At Kunstverein Kevin, Vienna, ‘Thoughts in No Particular Order, Given the Circumstances’ turns a simple logistical prompt ...

From Asad Raza’s public tennis court staged in a former Belgian church to a subtly subversive edition of Manifesta set across ...

In 1962, a new Jamaican consciousness and sense of self was reborn in fire through ceremonial state independence from Britain, its former enslaver and colonist. Not since the initiation of the ...

It is tempting to think of a mirror as something that reflects the world back to us exactly as it is. But in Isaac Julien’s new exhibition at Victoria Miro, the artist distorts this image through a ...

In the introduction to a selection of his plays published in 1991, the English writer Michael Frayn tried to diagnose what went wrong with Balmoral, his 1987 farce in which the British monarch’s ...

Currently a curator at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, as well as a writer and art historian, Catherine Nichols gained international recognition for her stewardship of Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, Kosovo.

The 1970s–80s in New York City is one of those periods in art history that still presses upon us with the totalizing influence of its cultural production. In Lower Manhattan, rapacious creative ...

As Factory Records’ co-founder and art director from 1978–93, Peter Saville produced enigmatic artworks that repurposed images from industrial and cultural history. The chaotic ethos of the label ...

For those longing to see Frida Kahlo’s original paintings and know more about her internal world, ‘Frida: The Making of an Icon’, Tate Modern’s sprawling homage to the legendary painter has a lot to ...

‘What’s that?’ proclaims a small boy clutching an ice cream, pointing with his free hand towards the sea. His mother doesn’t know how to answer. ‘It’s a bird,’ she says cautiously. They’re standing on ...

The earliest example of what could be deemed a smiley was discovered by archaeologists working in southern Turkey who found a 1,700 BCE ceramic jug with faint markings that followed the pattern of a ...