Tag: London

  • Writings on the Wall

    This exhibition is a tribute to six 20th-century artists who drew inspiration from the street art and graffiti they found in their cities, in a celebration of mark making both ancient and modern

  • Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition

    This show takes us through the ephemera of Kubrick’s films – from female mannequins and a giant shiny white penis from A Clockwork Orange to a letter to the director from the woman who played Lolita – but is it…

  • We Are the People. Who Are You?

    As the UK wrestles with Brexit, this show, with the feel of a mini-institutional survey on artists responding to the technological ravaging of liberal democracy, could not have come at a better time

  • Staging Jackson Pollock

    With glimmers of a cloak-and-danger cold war thriller, this look at the US artist’s 1958 UK debut considers the gallery design, remarkable for its time, and the murky matter of Pollock’s secret CIA support

  • Christine Ay Tjoe: ‘I will always treat every medium as paper and pencil’

    For her first solo exhibition in London, the Indonesian artist presents a group of intricately layered paintings and drawings that call on the contrasting environments of her home city of Bandung

  • Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings

    From his famed Pompidou Centre to eye-opening projects that many won’t know about, including a travelling pavilion for IBM, to the Shard, Renzo Piano’s inspiration and genius shine through in this exhibition highlighting 16 of his works

  • Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

    As the V&A this week opens an exhibition that celebrates groundbreaking innovations in video game design, its curator, Marie Foulston, discusses the medium’s radical development over the past 20 years, and why now is the right time for a show…

  • Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future

    The Hayward Gallery’s group show suggests future survival will demand that humans adjust to changing circumstances rather than adapting the environment to maintain their current mode of living

  • Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

    Based on found photographs collected by French film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery examines the historical notion of cross-dressing, but in concentrating on a binary way of thinking, it has missed a trick

  • Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing

    Presenting Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke and Gerald Laing in dialogue with each other within the context of their pop-inspired pointillism, Source and Stimulus is a vibrant study of the origin of the Ben-Day dot in fine art