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Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song
Chris Ofili, The Caged Bird's Song, 2014–2017 at Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, The Clothworkers' Company and Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh. Photo: Gautier Deblonde.
Weavers translated a triptych watercolour painting by Ofili into a tapestry, and this exhibition gives visitors the chance to see this amazing work and learn about the fascinating backstory of its conception and making
Ed Clark, 2024. Installation view. © Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo: Thierry Bal.
Bringing together works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this is the first institutional exhibition in Europe of the groundbreaking artist who favoured a push broom over a paintbrush.
Now You See Us. Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, installation view, Tate Britain 2024. Photo © Tate (Lucy Green).
Monumental and momentous, this exhibition does away with any lingering notion that there have been ‘no great women artists’, offering as evidence more than 100 names and 200 works.
Hetain Patel. Photo: © Sam Bush.
Alongside the artist’s own work, which includes a carpet-covered Ford Escort, is a cornucopia of submissions from artists, crafters, collectors and hobbyists, including elaborate cosplay costumes, football shirts, kites and even a Lego underground railway. Here, Patel takes us behind the scenes.
Lonnie Holley: All Rendered Truth, Installation view, Camden Art Centre, 5 July —15 September 2024. Photo: Rob Harris.
The American artist and musician redeems humanity’s junk and reveals the dark histories of mundane objects.
Dion Kitson, Rue Britannia, installation view, Ikon Gallery, 2024. Image courtesy Ikon. Photo: Tom Bird.
From pool cues resembling mops to a re-creation of a landfill pile, Kitson’s witty sculptures at the Ikon Gallery are a comment on class, identity and the state of modern Britain, while an old silver factory provides the setting for a new commission honouring our lost industrial past.
Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921. Oil on canvas, 33 x 45.5 cm. National Art Museum of Ukraine. © The Burliuk Foundation.
A touring exhibition of art from Ukraine’s national museums captures the country’s distinctive contribution to the early 20th-century avant garde.
An array of eclectic sculptures from the Hybrid Dislocations grouping. From left to right: El secreto de Darwin (Darwin's Secret), Nueva Generación, Pork Belly Futures, Jerarquía (Pecking Order), Corazón Corriente (Running from the Heart), M'ezcalera al Cielo (M’stairs to the Sky). Photo courtesy Corning Museum of Glass.
A feast for maximalists, the Mexican American brothers’ sparkling blown-glass sculptures and gaudy large-scale lenticular prints mix humour with a pointed critique of colonialism.
Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game #12: Musical Chairs, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012. In collaboration with Elena Pardo and Félix Blume.
The Belgian artist’s thoughtful new exhibition transforms the Barbican into a bustling global playground.
Mary Beale. Self Portrait of Mary Beale with Her Husband and Son, late 1650s. Museum of the Home.
A prolific portrait painter from the 17th century, Beale left a far-reaching legacy and espoused a progressive partnership of equality with her husband, which enabled her to become one of Britain’s first professional female artists.
Garth Evans at his exhibition A Place in the World, Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, Mexico, 2024. Photo: Iván Rmz.
In the lead up to his 90th birthday, the sculptor talks to Sam Cornish, curator of A Place in the World, his current exhibition in Mexico, about the role of colour in sculpture, the necessity of working without concern for an audience’s reaction and allowing a lack of control into the process of making.
Percy Wyndham Lewis, Robe, 1913-14. Embroidered and block-printed silk robe. Background: Henry Lamb, Edie McNeill, 1911. Oil on canvas. On loan courtesy of Southampton City Art Gallery. ⁠Copyright The Artist⁠. Reproduced by kind permission of the Henry Lamb Estate. Installation view, Augustus John and the First Crisis of Brilliance, Piano Nobile, London 2024. Photo courtesy of Piano Nobile, London.
Augustus John was a star around whom many significant artists were in orbit. This enlightening exhibition paints a lively picture of their interface.
Sonia Boyce. Benevolence, 2024. Installation view, GAMeC / Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, 2024. Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri. Courtesy GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo. © Sonia Boyce by SIAE 2024.
Not so much a festival as a cultural programme that runs over two years, Thinking Like a Mountain aims to weave stories between nature and culture, with events and exhibitions taking place in and around Bergamo, to alert new audiences to the riches on their doorstep.
Installation view, Vanessa Bell A Pioneer in Modern Art, The Courtauld Gallery, 2024. Photo: Fergus Carmichael/The Courtauld.
This exhibition focuses on the 1910s, the most radical and experimental period of an artist who individually, and as a member of the Bloomsbury set, changed the face of British art.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Washington, USA, 1957. © 2024 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
This comprehensive retrospective of the French master of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on his political side while also presenting a wider perspective on his work chronicling the 1930s to the 1970s.
Ronald Moody with Concrete
Family, 1963. © Val Wilmer. Photo:
Val Wilmer.
Moody’s sculptures fizz with life in this beautifully paced show, in which the Jamaican artist’s works sit alongside those of contemporaries such as Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore.
Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud, installation view, The Hepworth Wakefield, 22 June – 3 November 2024. Photo: Mark Blower.
This show, about the imprints of the human body, and which includes three new commissions – two tapestries and one of his ‘dust cloud’ installations – is conversely light and celestial.
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939, published by Yale Books in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Robyn Asleson’s beautifully illustrated book follows women such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Peggy Guggenheim, who, freed from the restrictions of gender, sexuality and race in the US, became leading avant garde figures in early 20th-century Paris.
Roger Mayne. Men and Boys, Southam Street, London 1959. Vintage gelatin silver print, 18.5 x 27 cm. © Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library.
Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family.
Huong Dodinh: Transcendence, installation view, Pace Gallery, New York, 3 May – 16 August 2024. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery.
This exhibition, the Paris-based artist’s first solo show in New York, is a revelation in elegant minimalism honed over the past six decades.
Mella Shaw. Photo © Olive and Maeve.
The artist talks about her award-winning work Sounding Line, which focuses on the overuse of marine sonar and its devastating effect on whales, and what she hopes it will achieve.
Jules Chéret. Folies-Bergères. Miss Lala, 1880. Colour lithograph, 55 x 39 cm. Bibliothèque-musée de l'Opéra. © Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Take one exceptional work and tease out various strands to create a small but exemplary exhibition – this approach has paid dividends in the case of Degas and Miss La La.
Portrait of Gavin Jantjes Photo: Angela Musil. Courtesy the artist.
The South African painter, printmaker and former curator talks about the pitfalls of expectation, diversifying Britain’s art scene and creating a truly visual art.
Sandra George. Claim Now: Craigmillar Welfare Rights, 1988. Image courtesy of Craigmillar Now.
George’s social-documentary photography is the standout exhibition of this year’s Glasgow International, giving agency once more to the less privileged among whom she worked.
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