Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress
Within the myriad forms of political art, it is possible to discern two primary strands. The first i...
Permission Granted Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International
In January 2008, the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera puzzled visitors to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern...
Our voice as protagonist – a meeting with Tania Bruguera
The chatter of a roomful of museum workers turned to silence the minute Tania Bruguera walked into t...
Patricia Johanson: The World as a Work of Art
The landscape artist and architect Patricia Johanson (b1940) occupies a unique position in her chose...
Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making, 1789 - 2013
On a single floor of Tate Liverpool, 200 years of art influenced by the Left is exhibited: a big ide...
Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris
In the opinion of the writer Charles Baudelaire, the nineteenth-century French caricaturist and pain...
Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern is an outstanding exhibition of 130 works by one of the mas...
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900
The trouble with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition Chinese Masterpieces: 700-1900 is tha...
Kentridge: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?
William Kentridge’s new installation, The Refusal of Time, bewilders this unprepared viewer: I fin...
Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank
Very rarely does a show of new work by a contemporary artist deliver on its promise more fully than ...
Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences
Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s leading commercial art fair and has drawn an international audience of...
Using a carefully balanced combination of PVA glue and acrylic paints – the precise measures of wh...
Ben Brown Fine Arts presents us with the first solo exhibition of Wang Keping in the UK. Considering...
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames
“Oh Fantin, I know so little – things do not go quickly!”, wrote James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
Mike Kelley’s retrospective at PS1 is not for the fainthearted. Nor is it for the lighthearted, fo...
Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia
Beyond El Dorado seeks to cut through the myth of the golden city, but the reality is no less captiv...
Nick Relph: Tomorrow There Is No Recording
This solo exhibition marks a departure from Nick Relph’s 10-year collaboration with Oliver Payne....
Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Two grey figures walk down a set of stairs surrounded by a mass of buildings, fragments of advertise...
A Traveller in Time, from Standing Stones to the Distant Stars: an intervi...
In the 1990s, Japanese multimedia artist Mariko Mori became known for her performance-based photogra...
Sarah Lucas: Situation – Absolute Beach Man Rubble
Rotting hams, kippers and kebabs; cucumbers, bananas, zeppelins; melons, lemons and fried eggs. Sara...
Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity
In a new show entitled Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity, the concept of “motherho...
The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden
This autumn, leafy Brussels invites the visitor to a spectacle of detail in oil. An exhibition devot...
After I had seen Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta’s travelling multimedia installation Gernika/G...
Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm
These days we take for granted the irony of using destruction as part of art, employed by movements ...
Andy Warhol: Pop, Power and Politics
Warhol was one of the first artists to recognise the truly spectacular side of politics in the democ...
At the opening of Kara Walker's first UK exhibition, we spoke to her about her work, which is a dark...
It might appear that we are miles away from civilisation. In fact, we are standing in the long derel...
Philomene Pirecki has just been shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In addition to thi...
From Power Lunches to Public Sculpture
When former Condé Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman, a fixture at the publishing company f...
Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Covering the period during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867 to 1918, Facing the Modern charts the p...