The intoxicating Thick Time is the South African artist’s first major UK exhibition for 15 years. Continue Reading Space, Time and Everything In Between: William Kentridge: Thick Time ...
When I’ve walked away from all the images of massacres and witches, bandits and clashing armies and lunatics, and when the pictures of kings and gods have faded away, the ...
This exploration of Victorian responses to the telegraph is wonderfully thought-provoking, writes Eleanor Franzén. Continue Reading Communication Nation: Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy at Guildhall Art Gallery
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If you stayed to watch everything in this Icelandic artist’s exhibition, you’d have to stay for 24 hours. Continue Reading A Philosophy of Time: Ragnar Kjartansson at the ...
For such a reasonably well-known name, Georgia O’Keeffe is vastly underrated. Continue Reading A Sense of Home: Georgia O’Keeffe at the Tate Modern
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My favoured form of creative sustenance is visual art, particularly modern art. Perhaps this is because images invite the viewer to create their own narrative where one may not already ...
Gina Mussio revisits Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel. Continue Reading Revisiting The Goldfinch
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After W.B. Yeats disappeared in the dead of winter, Auden told us: “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Given the frigid weather, the looming war and the passing of one of the ...
The artist Derrick Harris, forgotten by history, committed suicide in 1960. But his art is vibrant, eccentric and witty. Stephen Hargadon visited his widow and her daughter in London to ...
“Her images will not serve for distraction,” says Professor Patrick Healy of Mia Funk’s paintings, “They are there to confront and be confronted.” Continue Reading At Paris’s Galerie ...
Art is a very democratic medium despite the balance of power being somewhat unfairly tipped towards men. Continue Reading Contemporary Women Artists in their Own Words
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The spirit of acquisition is strong in the world. People hoard bottle tops. They collect magazines. They stack old vinyls in their garages. And a long, long way away on ...
On the synaesthesia of aroma and art in the Herrera-Harfuch collection. Continue Reading The Herrera-Harfuch Art Collection
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Where does Birdman sit in the pantheon of Mad Artist films? Is it as bold as we think? Continue Reading Birdman and the Art of Madness
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In creating the Anti-Gallery Gallery Show in and around Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch, the art collective Degrees of Freedom creates an irreverent counterpoint to the usual gallery space – and ...
Wandering around Mirror, the Frith Street Gallery’s summer show, Joanna Pocock struggles to make sense of it. On the one hand, it’s about portraiture – but on the other hand, ...
US philosopher Arnold Berleant spoke of the boundlessness of nature, our “sensory immersion in the natural world”. Ellen Stone has similar thoughts about To Leave a Light Impression, photographer and ...
The National Gallery’s Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 lures punters in with the promise of an amber-bound time of waltzes, neuroses and Art Nouveau. Visitors will surely ...
Candy, a group show at Blain|Southern Gallery of works by Damien Hirst and Cuba’s late Félix González-Torres, is unapologetically brash. All the more reason to go see it, argues Ellen ...
Right after seeing Traces, the Hayward Gallery retrospective of major Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, Lauren Frankel’s perception was amplified: the world took on a new kind of magic. ...
