Category: Articles

Derek Jarman: Pandemonium

In celebration of Derek Jarman’s life and work, the Cultural Institute at King’s College London is exhibiting Pandemonium, marking both the 20th anniversary of his death in February 1994 and what would have been his 72nd birthday on 31 January.
John Zinsser: Paintings and File Studies

John Zinsser’s engagement with the formal and aesthetic dimensions of American abstraction has become, over the years, a commitment to its enduring relevance and potential to expand the boundaries of painting practice. Zinsser has written about and championed other artists…
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video

Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York City 24 January – 14 May 2014
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined

Royal Academy of Arts (Main Galleries), London 25 January – 6 April 2014
Franz Ackermann: 9 x 9 x 9

White Cube, Bermondsey, London 22 January – 13 April 2014
Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner

Turner Contemporary, Margate 25 January – 11 May 2014
Who’s that Girl?

“Artists should live experimentally,” says 2012 Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, formerly known as “Spartacus”, after the Roman soldier who led a slave rebellion against the Roman republic.
For Art’s Own Sake

Bohemia may be a state of mind, but it found its most attractive enactment in fin de siècle Paris, inspired by Henry Murger’s 1851 classic Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
David Lynch – Small Stories

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris 15 January – 16 March 2014
The Stylish Fruits of an Intriguing Challenge

Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art American Folk Art Museum, New York City 21 January – 23 April 2014
Christian Bonnefoi

Le Forum, Ginza Maison Hermès, Tokyo 13 December 2013 – 28 February 2014
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China

In the mid-1980s and 90s, as China distanced itself from the policies of Mao Zedong, and his successors became more willing to engage with the outside world, Chinese contemporary art began to appear with increasing frequency in important international exhibitions.…
Darren Almond: To Leave a Light Impression

White Cube Bermondsey, South Galleries, London 22 January – 13 April 2014
Canan Tolon: Sidesteps

Parasol Unit, London 15 January – 16 March 2014
The Tao of Now

Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital The Museum of Arts and Design, New York 16 October 2013 – 1 June 2014
Hannah Höch

Whitechapel Gallery, London 15 January – 23 March 2014
Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty

Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty by Robert Maxwell. Published by Artifice Books on Architecture, 2013.
Project Space: Inverted House – Tina Gverović and Siniša Ilić

Tate Modern, London 22 November 2013 – 13 April 2014
Moving Pictures

Māori photographer John Miller won the 2003 Media Peace Prize Lifetime Award for his promotion of peace through his work. He describes himself as a “sympathetic observer”, but the power of his images indicates a reflective yet acute study of…
Celebrating Community

The Musée d’art contemporain (MACM) marks 50 years as one of Montreal’s major cultural institutions by joining forces with the city’s other great repository of art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) for this exhibition, offered to the public…
England’s lost architect: Cecil Ross Pinsent

An Infinity of Graces: Cecil Ross Pinsent, an English Architect in the Italian Landscape by Ethne Clarke. Published by WW Norton & Company, New York and London, 2013
Tracey Emin: 20 Years

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh July-September 2008
William Kentridge: Fortuna

William Kentridge: Fortuna, edited by Lilian Tone with commentary by William Kentridge. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2013
Mikhailov’s Russia: From Eden to Hell

Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City 23 November 2013 – 8 February 2014