicated to one fashion designer. This massive retrospective will show Gianni Versace’s unique flair for fashion and his great quest for beauty…

  • Carsten Höller: LEBEN

    Carsten Höller’s show Leben allows visitors to do more than just view the exhibits. From staying overnight in his robotically operated bed to immersing themselves in a flotation tank, the artist invites them to engage all their senses

  • Steve McQueen: Ashes

    With his film Ashes, and an accompanying pair of sculptures, Steve McQueen highlights an uncomfortable truth about the untimely deaths of many young black men

  • The Nakeds

    Egon Schiele’s iconic drawings are a starting point for this extensive group show at Drawing Room, titled The Nakeds. The exhibition looks at the extent of Schiele’s influence on contemporary artists, while placing a finger on current issues of feminism,…

  • Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan

    Trajectories looks at printmaking from India and Pakistan and establishes a context for its development there within the broader scope of world art history

  • 5 x 5 (2014)

    Washington DC is hosting its second 5 x 5, a public arts festival that sees an extraordinary diversity of temporary artworks springing up all over the city. And, below, Lance Fung curator of Nonuments, one of the festival’s projects, talks…

  • Cubism: The Leonard A Lauder Collection

    This superbly sensitive installation of the four greats of Cubism – Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris – conveys the courage bordering on insanity that ended a centuries-old pictorial tradition

  • Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

    Robert Gober is perhaps best-known for his deceptively simple sculptures – in particular his sinks – but this large-scale survey of his work at MoMA, including drawings, print and photographs, draws us in to the intricacies of the artist’s storytelling

  • Store your art in an egg

    UOVO, a $70m state-of-the-art storage facility for high-end artwork, is to open in New York City next month. As well as providing a museum-quality environment, it will also act as a highly accessible archive

  • Panamarenko Universum

    In this retrospective of postwar artist and inventor Panamarenko, alias Henri van Herwegen, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen offers more than 40 works, accompanied by drawings, models and sketches

  • Fritz Wotruba – Homage to Michelangelo

    In a posthumous retrospective of the drawings and sculptures of Fritz Wotruba, the souls of the inanimate are evident as he revives our view of an earlier master