London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower
12 October 2016 • Syndicate
British Museum’s American Dream will touch on many of the themes in the turbulent presidential election
Tag: culture
Frieze art fair 2016 review: Everyone’s a performer in the boozy, fruity house of fun
7 October 2016 • Syndicate
From the crocheted loo seats to the pram-cum-barbecue and roving wet bar, there are stunts and stage-props galore. Then you turn a corner and find an artwork that sticks in your head and stays there
Frieze London 2016 to feature Julie Verhoeven lavatory intervention
21 September 2016 • Mark Westall
Political work on toilet attendants will be at fair alongside seminal 90s art from Wolfgang Tillmans and Richard Billingham
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
15 August 2016 • Mark Westall
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Pink Floyd’s psychedelic revolution will rock the V&A
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show
22 July 2016 • Syndicate
Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries
Ragnar Kjartansson review – a brilliant fusion of humour and sorrow
19 July 2016 • Syndicate
Barbican, London
Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson
Banksy stencils destroyed by construction workers
11 July 2016 • Mark Westall
Removal brings number of artist’s works wrecked in a single inner-city laneway to five in two years
Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern review – one long, strange trip
7 July 2016 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
This blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, awkward art compounds the cliches
REVIEW David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life – ‘We can feel Hockney’s deafness’
1 July 2016 • Syndicate
Royal Academy, London
The artist’s humorous portraits, all with the same yellow chair, are a superheated pageant of fashion and pattern
Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq’s head
18 June 2016 • Syndicate
The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
2 June 2016 • Mark Westall
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
REVIEW: Cindy Sherman – high-society selfies by quintessential postmodernist
31 May 2016 • Syndicate
The grotesqueness of haute couture and high society come alive in the self-portraits of one the most influential photo artists of the late 20th century
Where there’s muck: Artangel artist wraps Houses of Parliament in latex
25 May 2016 • Syndicate
Permission for artwork – the largest ever to be installed in Westminster Hall – took six years to obtain, and will showcase 200 years’ worth of dirt and dust
Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms; Maria Lassnig review – an embarrassment of riches
22 May 2016 • Syndicate
Tate Liverpool
The raw melodrama of Francis Bacon meets the humour and humanity of Maria Lassnig in this superb double bill
Grayson Perry creates huge phallus to represent bankers’ worldview
19 May 2016 • Syndicate
Artist says latest work, which is covered in banknotes and George Osborne’s image, was inspired by industry’s self-denial about gender bias
Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art
10 May 2016 • Syndicate
Once as famous and influential as Andy Warhol, the artist, who has died aged 85, fell into obscurity – but her enigmatic work is sure to be rediscovered and endure
Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict boozer
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
Vincent van Bot: the robots turning their hand to art
23 April 2016 • Syndicate
Twenty-six robots designed by students across the US will compete in an art contest that offers a glimpse into the creative potentials of artificial intelligence
Artist Roger Hiorns on course to bury Boeing 737 under Birmingham canalside
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
After filling a London council flat with crystals, the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplane
Olafur Eliasson: ‘It’s not just food being shared, but ideas’
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pew
Glasgow rules the waves
11 April 2016 • Mark Westall
From skateboarding clams and swimsuit performance art to QE3’s maiden voyage, Sarah McCrory’s Glasgow International 2016 festival programme is awash with freewheeling energy, but some big shows sink under their own weight
Revolution in the Making review – unspooling an alternative art history
23 March 2016 • Syndicate
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
In its enormous new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an inaugural exhibition comprised solely of sculptures by female artists, making a case that the classtic story of art after modernism is sexist and incomplete
Sterling Ruby: making it big
14 March 2016 • Syndicate
Paintings, flags, tapestries, ceramics, denim workwear … no wonder artist Sterling Ruby needs a two-acre studio. He talks about growing up on a farm, his manic drive, and being inspired by Henry Rollins’ gym shorts