The 20 best art books of 2020

With many galleries and museums shut, art books have become more important than ever. Here are 20 of...

Emma Nicolson of Inverleith House: ‘Art institutions can highlight the d...

Emma Nicolson, the head of creative programmes at Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinb...

Jim Dine – interview: ‘I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I...

Artist Jim Dine talks about his easily recognisable paintings, into which he embeds tools and incorp...

Arctic: Culture and Climate

The British Museum’s latest exhibition explores the cultures of the Arctic and the many ingenious ...

Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors

Connections both cosmic and corporeal are woven throughout Haegue Yang’s sculptures, collages and ...

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020

This year, the 25th anniversary of the prize, the exhibition contains 71 works, many coloured by the...

Robert Smithson: Hypothetical Islands

With works largely drawn from the collection of his wife, Nancy Holt, Smithson’s hypothetical isla...

Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities

Drawing on archival material, this fascinating exhibition looks at the Whitechapel Gallery’s pione...

Art by Remote: Art Basel Miami Beach

With the Miami Beach Convention Center turned into a Covid-testing site, taking ABMB meta, Miami’s...

Susie MacMurray – interview: ‘A feather is never just a feather, and a...

Susie MacMurray talks about how she uses art to raise questions rather than make statements, and abo...

Sin

A compact, but rich exhibition at the National Gallery finds moral transgression at the core of west...

Lucy McKenzie: Prime Suspect

A mid-career survey of the Brussels-based Scottish artist conceals big questions in illusionistic ma...

Emily Jacir – interview: ‘I wanted the locals to show me what was impo...

The artist talks about her stone sculpture, Pietrapertosa, created as part of the Gardentopia projec...

Thao Nguyen Phan: Becoming Alluvium

Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan weaves moving image, lacquer work and watercolour paintings on si...

London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde

From a naked man flinging himself into a giant jelly to a 24-hour piano recital to John Lennon and Y...

Dutch Design Week

It is known as a showcase for critical, speculative and multidisciplinary design projects that make ...

Alfred Wallis Rediscovered

This show explores the works of the fisherman-turned-artist who painted the souls of boats and inspi...

Eleanor Bartlett – interview: ‘When you see a great lump of tar, it’...

Eleanor Bartlett talks about why she favours working with bitumen, metal paint and wax and why colou...

Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict

The British Kenyan painter’s first institutional show demonstrates his remarkable development, whi...

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman’s work explores language and perception in a manner that is at times irksome or troub...

Ali Kazim – interview: ‘When I picked up a pottery shard and it had so...

The artist talks about looking to ancient civilisations for inspiration, why he doesn’t like worki...

Bochner Boetti Fontana

This lush, even glamorous exhibition is curated by Mel Bochner and comprises 18 works by himself, Al...

Arik Levy and Zoé Ouvrier – interview: ‘We definitely influence each ...

Ahead of their first joint exhibition, Beyond Nature, the artists talk about their relationship to n...

Nicole Eisenman: Where I Was, It Shall Be

Nicole Eisenman’s first solo UK presentation for Hauser & Wirth Somerset showcases her large sculp...