An ambitious group exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, reimagines a socialist educational programme and the ...
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 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 ...
With ‘RAIN / RUIN’, a large exhibition of predominantly new work, Phillip Lai makes clear that his interest in the singularity of objects does not preclude a study of enmeshment. Spike Island’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
‘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 ...
Standing on a plinth made of suitcases, a man, woman and child hold hands tightly, solemnly looking into the distance. These larger-than-life figures, rendered in near-painterly undulations of bronze, ...
Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk, 2019. Courtesy and photograph: Sascha Schuermann/AFP via Getty Images ...