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Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselves and remain hidden at the same time’
Kiki Smith at the studio. Photo: Courtesy Pace Gallery.
Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, and why it’s important that a work should have enough in it to take care of itself
Frank Auerbach. David Landau Seated, 1995. Oil on canvas, 26 x 26 in (66 x 66 cm). Private Collection. © The Estate of Frank Auerbach. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery.
Britain’s greatest postwar painter has a belated German homecoming, which captures the remarkable presence of his work.
How Painting Happens (and why it matters) by Martin Gayford, published by Thames & Hudson. © Thames & Hudson
Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to stop.
Jonathan Baldock: WYRD, Jupiter Artland. Photo: Neil Hanna.
As a Noah’s ark of his non-binary stuffed toys goes on show at Jupiter Artland, the artist talks about growing up gay in the 1980s, being working-class in the elite art world, and why experiencing art in person, in galleries and museums, is more important than ever.
Helen Chadwick, Piss Flowers, 1991-2. Installation at Frieze, 2013. © Estate of Helen Chadwick. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York. Photo: Peter White.
Helen Chadwick’s unwillingness to accept any binary division of the world allowed her to radically explore the mechanisms of the body – physically, emotionally, sensually, sexually and sensorially.
Dame Jillian Sackler, 1940–2025. Photo: Miguel Benavides.
The art lover and philanthropist has died aged 84.
Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out by Janet McKenzie, published by Birlinn Limited, 2025.
To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words.
Charlotte Johannesson, Untitled, 1981–85, installation view, Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991, Kunsthalle Wien 2025. Courtesy the artist, Hollybush Gardens, London, and Croy Nielsen, Vienna. Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
With more than 100 works by 50 artists, this show examines the pioneering role of women in computer art, looking at how our visual perceptions have evolved, the technological impacts on art and contrasts in artistic methods.
Giuseppe Penone, A occhi chiusi (With Eyes Closed), 2009. Acrylic, glass microspheres, acacia thorns on canvas, and white Carrara marble. © Photo: George Darrell. Courtesy Giuseppe Penone and Serpentine.
With numerous works created with the twigs, leaves, roots, branches and majestic forms of trees, this retrospective captures the Italian artist’s arboreal obsession over five decades.
Solange Pessoa: Pilgrim Fields, installation view, Glasgow Tramway, 10 May – 5 October 2025. Photo: Veronica Simpson.
An olfactory orgy of marigolds, chamomile, grasses, sheepskins and kelp is arranged into a surreal landscape – and a lush scentscape - to prick our understanding of what is wild and what is natural, in the Brazilian artist’s first UK institutional show.
Christian Krohg. La Barre sous le vent! (The Leeward Bar!), 1882. Oil on canvas, 50 × 60 cm. Oslo National Museum. Photo: © Nasjonalmuseet / Jaques Lathion.
A key figure in Norwegian art, the naturalist painter wanted his art to bring social change and produced strikingly modern images.
Georges Chevalier (1882-1967), Paris, place de la Bourse, 5 June 1914. Autochrome, 9 x 12 cm. Collection Archives de la Planète, musée départemental Albert-Kahn, dpt des Hauts-de-Seine.
This comprehensive show charts the groundbreaking rise of the illustrated poster in 19th-century France, drawing on its rich heritage and highlighting its wide impact on society.
Caspar David Friedrich. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, ca. 1817. Installation view, Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 8 February – 11 May 2025. Photo: Richard Lee, Courtesy of The Met.
This comprehensive show celebrating last year’s 250th anniversary of the Romantic painter’s birth brings together an extraordinary collection of his works.
William Ludwig Lutgens. Joy Sauce in The Belly 3#, 2025. Installation view, Painting After Painting, SMAK, Ghent, 2025. Photo: Dirk Pauwels.
A humongous survey of contemporary painting in Belgium shows a medium embracing the burden of its history.
Helen Cammock, installation view, Time for Women! Empowering Visions in 20 Years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina, 2025. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze.
A retrospective of the first 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women finds an inexhaustible well of inspiration in Italy.
Nora Turato pool7: Logical Freeze, 2025 (still). Single-channel audio installation, approx 15 min. Image courtesy the artist.
This new work is very much about indeterminate selfhood as Turato immerses the visitor in a swimming pool-like psychological space – is she a mystic or a charlatan, or both?.
Htein Lin. The Fly (2005), video, colour, sound, 7:39 minutes. Installation view, Htein Lin, Escape, Ikon Gallery, 2025. Image courtesy Ikon. Photo: David Rowan.
The Burmese artist has been jailed many times and this show includes some of the remarkable paintings and drawings he created while held as a political prisoner.
Suzanne Valadon. Joie de vivre, 1911. Oil on canvas, 122.9 x 205.7 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Mademoiselle Adélaïde Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.
This retrospective brings the acclaimed and trailblazing, but nearly forgotten French modernist artist back into view.
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship, installation view, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
10 April – 10 August 2025.
A kaleidoscope of colour through which the history of modernism is refracted, this exhibition brings to light the creative benefits of long-lasting friendship, collaboration and experimentation.
Ed Atkins, Pianowork 2, 2024, installation view, Tate Britain, 2 April – 25 August 2025. © Tate Photography (Josh Croll).
In this major retrospective, the viewer is like an avatar navigating the humans – real and CGI – that populate Atkins’ world of existential dread.
Chaar Yaar (the Faqiri Quartet) closing the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual symposium, 2025.
Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual symposium this year explored how culture is preserved and shared within communities.
Charlotte Verity and Christopher Le Brun, 2024. Photos: Simon Dawson.
To coincide with a rare joint exhibition now on view at The Gallery at Windsor in Florida, the artists consider the limitless possibilities of paint, their resistance to genre boundaries and the importance of keeping a harmonious distance between one another’s work.
Valentina Karga: Well Beings, installation view, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany, 29 March – 31 August 2025. Photo courtesy Kunstmuseum Bochum.
The artist highlights the ecological horrors ravaging our world, but her aim is not to shock or to shame. With her cosy sofas and sensory objects, she wants us to find ways to deal with the anxieties and conflicts we face.
Left: Peter Mitchell, Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, Spring 1986, © Peter Mitchell. Right: Peter Mitchell, The Kitson House telephone, Quarry Hill Flats, 1978 © Peter Mitchell.
Mitchell’s photographs of urban decay and the demolition of buildings in Leeds over the past 50 years show a world now vanished, but his empathy for his subjects shines through.
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