Children scrapping, lovers embracing, the pain of losing a loved one, even Brexit, all demonstrate the pain and pleasure of friendships and falling out in this fascinating group show.
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Magnificent bed hangings, tablecloths, tea cosies and more bring Scotland’s heritage of interior domestic design to life in this extraordinary exhibition covering 1720-1920.
Set in Florence at the turn of the 16th century, this exhibition is a portrait of drawing, every bit as much as it is a lively tale of three renowned artists.
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This magical exhibition of Jansson’s lesser-known murals captures a yearning for paradise in the midst of war.
The Zimbabwean artist combines dreams, painting and prayer in her work, resulting in an intensely moving show.
He is an author, curator and a member of the Qatari royal family. He is also the founder of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Art, a not-for-profit organisation that he hopes will enlighten those in the west about the art and people of the Middle East.
From the works of Nancy Holt and Richard Long in the 1960s and 70s to contemporary artists, this show presents photography, film and land art that engages directly with the freedom and wilderness of Dartmoor.
In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond the visible world and turning the mundane into something wondrous. This exhibition, spanning the century from then until now, whets the appetite for an even more in-depth exploration.
The works here riff on the interplay between text and images, between the tangible and the conceptual , blurring the line between the abstract nature of language and the concrete world it often describes.
Halsey’s multicolour, candyfloss, shout-out vision of a universe is an image of what it is to be part of something, to believe and to thrive, to make a mark.
Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spirit in this fiesta of ideas, movement and noise.
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London.
A well-sized survey distils the Congolese artist’s research-heavy practice, which draws connections between colonial and contemporary exploration.
The artist talks about why she is more like Sergei Diaghilev than Taylor Swift, how she explains the incest and murder in Greek mythology to her son, and what led to her interest in tufted fabric.
With rarely shown works by famous artists, this exhibition demonstrates how new printing techniques extended impressionism beyond painting.
Ephemeral installations incorporate melting candles, felled trees, ageing fruit and decomposing flowers, but the showstopper is a mighty felled ash that dominates an entire gallery.
A long overdue London retrospective of the pioneering, prescient American artist is not for the faint-hearted.
Installed by the artist over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a manifold landscape of fragility and contingency.
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From chamberpots paired with Georgian silver to the reimagining of the story of Jacob and Esau, the two artists, working together for the first time, point up multiple dualities and inequalities.
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This stripped-back exhibition, with just three drawings and six hand-built vessels, allows the stark elegance of Odundo’s work to shine through.
The Barbican takes us on a fascinating ride through two and a half decades of Indian art, teasing out the transformations and contradictions in the country’s recent history.
Five years in the planning, this festival of art, spanning the West Coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego, involves 70 exhibits by more than 800 artists and a range of material that puts multimedia in the light.
Outdoor sculptures by nine female artists are on display in this show, but it’s hard not to feel that they deserve better than this neglected space.
