Probably the UK’s best-known contemporary sculptor, Gormley has created a new ‘field’ of 100 life-size cast-iron versions of himself at the historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, where he talked to us about the work.
In his new paintings, the rising Iraqi-born artist makes ambiguity alluring.
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This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity.
A three-month stay in Central Australia with his partner, the artist Marina Strocchi, turned into a 30-year sojourn. Eager talks about working with Indigenous people to further their art and witnessing a transformation in the art market’s view of Aboriginal work.
What is the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good? Mae Architects founder Alex Ely shares insights on the firm’s Stirling Prize-winning approach.
This beguiling exhibition, which spans 170 years, reveals the impressive adaptability of glass in the most atmospheric of settings.
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With a mix of new and old works, Kiefer draws us into a world where good and evil are blurred – and it’s hard not to see parallels with what is happening in Gaza.
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With works covering pregnancy, birth and nursing through to caring for older children, as well as miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, this show sets out to demonstrate that motherhood is a legitimate subject for contemporary art.
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This major retrospective celebrates the work of a man whose atmospheric shots of New York street scenes made him one of the most important photographers of the postwar period.
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This show sprang from a journal the artist kept during the Covid lockdowns in 2020-21, a time of intense introspection. Through film, drawings and paintings Maheke transports us through adversity to a place of hope.
Wong’s exuberant dreamscapes and imaginary worlds sprang from many influences, but his affinity for Van Gogh’s work lasted throughout his brilliant, though tragically short, career.
This year’s edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s March meeting focused on collectives, collaboration and social justice, a theme that had particular poignance in light of the war in Gaza.
Boyce’s show at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, offers three distinctive, in-between spaces for exploring the work’s ambiguities, somewhere between sculpture and infrastructure, exterior and interior architecture. He talks us through it .
This richly documented show does justice to the feisty Bekker vom Rath, a German art collector, dealer and painter, who championed modern and contemporary art, even disobeying the dictates of the Nazi regime by organising secret exhibitions at her home.
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On the occasion of a show of Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the pioneering British artist’s transition from paint to code.
Through his sensitive and thoughtful works, Kourbaj ensures the plight of those in his native Syria cannot be forgotten.
The English eccentric meets his German peers in a treasure-strewn exhibition that makes Blake seem stranger than ever.
Highlights from the golden age of photography, produced for fashion magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, lead us on a stunning journey through fashion and social change from 1910 to the late 1970s.
In this comprehensive show, the Georgian artist’s spare sculptural works emanate a sense of disconnection, disruption and dislocation.
Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Alberta Whittle and other artists from the African diaspora consider how identity and collective history impact individuals’ relationships with the environment.
A post-apocalyptic landscape or an abandoned toolshed? This compact exhibition, by ceramics sculptor Gillian Lowndes, inspires the mind to wander.
This show looks at how Sargent styled his sitters, insisting they wore certain garments or rearranging them, using fashion as a tool to reveal their personalities.
A career-spanning exhibition of drawings and watercolours shows the elusive modernist at his most direct.
