Tag: Yinka Shonibare

  • Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States

    When does an artistic trope stop being art? The incessant repetition of Yinka Shonibare’s trademark batik print is starting to wear thin

  • Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change

    The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 historical and contemporary works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past

  • Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art

    This rigorously researched and curated, yet aesthetically delightful, exhibition forces the visitor to reckon with Oscar Wilde’s statement that the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it

  • Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes

    An absorbing group show explores the familial, economic and spiritual connections between the Nigerian megacity and a south London suburb

  • Summer Exhibition 2021

    Yinka Shonibare has transformed this annual event into a paean to diversity, bringing work from the invisible and marginalised alongside that of amateur artists and academicians

  • The Armory Show 2019

    From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…

  • From Life

    This exhibition sets out to explore the significance of life drawing and the life class in art practice, but the real joy of drawing is largely overlooked

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

    It was all systems go – quality art, media buzz, more space, more work – but with a lower attendance and many big collector names absent, America’s premier art fair had a last hurrah undertow

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017

    The RA’s annual open submission exhibition presents a shifting ‘kaleidoscope’ of contemporary art – but what does it show us about art now?

  • Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences

    Situated in Regent’s Park, Frieze London hosted more than 150 exhibitors in an airily minimal pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke. A short stroll away, at Gloucester Green, its sister fair, Frieze Masters, presented “130 of the world’s leading galleries” in…