Category: Articles

  • Anish Kapoor in Berlin

    The Turner Prize-winner Anish Kapoor has a solo exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau building, in Berlin. The show comprises around 70 artworks, including sculptures, objects and installations from 1988 to the present – half the works on display are new and…

  • The Wisdom of Birds: Holding – King – Shimmen

  • Salvador Dalí reunited in Spain

    There is an artwork by Salvador Dalí in almost every modern art museum in the Western world and possibly in the Eastern world too. It has been said that he produced more than 1,500 paintings, in addition to thousands of…

  • Women artists from the Arabic region

    Cross-border. Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterranean Region brings together the work of 18 women whose art incorporates the repercussions of national and social conflicts in their countries. The selection of artworks focuses on the subject of borders, embracing…

  • Realism in grand proportions

    The hyper-realistic sculptor Ron Mueck has created three new commissions for inclusion in his solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Using his trademark disproportionately sized people, he has fashioned an unsettling street scene between two…

  • Keith Arnatt on display

    In Self-Burial (Television Interference Project) (1969), Keith Arnatt inserted into television programmes photographs that showed him gradually sinking into the ground. With this project and other interventions in mass media and public space, which Arnatt called “situations”, he became one…

  • Sebastião Salgado: Genesis

    Natural History Museum, London 11 April–8 September 2013

  • Ellen Gallagher: AxME

    Tate Modern, London 1 May–1 September 2013

  • Re-Found: Sara Beazley, Charlotte Hodes, Maria Noel

    Jaggedart, London 23 May-15 June, 2013

  • Affordable Art Fair

    Good international and local artworks at low prices is the motto of the annual Affordable Art Fair, which this year, for the first time, is taking place during the summer. More than 100 galleries will be represented, with thousands of…

  • Limitations on Despair

    Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima, Japan 20 April–21 July 2013

  • Flatlands

    David Batchelor, best known for incorporating the pure sensation of colours in the construction of sculptural installations, now has his first full-scale exhibition of drawings and paintings. Through his two-dimensional works, the development of an aesthetic investigation that is the…

  • Safety Pin Chic: Punk Invades the Met

    When punk music emerged in the mid 1970s, a vibrant, cheeky subculture grew to amplify the message in art, literature, film, and most visibly fashion. To this day, punk and its many variations make up a large slice of popular…

  • Pictures have no sound

    During an artistic residency in Brussels, the photographer Vicente de Mello was struck by the absence of voices and music, sounds that are omnipresent in the clamorous streets of Rio de Janeiro where he lives. To capture this quietness in…

  • Salvador Dalí reunited in Spain

    There is an artwork by Salvador Dalí in almost every modern art museum in the Western world and possibly in the Eastern world too. It has been said that he produced more than 1,500 paintings, in addition to thousands of…

  • The Hunter and the Factory

    The Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico’s largest private contemporary art collection with more than 2,600 works, is presenting The Hunter and the Factory, an exhibition highlighting the impact of urban development on the natural environment. The selection of work by artists such…

  • Michael Landy: Saints Alive

    Sunley Room, National Gallery, London 23 May–24 November 2013

  • Zachary Buehner: The Ascent

    Zachary Buehner has no reference to being a graffiti artist on his website, for obvious reasons (In the US and elsewhere, graffiti is considered a form of vandalism or destruction of private property and many graffiti artists have served time…

  • ICA commission Zhang Enli

    The ICA in London has announced its plan to commission Shanghai-based artist Zhang Enli (b1965) to transform the ICA theatre with a painting that will cover the floor and walls. A significant number of artists in China have become dissatisfied…

  • George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life

    The Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Art, London 16 March—9 June 2013

  • Inside the Ordinary-Fantastic World of a Pop Artist

    Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956–1969 Edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, Barbara Schröder, and Ann Temkin (Museum of Modern Art, 2013)

  • Frieze New York 2013

    Randall’s Island, Manhattan 10–13 May 2013

  • Godwin Bradbeer: Pentimenti

    James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 12 April–11 May 2013

  • Up Manhattan

    American architect Frank Gehry has at last made it to build in Manhattan, that Mecca for architects. Although on the embankment, close by the snarling six-lane highway there, and a sheaf of downmarket housing, this is every architect’s dream. Gehry’s…