Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art
In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond...
Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat
Installed by Emma McNally over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a mani...
Flora Yukhnovich – interview: ‘I’m always looking at history through...
Where better to view the work of contemporary rococo-inspired painter Flora Yukhnovich than at the W...
Alongside work by Joseph Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no bo...
This year’s festival urges us to believe that, collectively, we can build a better future. And whi...
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Soul Station
The Berlin techno club provides the perfect setting for a pioneering game-making artist whose works ...
Bringing together works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this is the first institutional exhibition in E...
Dion Kitson: Rue Britannia* and Silver Lining**
From pool cues resembling mops to a re-creation of a landfill pile, Kitson’s witty sculptures at t...
Belgian artist Francis Alÿs’s thoughtful new exhibition transforms the Barbican into a bustling g...
Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale
A prolific portrait painter from the 17th century, Mary Beale left a far-reaching legacy and espouse...
Take one exceptional work and tease out various strands to create a small but exemplary exhibition ...
Dominique White – interview: ‘I do everything the wrong way’
Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, Dominique White, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize f...
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker
He was a young Black artist who railed against racism and sickness, both personal and in society. Th...
Emma Stibbon – interview: 'We need the science, the data, but art can re...
Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as th...
Expansive Change: Distortion as Dialogue in Modern & Contemporary Art
Among a flotilla of known artists, curator Santiago Rumney-Guggenheim has launched a few lesser-know...
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider
A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreem...
Francis Picabia: Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950
A career-spanning exhibition of drawings and watercolours shows the elusive modernist Francis Picabi...
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 histor...
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his sub...
This major new show pays homage to Kngwarray, an Indigenous Australian who, though she only began pa...
Emilie L Gossiaux: Other-Worlding
Emilie L Gossiaux lost her sight in an accident 13 years ago. This show reads like a lover letter to...
Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand
An exhibition of oil paintings by Don Van Vliet, the artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart, has...
A retrospective of the arte povera intellectual is not for the fainthearted. But it rewards persever...
In the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime’s first major European museum exhibition, labour-intensive work...
Eight rooms filled with sumptuous embroidery and fine-spun lace worn by sitters with laughing, gurni...
El Anatsui – interview: ‘My inspiration comes from things people have ...
As his huge installation begins at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month, El Anatsui talks about A...
Elisa Giardina Papa: Flock – She Preferred the Lineage of Goats and Ducks
In a series of new ceramic works, video and works on paper, Elisa Giardina Papa explores the myths a...
Edvard Munch: Magic of the North and Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth
Two major exhibitions celebrate Munch’s works this autumn. One draws attention to his time in Berl...
Farah Al Qasimi: Abort, Retry, Fail
In her first solo UK show, Al Qasimi’s photographs and video work respond to our escapist tendenci...
Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell: Shift. Breathe. Expand. Painting in S...
This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, ...