In a joyous coupling of art with nature, Yayoi Kusama’s cheering and restorative polka dots and pumpkins are just what is needed after this traumatic year.
The British artist talks about his new works at Victoria Miro, freaking out in lockdown and encapsulating a year in colour.
Clare Patey talks about 25 years of creating and producing powerful, participatory, public artworks on climate change, plastic waste and loss of empathy.
The premise of this 11-day festival is that art can draw attention to the state of our planet and propose a better future through sustainable development goals.
A suite of new works by the German painter, exploring the theme of Arcadia, mix inscrutability with assertiveness.
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For her debut solo exhibition in the UK, the New York-based artist Mika Tajima focuses on the ways in which psychic and bodily energy is regulated by technocapitalism.
A suite of works by the New York painter form a tribute to the stars of country music, the power of celebrity and the American imagination.
With a wide range of drawings, including works by Rubens, Charles Keene, Sickert and Whistler, this exhibition reflects on a culture that has now been largely superseded.
The unsettling depictions of nature in Hurvin Anderson’s new paintings, based on photos from a 2017 trip to Jamaica, address his relationship with his ancestral homeland. He talks about the works and how lockdown changed his practice.
Jadé Fadojutimi talks about how lockdown enriched her practice, her obsession with Japan, her Liverpool Biennial exhibition – and why she wants her studio to feel like her bedroom.
The film-maker and photographer discusses recording the evolution of human-environment relations, the role of technology on how we see, and his latest film, exploring the elaborate infrastructure of Lisbon’s aquarium, a ‘United Nations of fishes’.
Mehretu’s vision is both epic and intimate and this survey of 25 years of her craft is a measure of her dazzling success.
Through the works of Frank Bowling, John Hoyland, Reginald Sylvester II, John Golding and Sam Gilliam, this small group show explores the visceral, emotional, and physical side of their process and the power of their abstract painting.
This exhibition explores Japanese artists’ notion of beauty in the late-18th to the early 20th century, and how it came to be profoundly influenced by western views.
Twelve artists feature in this show, with works that examine the nature of official records and how they are used to suppress and oppress and to twist or obfuscate the truth.
Rachel Whiteread, whose new show is at the Gagosian in London, talks about the pandemic, dump-digging, deserts, historic influences and working in a new and different way.
The Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect discusses her methodology of architecture as the ‘archaeology of the future’, and the origins and evolution of her award-winning Stone Garden apartment block in Beirut.
A photographic cornucopia of Kahn’s buildings, this highly visual publications takes its reader on a striking tour of his architectural aesthetic.
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It takes more than wealth and success to run a museum, so why do so many collectors decide to go it alone?.
The six shortlisted artists for 2021 explore colonialism, environmental breakdown and contentious histories. All credit to this online offering, but to fully experience the power of these works, they need to be seen in person.
The superstars have been realigned as the old Whitney Breuer hosts the Frick Collection with surprising success.
Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event.
Ahead of Mohamed Bourouissa’s survey exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, the Paris-based artist discusses his routes to art, his creative techniques and the perils of working locally.
Hird’s exhibition includes her award-winning animated short film along with interactive stage sets and multimedia paintings.
Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs.
A former director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery, Charles Saumarez Smith takes us to 42 of his favourite museums worldwide, considering how our experience of art is impacted by the buildings that house it.
What on the physical earth do art collectors see in a CryptoPunk? Add to quick profits the bragging-rights of a Rolex and read on to track the ‘techtonic’ shift.
Indulge in some armchair escapism and travel to deserts forests and ghost towns, as art historian Amy Dempsey takes us on a tour of permanently sited artworks around the world.
Philip Hughes talks about his practice and what informed his new book, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia, which includes work he has created over the past 50 years.
Hardy talks about her new series of photograms, now online at Maureen Paley’s Studio M, how lockdown has affected her work – and her forthcoming residency in the Texan desert.
