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Whitney Biennial 2019

Edition 2019 looks great, goes wide and speaks loudly, but is it off mission? Lost in this bi-coastal perceived zeitgeist of identity politics is an unbiased survey of art-making with no agenda but the deep need to make it, and of the artists working in America’s backwaters

Works by Ragen Moss, installation view, Whitney Biennial 2019. Photo: Jill Spalding.

Casey Reas – interview: ‘There is an increased understanding that software is central to our lives’

Reas is known as the man who helped to create the open-source programming language Processing and brought coding within the grasp of visual artists. Here, he talks about how his work has changed over the course of his career and gives his views on the future of creativity and computers.

Imaginary Cities

The digital artist Michael Takeo Magruder transforms urban maps from the British Library into data-driven artworks.

Nye Thompson: CKRBT, installation view, Watermans Art Centre, London, 2019. Photo: Geoff Titley.

Nye Thompson – interview: ‘The bots are actually the primary audience for the show’

In her project The Seeker, a system of machines looking at images on screen, analysing them and whispering to one other, we humans are merely peripheral intrusions, says Thompson. It’s scary, but exciting.

Robert Mapplethorpe. Self Portrait, 1988. Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper, 57.7 x 48.1 cm. ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

Artist Rooms: Self Evidence – Photographs by Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe

In their intimate and groundbreaking portraits, Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe dared to show the diversity of identity and their struggle to exist on their own terms.

Dale Chihuly. Neodymium Reeds and Turquoise Marlins, blown glass, (date not specified). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London 2019. Photo: Anna McNay.

Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on Nature

As an artist who seeks to create works that appear as if they came from nature, placing interventions throughout such a beautiful botanic garden, Dale Chihuly succeeds in mirroring and augmenting its pre-existing splendour.

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Aliza Nisenbaum, London Underground: Brixton Station and Victoria Line Staff, 2019. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Photo: Angus Mill.

Aliza Nisenbaum – interview: ‘I was torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter’

The Mexican-born, New York-based artist talks about her first UK public commission, a mural at Brixton underground station, which offers an intimate portrayal of Transport for London staff as part of the Art on the Underground series.

Irina Nakhova, Kiss, 2017. Diptych. Oil on canvas. Collection of the artist. Photo: Natasha Kurchanova © 2019 Irina Nakhova.

Irina Nakhova – interview: ‘I want my works to provoke curiosity’

The Russian artist talks about her latest exhibition, Museum on the Edge, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and explains why she sees art not as a profession, but rather as her way of being.

Tadao Ando – Emaki Drawings

At this French sculpture park, whose landscape is dotted with his structures, the Japanese architect has designed, in his inimitable style, a new pavilion to exhibit drawings of 10 or so of his schemes.

Wong Ping, installation view, Golden Shower, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Courtesy of the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong / Shanghai.

Wong Ping: Golden Shower

At Kunsthalle Basel, Hong Kong-born animator Wong Ping creates a seductive physical world for his grotesque and sexually charged animations with installation and sculptures.

Henry Moore, Reclining Male Nude, c1922. Drawing. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. © The Henry Moore Foundation. Photo: Michel Muller.

Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing

Although Henry Moore is best known as a sculptor, drawing was critical to his artistic practice. This exhibition is the largest of Moore’s drawings in more than 40 years.

Orson Welles: the graphic artist

A film and a book on Welles’s artwork provide another lens through which to observe one of cinema’s most fascinating protagonists.

Lawrence Lek, AIDOL, 2019. HD CGI Video, 84 min. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.

Lawrence Lek – interview: ‘AI could become the ultimate content creation mechanism. It could also signal the death of the author’

Lek talks about artificial intelligence taking over from human creativity, and AIDOL, his feature-length film on the subject, now showing at Sadie Coles, London.

Joanna Piotrowska. Untitled, 2015. Originally commissioned through the Jerwood and Photoworks Awards 2015. Courtesy Southard Reid.

Joanna Piotrowska: All Our False Devices

In this installation at Tate Britain, Piotrowska’s black-and-white photos and 16mm films of intimate, airless interiors expose the latent erotics of the home.

The Weston, Yorkshire Sculpture Park designed by Feilden Fowles. Photo: Peter Cook.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens Weston visitor centre

A visitor pavilion by Feilden Fowles opens up an overlooked area of the 500-acre sculpture park. The Weston responds to its setting with a sensitive design - part sculpture, part architecture - utterly in tune with the landscape.

