Frequently working more as a sociologist than an artist, the interrogative French artist explores human behaviour, from the banal to the profound. Her work can make you laugh but it can also make you cry.
This revelatory survey of the impressionist blows away the cobwebs to re-reveal a master of storytelling, city life and intimate moments of connection.
The London-based sculptor leads a tour around Swimming by Night, a superbly organised exhibition of her beguiling, meticulously constructed sculptures.
Bringing together works from Ancient Egypt to Classical Greece, from Michelangelo to Rodin, plus contemporary artists including Louise Bourgeois and Danh Vo, this major exhibition explores how and why we still value certain things even – or especially - in their ruined state.
Verran paints large atmospheric spaces filled with small, often cryptic, graphic details. She explains why she doesn’t see herself as an abstract artist, but desires to keep the viewer on their toes – or even on ‘metaphorical barbed wire’.
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Looking back and looking forward, this 10-artist exhibition, celebrating 40 years of the Women’s Art Collection, considers what has already changed and what still needs to.
Running the gamut from ardent to whimsical, Gladys Hynes is a character well worth recovering from the annals of history.
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As the UK gets what has been called ‘a once in a millennium chance’ to see the historic Tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066, we look at what viewers can expect.
With more than 200 works drawn wholly from private collections, this exhibition may be a once in a lifetime chance to see such a diverse display of the output of these two potters.
In his Basildon studio, sculptor John Gibbons talks about light, the Big Bang, the importance of openness and modelling Winston Churchill’s hands.
May the Force Be With You! Finally landed on Earth after a decade in the planning, untold hirings and firings, and endless revisions to the 100,000 square feet of show space, and more than 30 galleries holding more than 1,300 objects, George Lucas’s museum has opened to rapturous fans.
The internationally acclaimed artist talks about his current show in Venice, XIV Steps, a cycle of 14 paintings inspired by the Stations of the Cross and why, despite not being religious, he was moved to paint them.
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The first UK survey of the esteemed Polish sculptor twists and distorts architectural features into sombre monuments to lost eras.
Despite its darker undertones of climate change and capitalism, Clare Woods’s exhibition is a joyful explosion of nature, responding beautifully to the neoclassical architecture and the lush gardens of Sir John Soane’s country retreat.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Gwen John’s birth, this intimate and characterful exhibition more than celebrates her often veiled talent.
The Chilean artist talks about listening, stitching and her latest show, which combines photographs and works with thread.
The artist talks about the obtuse nature of sculpture, the value of a prolonged gaze, masculinity as a social and spatial concern, and the difference between material illusion and confusion.
On the advice of a tutor, Boulton dedicated her practice to looking at and producing floral still-lifes, and a decade later she is still going strong.
Plymouth’s The Box has been named 2026 Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. Pomery talks about what it means to win the UK’s most prestigious museum prize.
The artist talks about representing Ireland at this year’s Venice Biennale, her first major UK survey show in London, and being inspired by medieval printers, Greek philosophers, TV psychopaths and the bony knees and feet of ancient poets and priests.
Unsettling the dominant rhetoric around artificial intelligence and directing us instead towards the fertile ground of artificial introspection, this is a timely and welcome exhibition, of cultural importance beyond its deep connection to its location.
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What do spiders, dogs, hot-air balloons and lithium mining have in common? In Saraceno’s world, everything is connected, and this exhibition takes in his ongoing eco projects and a new collaboration with the Indigenous communities of Las Salinas Grandes in Argentina.
The scenography of this immersive show is spectacular, as the artist draws us into a mythical tale, but the narrative proved elusive.
