Category: Articles

  • Momentum 7

    Momentum, the Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, which was first held in 1998 to bring emerging Scandinavian artists together in one show, has this year paired two different exhibitions, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Dare 2 Love Yourself. The…

  • Cildo Meireles at Palacio de Velázquez

    Cildo Meireles, the artist whose art tackles ideological and economic systems as the foundation for ongoing critical interpretation, has a major exhibition at the Palacio de Velázquez. More than 100 works are on display in a range of media, from…

  • Art from the seabed

    Mysteries of the sea and unexplored areas hidden in the ocean depths have preoccupied creative minds throughout the ages. Nottingham Contemporary art centre has put together more than 150 artworks by contemporary and historic artists, demonstrating that fantastic stories about…

  • Bill Traylor

    Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

  • The origins on paper

    When art patron Peggy Guggenheim met Robert Motherwell in the 1940s, she encouraged the young artist to work with collage and also organised his first solo exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. This story is…

  • David Hockney video installation

    Critically acclaimed in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking and even stage design, David Hockney now presents his first venture into video art, The Jugglers, 18 digital videos synchronised and presented on large screens. Hockney’s video installation debut was unveiled…

  • David Whitaker Retrospective Part II: Waters of the Nile

    Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1 July – 31 August 2013

  • Visions of the Universe

    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London 7 June – 15 September 2013

  • Sturtevant: Leaps, Jumps and Bumps

    Serpentine Gallery, London 28 June – 26 August 2013

  • Stay of life in Venice

    Venice Biennale 1 June-24 November 2013

  • Experience the city in four dimensions through the lense of an artist at Beppu Onsen

    Located 1,200km west of Tokyo, the city of Beppu in Oita prefecture has, since the late-19th century, attracted tourists and intellectuals from across Japan with its abundant natural hot springs (with around 2,800 springs, it boasts the largest number in…

  • Revitalising an old art – Interview with Fabricio Lopez

    Fabricio Lopez – Várzea Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Rio de Janeiro 24 July–24 August 2013

  • Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s

    V&A, London 10 July 2013–16 February 2014

  • Chagall: Modern Master

    Tate Liverpool 8 June–6 October 2013

  • Picturing Derry

    City Factory Gallery, Derry 31 May–7 July 2013

  • Los Angeles takes Manhattan

    Drumroll please for space-and-light artists Robert Irwin and James Turrell, sculptor-ceramicist Ken Price, conceptual artist John Baldessari, music, installation and graphic artist Llyn Foulkes and bad-boy sculptor and video artist Paul McCarthy. (If you include Ed Ruscha, who is extensively…

  • With Great Force, Swiftly and Surely

    Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann with Jo Widoff Essays by Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau and David Lomas; and a conversation with Helmut Zander (Moderna Museet/Hatje Cantz, 2013)

  • Paul Delvaux

    Blain|Di Donna, London 18 June–17 July 2013

  • Outside In: 55th Venice Biennale

    In the alleyways of Venice, street vendors are touting a new product – a globule of goo, which when thrown at the pavement splatters into a seemingly irreconcilable fried egg shape, but over the course of five seconds, reforms itself…

  • Wilma Tabacco: Gilt Edge

    Langford120, North Melbourne, Australia 1 June–30 June 2013

  • Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 18 June–8 September 2013

  • Nicholas Rena: The Harmony of the Year

    Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge 5 June–29 June 2013 Monumental vessels by Nicholas Rena refer to the respective liturgical and domestic roles played by ceramic jugs or vases throughout history.

  • Global Clarion Call: Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

    Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia until 21 July 2013

  • Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures

    Blain Southern, London 5 June­–27 July 2013