Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013 opened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts with the customary fa...
Laure Prouvost wins Turner Prize 2013
The French-born film and installation artist Laure Prouvost (born Croix-Lille, 1978) has won the 29t...
Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones
Balincourt’s exhibition is titled - after one of the paintings in this show - Itinerant Ones....
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is now in its 11th year, and is as popular as it has ...
Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep
Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep occupies all of the spectacular spaces at Tate St Ives, a...
Dennis Oppenheim: Thought Collision Factories
The first thing that struck me as I walked into the main gallery area of the Henry Moore Institute i...
There are some loud voices vying for attention in this colourful celebration of the human figure. Br...
We are at the Lisson Gallery, London, to see the group exhibition Nostalgic for the Future, shown ea...
There are few things I find more disturbing than René Magritte’s paintings. Somber, eerie and mel...
‘Küssen Im Park’: The Serpentine Gallery Expands
On 28 September 2013, a new and separate space opened nearby the existing Serpentine Gallery in Kens...
Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections
Go to see it and experience what it feels like to be inside a halo: radiance untrammelled. I would n...
Crisis and Catharsis in Clay: an interview with Sana Musasama
Those who encounter Sana Musasama’s lovingly crafted wall sculptures in Body & Soul: New Internati...
Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter
One of the great strengths of Gray’s art, design and architecture was also her weakness; she defie...
Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists
Including the works of both a Turner prize winner and a nominee, Painting Now brings together five c...
The Queens Museum, New York reopens
The Queens Museum has a new name and a new life. Formerly the Queens Museum of Art, it reopened its ...
Interview with John Mellencamp
The celebrated rock musician John Mellencamp is also a painter of note, his work the subject of a su...
Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress
Within the myriad forms of political art, it is possible to discern two primary strands. The first i...
Permission Granted Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International
In January 2008, the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera puzzled visitors to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern...
Our voice as protagonist – a meeting with Tania Bruguera
The chatter of a roomful of museum workers turned to silence the minute Tania Bruguera walked into t...
Patricia Johanson: The World as a Work of Art
The landscape artist and architect Patricia Johanson (b1940) occupies a unique position in her chose...
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making, 1789 - 2013
On a single floor of Tate Liverpool, 200 years of art influenced by the Left is exhibited: a big ide...
Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris
In the opinion of the writer Charles Baudelaire, the nineteenth-century French caricaturist and pain...
Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern is an outstanding exhibition of 130 works by one of the mas...
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900
The trouble with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition Chinese Masterpieces: 700-1900 is tha...
Kentridge: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?
William Kentridge’s new installation, The Refusal of Time, bewilders this unprepared viewer: I fin...
Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank
Very rarely does a show of new work by a contemporary artist deliver on its promise more fully than ...
Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences
Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s leading commercial art fair and has drawn an international audience of...
Using a carefully balanced combination of PVA glue and acrylic paints – the precise measures of wh...
Ben Brown Fine Arts presents us with the first solo exhibition of Wang Keping in the UK. Considering...
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames
“Oh Fantin, I know so little – things do not go quickly!”, wrote James Abbott McNeill Whistler...