Artes Mundi 9

The six shortlisted artists for 2021 explore colonialism, environmental breakdown and contentious hi...

Frick Madison provides temporary home for the Frick Collection

The superstars have been realigned as the old Whitney Breuer hosts the Frick Collection with surpris...

Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for t...

Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive,...

Mohamed Bourouissa – interview: ‘I see art as a playground’

Ahead of Mohamed Bourouissa's survey exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, the Paris...

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energ...

The Art Museum in Modern Times – book review

Charles Saumarez Smith, a former director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the National G...

Art appreciation in the metaverse

What on the physical earth do art collectors see in a CryptoPunk? Add to quick profits the bragging-...

Destination Art – book review

Indulge in some armchair escapism and travel to deserts forests and ghost towns, as art historian Am...

Anne Hardy – interview: ‘I’m interested in residues, leftovers, stra...

Anne Hardy talks about her new series of photograms, now online at Maureen Paley’s Studio M, how l...

Claire Ashley – interview: ‘I’m not an artist who is scared about th...

Claire Ashley makes vast colourful, oddball inflatables. Ashley talks about giving life to these cha...

Harold Offeh – interview: ‘I am always asking: who is not part of the ...

Harold Offeh discusses boredom, curiosity and 1980s pop culture, the influence of punk and hip-hop, ...

Peter Kennard – interview: ‘Montage is about allowing people to think ...

Peter Kennard, the celebrated political artist, talks of photomontage, protest, art schools and imag...

Shneel Malik – interview: ‘I’m a crazy optimist. I know that the rig...

Architect and bio-designer Shneel Malik discusses bio-algae, eco-aesthetics, artisans pioneering eco...

Jens Fänge – interview: ‘I try to come to a painting from a different...

As Jens Fänge exhibits new work in Paris, the Swedish painter talks about assemblage, the structure...

Vision & Reality: 100 Years of Contemporary Art in Wakefield

As the Hepworth Wakefield celebrates its 10th birthday, it is apposite that it is marking its place ...

Eleanor May Watson – interview: ‘Home is a sanctuary, but also a reall...

Eleanor May Watson talks about the weight of history, the evolving nature of her work and the comple...

Crystal Fischetti – interview: ‘I use my whole body when I paint’

Crystal Fischetti talks about ‘coming out’ of the spiritual closet, and how she uses her whole b...

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America – book review

Preceding an exhibition at New York’s New Museum, this book, based on a vision of the late Okwui E...

Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happ...

Artist Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its assoc...

Unearthed: Photography’s Roots

The first major exhibition of photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery uses nature as a lens to ex...

Nick Hornby – interview: ‘Liquefied photography is magical and mysteri...

British artist Nick Hornby talks about his shift from art history to personal histories, and combini...

The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

Quilts from three generations of African American makers in a remote Alabama community demonstrate g...

Sara Barker – interview: ‘I tackle sculpture from the position of pain...

Glasgow-based Sara Barker talks about how the pandemic has affected her practice and her exhibition,...

Michael Visocchi – interview

Scottish artist Michael Visocchi talks about his commission to create a sculpture for South Georgia,...