Born to Kill helmet, original prop from the film Full Metal Jacket. Photo: Ed Reeve, courtesy of the Design Museum.

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition

This show takes us through the ephemera of Kubrick’s films – from female mannequins and a giant shiny white penis from A Clockwork Orange to a letter to the director from the woman who played Lolita – but is it inspiring, or simply sordid?.

Jonathan Baldock, Mask LVI, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre.

Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime

Baldock looks as if he is having fun, pulling faces in mud and decorating them in glaze, and the mood is infectious. He seems less interested in the details of cultural history than in producing the aesthetic of the ruin from pick’n’mix sources.

Perilous Bodies

The 19 artists in this exhibition use photography, video, installation, sculpture and painting in a timely reminder of the injustices faced by oppressed people across the world.

Oscar Murillo: Violent Amnesia

Spread across the various spaces of Kettle’s Yard, Murillo’s works address the recurrent theme of the movement of people across borders and human labour in a global economy.

Allan Sekula, Black Tide/Marea negra, 2002-03. 20 colour photographs in 10 frames, text. Copyright Allan Sekula. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Paris and London.

Allan Sekula: Photography, A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium

A career-spanning presentation of the late photographer and theorist shows an artist redefining the capabilities of his medium.

Anne Imhof: Sex

Spending four hours at Imhof’s live works is like Waiting for Godot, for the slacker generation. The audience turns out to be the most fascinating element of the exhibition.

Frieze New York 2019

This year’s fair demonstrated a more open-ended approach than usual, exhibiting and promoting diverse art-making practices. By devoting attention to new trends, as well as to forgotten and little-known artists, the organisers created a well-balanced and engaging display.

Victor Wong and A.I. Gemini. Image courtesy of 3812 London Gallery.

Victor Wong – interview: ‘The human is inspired by the machine and the machine is modified by the human’

Artist-inventor Victor Wong talks about his robot artist AI Gemini, how he feels about his invention and how it might develop in the future.

Jack Whitten. Apps for Obama, 2011. Acrylic on hollow core door, 213.4 x 231.1 cm. Private collection, courtesy Zeno X Gallery. © Jack Whitten, courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Photo: John Berens.

Jack Whitten: Jack’s Jacks

Embellished with sparkling gemstones and richly coloured tiles, Whitten’s memorial paintings on show here are not only extraordinarily beautiful, but communicate so much about the artists and musicians to whom they are dedicated.

Portrait of Angelica Mesiti in her exhibition ASSEMBLY, 2019. Commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts on the occasion of the 58th International Art
Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia and Galerie Allen, Paris. Photography: Zan Wimberley.

Angelica Mesiti – interview: ‘I really want to maintain ambiguity and possibility in my work’

Representing the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Angelica Mesiti is showing a multiscreen video installation entitled Assembly, which uses music to explore the power and complexities of collectivity.

Antonello da Messina

A must-see exhibition at Milan’s Palazzo Reale unites two-thirds of the surviving paintings by Sicily’s greatest Renaissance painter.

Jonathan Monk: Exhibit Model Four – plus invited guests

This exhibition comprises a wallpaper of Monk’s photographs from the past 20 years, along with artworks from a sprawling list of his ‘invited guests’.

Sean Scully. Robe Magdalena, 2017. Oil on aluminium, 215.9 × 190.5 cm. Private collection. © Sean Scully. Photo: courtesy the artist.

Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery

In this exhibition of more than 30 of Scully’s paintings, prints and pastels, JMW Turner’s The Evening Star provides the jumping-off point for the artist’s works.

Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People

This comprehensive exhibition guides us through the creative world of this Pritzker Prize-winning architect, whose vision and inventiveness have empowered the people who use his buildings.

Laura Buckley – interview: ‘I enjoy watching the people in the work as much as the work itself’

Buckley talks about her sculpture and video Fata Morgana, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery, using her work as a catharsis for difficult times – and the pros and cons of the Instagram moment.

Emma Kunz at her working table, Waldstatt, 1958. Photo copyright Emma Kunz Centrum.

Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou

Kunz was a spiritual healer who saw her drawings – all done with crayons and pencil on graph paper and some aided by divination with a pendulum – as part of her research-led practice.

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