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Flora Yukhnovich – interview: ‘I’m always looking at history through a kaleidoscope of contemporary references’
Flora Yukhnovich in her London studio, February 2022. Photo: Eva Herzog. © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
Where better to view the work of contemporary rococo-inspired painter Flora Yukhnovich than at the Wallace Collection, where they hang proud among the canvases and decorative items that have long inspired her? She tells us about her work and her inspirations
Oceanside Plaza, downtown Los Angeles, an abandoned luxury skyscraper development tagged with graffiti. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.
Graffiti! The recent dust-up over three Los Angeles skyscrapers raises the question: defacement or fine art? Follow its history, from marked-up rocks to NFTs, and weigh in.
Goshka Macuga, Born from Stone, 2024. Photo: Jason Alden.
Macuga, whose exhibition Born from Stone is now on view at the London Mithraeum, discusses the potent allure of caves for the human psyche, a complicated relationship with her native Poland and the inexorable reiteration of violence throughout history.
Portrait of Claudia Martínez Garay, 2023. Photo: Lais Pereira.
As her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary draws to a close, the multidisciplinary Peruvian artist has opened a major solo exhibition in Dundee, exploring the connections and contradictions between ancient and modern mythologies and iconographies, impacted by colonial erasure and modified through speculative fictions.
Raven Halfmoon with The Guardians. Image courtesy of the artist and Salon 94. © Raven Halfmoon.
The sculptor and citizen of the Caddo nation talks about her forthcoming show at Salon 94 in New York City, the giant bronze figure at its centre, and how she mixes her ancestral narratives with popular contemporary culture.
Carlos Moreno riding a bike in Paris. Photo: Mathieu Delmestre.
The urban planner behind the concept of the 15-minute city talks about why it is now an urgent necessity worldwide and considers why the idea of limiting car use has become so controversial.
Moka Takeda, Day Tripper, 2023. Mixed media, dimension variable. Image courtesy Gyre Gallery, Tokyo.
Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated.
John Maeda. AI Infinity, 1993. Glossy C-type print mounted on board and ERC-721 token, 30 x 42 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in). Courtesy Gazelli Art House and certified by Verisart. Copyright of the artist.
This exhibition calls back to the surface a hidden gradient of software art development since the 1990s and links it with a material and historical turn in digital art of the present.
Jan Pimblett, Bound(aries), 2023. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW). Photo: Dianne Barry.
This year’s festival urges us to believe that, collectively, we can build a better future. And while there are no miracle cures, I came away from it with a feeling of hope.
Installation view, After The End of History. Photo: Anna Lukala, courtesy the Artist, Focal Point Gallery and Hayward Gallery Touring.
From the northern soul scene to farmers and a world boxing champ, photographers have captured images of their own communities, at the same time calling out middle-class assumptions of what constitutes good taste.
Angus Pryor. Photo courtesy of 
the artist.
The artist explains his fascination with the Book of Enoch, long rejected by the Christian church, and how he aims to give an interpretation of the text from his perspective as a non-believer.
Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary, installation view, Newlands House Gallery, 12 July – 26 October 2024. Image courtesy Newlands House Gallery.
The sculptures, masks, lithographs and tapestries in this exhibition introduce a cast of characters from the fantastical other worlds of the English Mexican surrealist artist’s magnificently mad mind.
Patrick Caulfield, Coloured Still Life, 1967. Acrylic on panel, 56 x 89 cm. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estate of MJ Long / Wilson and allocated to Pallant House Gallery (2021).
With works from the 17th century to today, from Edwaert Collier to Duncan Grant and Maggi Hambling, this exhibition shows that still life, once seen as the lowliest of genres, has much to offer.
Parade by Rachel Cusk, published by Faber.
I wanted to like Rachel Cusk’s latest experimental novel, in which she writes about various artists, all known only as ‘G’. The truth is that I found it alienating and irritating and struggled to finish it.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. Portrait. Courtesy the Artist.

The Berlin techno club provides the perfect setting for a pioneering game-making artist whose works hold visitors responsible for their actions.
Mabel Pryde Nicholson, The Grange, c1911. Scottish National Gallery.
Mother, wife, sister and daughter to artists who have eclipsed her deserved fame, this charming exhibition is one big family album, focusing on a woman who, during her lifetime, sought to hide in the shadows.
Tavares Strachan, Black Star, 2024. Installation view, Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere, Hayward Gallery, London, 18 June – 1 September 2024. Photo: Mark Blower. Courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery.
A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history.
Charlie Stiven. Photo © The Artist.
The artist talks about the 3D models in his earlier exhibition, Kiosk, at Summerhall, Edinburgh, including End of the Pier Show, now on permanent display there, and why Brexit has been so bad for Britain and for artists.
Yoshitomo Nara. My Drawing Room 2008, Bedroom Included, 2008. Installation view, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 28 June – 3 November 2024. Image courtesy Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
His children may appear unrealistic and simplistic, but they pulsate with a complexity of emotional pain that exceeds our idea of innocence, as if the kids carry the imprint of the adult world’s woes.
Dr Helen Charman, Director of the Young V&A, winners of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 at the National Gallery in London. Photo: David Parry, PA Media Assignments.
The Young V&A has been awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award. The institution’s director discusses the museum’s creative transformation and its vision to build a community programme for deprived children living along the Thames Estuary.
Alex Cecchetti, The Journey of One Breath, 2024. Installation view, Take a Breath, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 14 June 2024 - 17 March 2025. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.
At a time when the WHO says pollution is the biggest threat to our existence, this immersive show explores the air we breathe and its geological, cultural and political significance, with work from artists including Isabel Nolan, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramović and Alex Cecchetti.
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent, Whitechapel Gallery, London 23 July 2024 - 19 January 2025. Photo: Lucy Dawkins.
For 50 years, Kennard’s activist art has railed against corporate and state power, wars and poverty. And as this exhibition spanning those five decades shows, his outrage has not abated.
Lucia Pizzani, Cultivo y Memoria (Crop and Memory), Harewood Biennial 2024 Create/Elevate. Photo: Drew Forsyth, courtesy Harewood House Trust.
The London-based Venezuelan artist talks about her commission at Harewood House, her exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects and her inclusion in the curated ceramics section Smoke at Frieze London 2024.
Postcard, Hubbard, Olympic Champion of the long jump (A.N. Paris series, no. 387), 1924. Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print on paper.
A compelling exhibition turns back the clock to the last Paris Olympics, where art, photography and sport collided like never before and athletics entered the age of celebrity.
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