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...
The works here riff on the interplay between text and images, between the tangible and the conceptua...
Lauren Halsey’s multicolour, candyfloss, shout-out vision of a universe is an image of what it is ...
Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spi...
Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What a...
Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the...
Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being ...
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpt...
Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays...
Karolina Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradi...
Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, t...
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabula...
A well-sized survey distils the Congolese artist Sammy Baloji’s research-heavy practice, which dra...
Anna Perach – interview: ‘I am always searching for that magic ingredi...
Anna Perach talks about why she is more like Sergei Diaghilev than Taylor Swift, how she explains th...
A Different Impressionism: International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler
With rarely shown works by famous artists, this exhibition demonstrates how new printing techniques ...
Ephemeral installations incorporate melting candles, felled trees, ageing fruit and decomposing flow...
A long overdue London retrospective of the pioneering, prescient American artist is not for the fain...
Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat
Installed by Emma McNally over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a mani...
Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land
From chamberpots paired with Georgian silver to the reimagining of the story of Jacob and Esau, Soph...
This stripped-back exhibition, with just three drawings and six hand-built vessels, allows the stark...
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998
The Barbican takes us on a fascinating ride through two and a half decades of Indian art, teasing ou...
PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Five years in the planning, this festival of art, spanning the West Coast from Santa Barbara to San ...
Outdoor sculptures by nine female artists are on display in this show, but it’s hard not to feel t...
A majestic exhibition at the national museum of the Netherlands offers a refreshing take on ancient ...
Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel
This retrospective of Maurice de Vlaminck is the first in nearly 100 years and gives an overview of ...
Japanese artist Kenji Ide fills the house of a Polish poet with his eloquent miniature sculptures. A...
Monet and London: Views of the Thames
Industrial pollution is imbued with celestial light in Monet’s extraordinarily atmospheric paintin...
Thomas Houseago: Night Sea Journey
You can feel the energy ricocheting between Thomas Houseago and his hulking, portentous figures as h...
Gabriella Boyd – interview: ‘I work through intuitive and formal probl...
Gabriella Boyd shares the experiences and educational journeys through which her layered and intimat...
A survey exhibition of the prize-winning Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist spotlights her intelligence and...
Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya
Rego, like Goya, whom she so much admired, has the power to unsettle and disconcert. This exhibition...
Alfred Kubin: The Aesthetics of Evil
This new exhibition sheds fresh light on the personal hell of artist Alfred Kubin whose nightmarish ...
This extensive exhibition of still life works from two major collections is full of clever visual pa...
The Uncanny: Sigmund Freud and Art
In works by Louise Bourgeois, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman, among others, this...