Category: Articles

  • Table of Contents, a live installation

    Siobhan Davies is an award-winning British dancer and choreographer with a particular interest in the concept of how one might archive dance and other performance art. To welcome in the new year, she has collaborated with the ICA and five…

  • Looking for Legends, Gambling on Faith

    Wang Guangyi: Words and Thoughts 1985-2012 by Demetrio Paparoni. Published by Skira, 2013

  • Cartier: Le Style et l’Histoire

    Le Grand Palais, Paris 4 December 2013 – 16 February 2014

  • Down and Out but Well-Dressed

    While economic hardship and escalating political tensions in the 1930s made life difficult for people around the globe, the 1929 Wall Street crash and Hitler’s rise to power did not dampen the fashion industry. Edwardian stiffness and conventionality were cast…

  • Infinitely Fractured World

    Among the most interesting experiments into how images are replicated, rearranged and transmitted through time and space, thus fracturing and conflating visual experiences, Atlas: How to Carry the World on One’s Back, curated by French art historian and philosopher Georges…

  • Matisse: The Essence of Line, Selected Prints: 1900-1950

    Marlborough Fine Art, London 4 December 2013 – 11 January 2014

  • Painting for Stimulation: Guan Jingjing

    Today Art Museum, Beijing 13-19 December 2013

  • Back to the Streets

    Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown, painter Martin Wong made New York City’s Lower East Side his adopted home. From 1978 until his death in 1999, Wong also collected art and antiques, notably the world’s largest…

  • A Good Frame is Worth a Thousand Pictures

    Canadian experimental film-maker and former jazz musician Michael Snow (Wavelength, Corpus Callosum) has just turned 84, but his multidisciplinary explorations into the nature of perception remain energised and engaging, his inquiries into the limits of representation precise and discerning. In…

  • Vulnerability as an Art Form

    Falling, fallibility and shame are recurring themes in Andrea Büttner’s work, which explores the positive aspects of passivity and the role of receptivity in creating value and meaning. While appropriation is a primary method for her, for example using drawings…

  • O’Keeffe‘s Lakeside Idyll

    Beginning in 1918, Georgia O’Keeffe spent part of each year until the early 30s at photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s 36-acre family home located on the western shore of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains. Two years earlier, when these two 20th-century…

  • Rembrandt – Auerbach: Raw Truth

    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 12 December 2013 – 16 March 2014

  • Philippe Parreno: Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World

    It is an opportunity most artists would dream of – a carte blanche invitation to transform the magnificent space of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The French artist and film-maker Philippe Parreno (b1964) was given that dream job and…

  • The Scottish Colourists Series: JD Fergusson

    The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 7 December 2013 – 15 June 2014

  • Julio Le Parc: Light and Movement

    Le Parc Lumière – Kinetic works by Julio Le Parc Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro 12 October 2013 – 23 February 2014

  • Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913-1963

    Ben Uri Museum and Gallery, London 31 October 2013 – 2 March 2014

  • Thomas Bayrle: All-in-One

    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 29 November 2013 – 23 February 2014

  • Alice Aycock: Paper Chase

    Architecturally inspired sculptor Alice Aycock says she hoped to capture the “energy of thought and ideas colliding and being transmitted outward” in her series Paper Chase Park Avenue, consisting of seven painted aluminium and fibreglass sculptures recalling wind currents, whirlpools…

  • When Culture Met Industry

    Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2013 Shenzhen, China 6 December 2013 – 28 February 2014

  • Art Basel Miami Beach – 2013: the lowdown

    For those of you who couldn’t make it, Jill Spalding has the inside information. Who was there – from artists and dealers to pop stars – what was hot and what was not, and what everyone was talking about.

  • Sarah Sze

    The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia 13 December 2013 – 6 April 2014

  • Salla Tykkä: The Palace

    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 22 November 2013 – 2 March 2014

  • Turner and the Sea

    National Maritime Museum, London 22 November 2013 – 21 April 2014

  • Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art

    Founded on the premise that all of humanity is alike, the British Museum seeks to evidence this in its exhibition programme, comparing and contrasting customs and ways of life from myriad global cultures, highlighting their shared seed. What varies is…