Recycled jute coffee bags, plastic pizza and a heap of wet wipes – for Iceland’s Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Birgisdóttir takes a wry look at our consumerist society and the mixed messages we absorb subliminally.
In the gardens of Castle Howard, north Yorkshire, Tony Cragg talks about his different sculptural series and the juxtapositions, links and contrasts they bring to the stately home’s permanent collection, architecture and landscape.
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This vast and varied show celebrating the work of indigenous artists from North and South America, Oceania, and the Nordic region is a joy.
His practice centres on journeys exploring the region where he was raised and lives as he attempts to capture the passage between present and past, between remembering and forgetting.
This enveloping Gesamtkunstwerk is a multifarious evocation of political resistance that does not make the mistake of disregarding the audience’s pleasure.
This long overdue look at the life and work of Hoyningen-Huene, a master of photography, combines intriguing insights into the Paris fashion world of the 1930s and beyond, with his pictures of timeless beauty, previously unpublished photographs and private letters.
Shani’s interest in alternate worlds and modes of existence shines through in this surreal exhibition responding to the setting of Charles Jencks-designed Cosmic House.
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This show brings Caravaggio’s last known painting to London, along with documents telling its story, and revealing a little more about the mysterious last months of its troubled and hugely influential creator.
This biennial touring exhibition presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists. The result is a visually and sensually intriguing show.
This richly written and sensitive work traces Mackintosh’s masterpiece from the building’s inception, through its two devastating fires, in 2014 and 2018, to its current reconstruction.
This not-to-be-missed exhibition includes a lifetime of Lijn’s works, providing new insights into her artistic vision and capacity to bridge the human and the technological in an elegant and affective fashion.
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.
