Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl
16 May 2017 • Syndicate
The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring
Tag: art and design
Crapumenta ! … Anger in Athens as the blue lambs of Documenta hit town
14 May 2017 • Syndicate
The Greek capital has been invaded by talking frogs, dyed lambs and marble tents. But many locals are furious at the ‘colonial attitudes’ of the German art extravaganza
Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
11 May 2017 • Syndicate
Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture and LSD-taking creatives
REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery
9 May 2017 • Syndicate
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The 73-year-old sculptor’s most significant show yet is a crowded game of associations, where skeletal megaphones spar with concrete clods. But is there space for us to play too?
Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
4 May 2017 • Syndicate
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art?
25 April 2017 • Syndicate
A new Australian exhibition suggests art was first made to attract mates, signal dangers or mimic nature. But this reduces a mysterious impulse to a biological drive
Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
24 April 2017 • Syndicate
Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
Don’t look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world
21 April 2017 • Syndicate
Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery
Magic black: Air-Ink, the art supplies made from vehicle pollution
10 April 2017 • Mark Westall
Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs next
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
8 April 2017 • Syndicate
Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice
Artist has once again found the underwater grotto in his mind where monsters live, making a fool out of all of us who lost faith
Ai Weiwei and Brook Andrew to headline 21st Biennale of Sydney
6 April 2017 • Syndicate
Japanese artistic director Mami Kataoka announces preliminary lineup of 21 artists, including Australians Yasmin Smith and George Tjungurrayi
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
4 April 2017 • Syndicate
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
Feminism doesn’t need more female statues – it needs political action
29 March 2017 • Mark Westall
Bulgarian artist Erka has rightly protested against Sofia’s total lack of statues of women by erecting her own pop-up versions. But permanent statues don’t advance feminism – they trap people in the past
Damien Hirst stakes all on his Venice treasure comeback show
28 March 2017 • Syndicate
The only thing certain about the artist’s secret exhibition is that he has a lot riding on it
Whitney Biennial 2017: Trump’s shadow looms over politically charged show
20 March 2017 • Mark Westall
A particularly biting set of pieces, including a Statue of Liberty holding up an unlit torch, help to symbolize an arts community raging against the president
Life at the sharp end: Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist
14 March 2017 • Syndicate
A stuntwoman and artist, this 20th-century trailblazer was slandered and robbed by her rivals. As a new exhibition assesses the history of British tattoos, we reappraise the life of a radical
Can .art domain give the art business an online boost?
13 March 2017 • Syndicate
Arts institutions now have the option of a new internet suffix which aims to offer greater intelligibility and authenticity and maybe help the art market
‘It is quite petrifying’: designer JW Anderson on his first exhibition
10 March 2017 • Syndicate
Landmark fashion meets great sculpture in the designer’s ambitious new show
A World View: John Latham; Speak review – a time-bending experience
6 March 2017 • Mark Westall
Serpentine Gallery; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
From proto-psychedelic film to book chewing, the hardcore conceptual art of John Latham continues to inspire
‘The cat in the coffin almost steals the show’ … the Deutsche Börse photography prize
3 March 2017 • Syndicate
Landscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
Desert X: the arid biennial that’s bringing land art to Coachella
28 February 2017 • Mark Westall
The likes of Doug Aitken have decamped to the outskirts of Palm Springs to exhibit large-scale works that challenge the history of the western expansion and appear along the route to a certain music festival
Damien Hirst gives first glimpse of new Venice art.
23 February 2017 • Syndicate
With mysterious underwater objects hinting at monsters and ancient civilisations – including a $4m Medusa – Damien Hirst could be about to reverse years of creative decline
Michael Andrews ’ The Colony Room I: Soho’s cultural history frozen in time
20 February 2017 • Syndicate
The artist captures bohemian heavyweights Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Henrietta Moraes enjoying a well-earned tipple