Category: Articles

  • Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists

    Tate Britain, London 12 November 2013 – 9 February 2014

  • Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

  • Our voice as protagonist – a meeting with Tania Bruguera

    Bruguera, who was born in Cuba in 1968, now divides her time between New York and Havana. Her work came to prominence following her series Homenaje a Ana Mendieta, recreations of body performances and objects in tribute to her compatriot.…

  • Permission Granted Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International

    Tania Bruguera: Immigrant Movement International Part of the series The Tanks: live programme 2012

  • Patricia Johanson: The World as a Work of Art

    Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands 29 September 2013 – 26 January 2014

  • Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris

    The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy, London 26 October 2013 – 26 January 2014

  • Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making, 1789 – 2013

    Tate Liverpool 8 November 2013 – 2 February 2014

  • Paul Klee: Making Visible

    Tate Modern, London 16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014

  • Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 26 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

  • Kentridge: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

    William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 22 October 2013 – 11 May 2014

  • Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank

    White Cube Bermondsey, London 16 October – 22 December 2013

  • An American in London: Whistler and the Thames

    Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 16 October 2013 – 12 January 2014

  • Containers for the human condition

    The 24 artists selected for Body & Soul: New International Ceramics are using clay – traditionally made into vessels and decorative objects – to sculpt powerful responses to social injustices, environmental devastation and the day-to-day pain of living in an…

  • Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences

    Situated in Regent’s Park, Frieze London hosted more than 150 exhibitors in an airily minimal pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke. A short stroll away, at Gloucester Green, its sister fair, Frieze Masters, presented “130 of the world’s leading galleries” in…

  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery

    The Serpentine Gallery has opened a second space in Kensington Gardens, London. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery, made possible by a donation from the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, is the capital’s new art fanatics’ destination. The original, early 19th-century…

  • The Modern City

    Fernand Léger’s masterpiece The City (1919), in which the French painter represents, with vibrant colours, the chaos and movement of the urban environment, is the starting point of Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. As a man who saw with…

  • Once Upon a Time

    The Van Abbemuseum, established in 1936 and one of the first public collections devoted to contemporary art in Europe, has changed all its permanent display and will disclose its new exhibition, Once Upon a Time … The Collection Now, to…

  • AGORA

    The word “Agora”, which in Ancient Greece referred to a public open space where people could gather to debate, is the title of the fourth Athens Biennial (AB4). The international exhibition brings together more than 70 artists to present their…

  • A frightening portrait of Cindy Sherman

    Always working with photography, the American artist Cindy Sherman is also the sitter in most of her images. These are no self-portraits, though, because she creates characters and narratives depicting diverse stereotypes found in contemporary society. Sometimes, she also recreates…

  • From painting to sculpture

    An exponent of what is called “matter painting”, the Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, who died last year, developed a particular style of artwork with thick layers of paint and a distinctive use of textures and materials that he applied to…

  • A terrain of extended meanings

    Unstable Territory – Borders and Identity in Contemporary Art is a new group show at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina in Florence that urges the visitors to think about a hot topic in politics and art – territory. To…

  • Site-specific drawings

    The American artist Richard Serra is renowned for raising awareness of the concept of site-specific artwork. He works with industrial materials and steel to build large-scale sculptures that are installed in public spaces or galleries. This year, Serra presents another…

  • 7th Pinta Art Fair

    Pinta New York will this year take place at a new venue, 82MERCER, a loft-style building in the heart of Soho. PINTA NY will present 60 international exhibitors from 20 countries, showcasing more than 160 modern and contemporary artists from…

  • Wang Keping

    Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 17 October – 29 November 2013