5 June 2020 • Irene Machetti
This week I interview Daina Taimina, a Latvian mathematician, math historian, and artist. Born in Riga, Taimina is currently an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the US, where she uses crocheted models to teach hyperbolic geometry
11 July 2017 • Syndicate
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
1 June 2017 • Syndicate
For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing
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
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
27 April 2017 • Ben Austin
Venice Agendas 2017: The Contract. A programme of events in London, Venice, Margate and Folkestone.
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
28 April 2016 • Syndicate
In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estate
22 January 2016 • Staff
Smart-phone bound I get to visit a series of over 40 art locations and top up on my culture fix.
14 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Shia LaBeouf’s artworks have been dismissed as stunts and ripoffs – but he doesn’t care. The Hollywood star and his collective explain why they’re in Liverpool taking calls from the public
2 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
20 August 2015 • Staff
The young founders of #arthoe are encouraging people of colour to get creative while reclaiming the word ‘ho’. They talk about hashtag wars, their controversial name – and why it’s more than just a fad
18 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
12 March 2015 • Mark Westall
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
5 February 2015 • Staff
Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own game
10 May 2013 • Mark Westall
‘What have I sacrificed? A white Transit van. I had it crushed into a cube and turned into art’
29 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Decapitations, tooth-pullings, chargrillings … the lurid deaths of saints in paintings were what caught Michael Landy’s eye when he took over as artist-in-residence at the National Gallery. Charlotte Higgins visits his studio to play with his mechanised martyrs
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
15 April 2013 • Mark Westall
As a child he was mocked for his love of model railways. Now Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams is at the Venice Biennale with his tribute to amateur astronomists. Stuart Jeffries meets a champion of the hobbyist
10 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Liz Crow appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth dressed as a Nazi. This week, she’s living the most private part of her life in a gallery. Here she explains why
3 April 2013 • Mark Westall
When Hollywood stars like Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage started buying Marcel Dzama’s work, what did the Canadian artist do? Apply for a job at Walmart. He didn’t get it
27 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Fabrice Hyber has filled the Baltic with vegetable men, mini-weather systems and a salt mountain. Is he just trifling with us?
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
New York art provocateurs Bernadette Corporation tell Jason Farago the key to running a successful collective: dress for work, learn proper manners – and keep your hands to yourself
