• Virginia Verran. Photo courtesy of the Artist.

    Virginia Verran – interview

    Verran paints large atmospheric spaces filled with small, often cryptic, graphic details. She explains why she doesn’t see herself as an abstract artist, but desires to keep the viewer on their toes – or even on ‘metaphorical barbed wire’

  • What Remains

    Looking back and looking forward, this 10-artist exhibition, celebrating 40 years of the Women’s Art Collection, considers what has already changed and what still needs to

  • Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives

    Running the gamut from ardent to whimsical, Gladys Hynes is a character well worth recovering from the annals of history

  • John Gibbons – interview

    In his Basildon studio, sculptor John Gibbons talks about light, the Big Bang, the importance of openness and modelling Winston Churchill’s hands

  • The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens

    May the Force Be With You! Finally landed on Earth after a decade in the planning, untold hirings and firings, and endless revisions to the 100,000 square feet of show space, and more than 30 galleries holding more than 1,300…

  • Francisca Aninat – interview

    The Chilean artist talks about listening, stitching and her latest show, which combines photographs and works with thread

  • Pedro Cabrita Reis – interview

    The internationally acclaimed artist talks about his current show in Venice, XIV Steps, a cycle of 14 paintings inspired by the Stations of the Cross and why, despite not being religious, he was moved to paint them

  • Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter

    The first UK survey of the esteemed Polish sculptor twists and distorts architectural features into sombre monuments to lost eras

  • Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons

    Despite its darker undertones of climate change and capitalism, Clare Woods’s exhibition is a joyful explosion of nature, responding beautifully to the neoclassical architecture and the lush gardens of Sir John Soane’s country retreat

  • Gwen John: Strange Beauties

    To mark the 150th anniversary of Gwen John’s birth, this intimate and characterful exhibition more than celebrates her often veiled talent

  • Eva Rothschild – interview

    The artist talks about the obtuse nature of sculpture, the value of a prolonged gaze, masculinity as a social and spatial concern, and the difference between material illusion and confusion

  • Miranda Boulton – interview

    On the advice of a tutor, Boulton dedicated her practice to looking at and producing floral still-lifes, and a decade later she is still going strong

  • Victoria Pomery, chief executive, The Box, Plymouth – interview

    Plymouth’s The Box has been named 2026 Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. Pomery talks about what it means to win the UK’s most prestigious museum prize

  • Isabel Nolan – interview

    The artist talks about representing Ireland at this year’s Venice Biennale, her first major UK survey show in London, and being inspired by medieval printers, Greek philosophers, TV psychopaths and the bony knees and feet of ancient poets and priests

  • A.rtificial I.ntrospection O

    Unsettling the dominant rhetoric around artificial intelligence and directing us instead towards the fertile ground of artificial introspection, this is a timely and welcome exhibition, of cultural importance beyond its deep connection to its location

  • Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Ancestral Futures

    What do spiders, dogs, hot-air balloons and lithium mining have in common? In Saraceno’s world, everything is connected, and this exhibition takes in his ongoing eco projects and a new collaboration with the Indigenous communities of Las Salinas Grandes in…

  • Chitra Ganesh: Journey to the Great Below

    The scenography of this immersive show is spectacular, as the artist draws us into a mythical tale, but the narrative proved elusive

  • Rembrandt to Matisse: A Celebration of European Works on Paper

    This cornucopia of a show includes drawings, prints, watercolours and photographs from the 15th century to the present day

  • The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design

    The most famous British designer you have never heard of: Enid Marx is brought back into the well-deserved limelight

  • Edinburgh Art Festival 2026

    Once again, this two-week festival has something for everyone. From a celebration of the centenary of the Caribbean artist Frank Walter to a survey of the work of documentary and portrait photographer Jillian Edelstein, here is a selection of some…

  • Ana Mendieta

    The last of the great trilogy of female artists to have a retrospective at Tate Modern this summer – and by no means the least

  • Between Dreams and Reality: Stories from the Tangen Collection

    This show at Norway’s new grain silo turned modern art museum explores the influence of expressionism and surrealism on the leading Nordic painters of the 20th century

  • Refik Anadol: Machine Dreams – Rainforest

    It’s all go in Los Angeles. On the heels of LACMA’s stunning new Geffen wing comes Dataland, the world’s first museum dedicated to omni-sensory, AI-generated art, George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art, which will open in September, followed in November…

  • BorderLands

    The shadows of Brexit, the Scottish independence debate and many current border conflicts loom large as 20 artists works explore the personal, cultural and political dimensions of borders

  • Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions

    Prevented by a mental health crisis from finishing her studies at the Royal Academy, she continued to make work, using it to bring attention to harmful practices in the psychiatric system

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