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.
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.
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.
The American artist and musician redeems humanity’s junk and reveals the dark histories of mundane objects.
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.
A touring exhibition of art from Ukraine’s national museums captures the country’s distinctive contribution to the early 20th-century avant garde.
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.
The Belgian artist’s thoughtful new exhibition transforms the Barbican into a bustling global playground.
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.
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.
Augustus John was a star around whom many significant artists were in orbit. This enlightening exhibition paints a lively picture of their interface.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.