Category: Articles
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An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition
This whimsical interactive exhibition from the Wellcome Collection, with its weird and wonderful objects, guides us through an alphabetical history of medicine, says Kate Tiernan
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Gego: Line as Object
German-born artist Gego once claimed that sculpture was never what she did, but the Henry Moore Institute is absolutely right in putting on her first UK exhibition, says Anna McNay
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Where Were You?
Lisson Gallery continues its minimalist aesthetic with the work of nine artists, five of whom have never shown before in the UK. Kate Tiernan went to view it
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Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets
Louise Bourgeois is best known for her spider sculptures, including Maman for Tate Modern. This exhibition of her later works is akin to a self-portrait, a web of contradictions and ambiguities, says Anna McNay
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NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial
Jake Yuzna, director of public programmes at the Museum of Arts and Design, talks to Cindi di Marzo about the wildly diverse entries selected from the city’s creative communities for the museum’s first biennial
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Rashid Johnson: Magic Numbers
Rashid Johnson talks about his show Magic Numbers at the George Economou Collection in Athens, his use of shea butter, black soap and wax and how Afrocentrism has informed his work
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Isa Genzken: Botanical Garden
The beautiful surroundings of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden provide the backdrop for German artist Isa Genzken’s humorous, disturbing and powerful work from the past decade, including photographs, collages and, most arresting of all, mannequins.
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Susan Hiller: Resounding
Susan Hiller’s exploration of anthropology and psychoanalysis sees her collecting, cataloguing, restaging and reforming cultural artefacts. Her work provides a fascinating insight into the mind and memory, says Christiana Spens
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Here and Elsewhere
New Museum, New York 16 July – 28 September 2014
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Sapporo International Art Festival 2014
Sapporo, Japan 19 July – 28 September 2014
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Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art
Henry Moore Foundation 1 May – 26 October 2014
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I Must First Apologise …
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Villa Arson, Nice 6 July – 13 October 2014
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Peter Hujar
Maureen Paley Gallery, London 19 July – 24 August 2014
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Art and politics/art or politics: the political quandary of Manifesta 10
Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 28 June – 31 October 2014
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Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
Royal Academy of Arts, Sackler Wing, London 5 July – 28 September 2014
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The Space Where I Am
Blain Southern, London 17 July – 27 September 2014
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Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War
Imperial War Museum, London 19 July 2014 – 8 March 2015
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Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
National Portrait Gallery, London 10 July – 26 October 2014
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The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21st-Century Art
Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 2014
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Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden
Revisioning Paradise in a Fallen World Interview with curator Jennifer Scanlan
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Dreams or reality? Contemporary art in Moscow, summer 2014
A Time for Dreams: Fourth Moscow International Biennale for Young Art The Museum of Moscow 26 June – 10 August 2014
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Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
Burlington Gardens, The Royal Academy 26 June – 19 October 2014
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The Berlin Art Prize 2014
This is the second edition of the Berlin Art Prize, which was launched last year. The prize, which is set to continue annually, is unique in Berlin as the only award of its kind to support contemporary artists with exposure…
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Kelly Richardson – Haunted
Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland 24 May – 18 July 2014
