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
Tag: Exhibitions
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
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
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
The Most Interesting Art Events to see in London this week
14 June 2016 • Staff
Jenny Judova from Art Map London hand picks ‘The Most Interesting Art Events ‘ to see in London this week.
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
Art things to see and do in May
16 May 2016 • Staff
Each month Jesc Bunyard chooses a handful of interesting events/films/exhibitions for you to visit.
Top Art Things To See and Do In April
8 April 2016 • Staff
Looking for things to do this month? Look no further, here are my recommendations
Where is London’s latest secret art space? Better ask your GP
4 March 2016 • Mark Westall
From Aleah Chapin’s super-sized greying nudes to Eduardo Paolozzi’s tender casts of his own hands, the art on show at the Royal College of General Practitioners is all flesh and blood and bones and sinew
Hieronymus Bosch – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
15 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
Curator of ‘show of the decade’ Goya exhibition prepares for poignant farewell
6 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Celebrated portrait exhibition is in its final week but a feature-length film will leave Xavier Bray with a permanent record of his ‘obsession’
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
Gilbert and George Banners review – art as undeniable as a punch in the face
26 November 2015 • Mark Westall
White Cube, London
For their eight-millionth exhibition, the naughty boys of art are showing Banners that could be slight and trite – but actually turn out to be nasty prophecies for our dreadful age
JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist’s London-Margate steamboat journey
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
Musicians prepare to battle like Bruce Lee at Institute of Contemporary Arts
19 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Experimental installation Enter the Dragon combines music and martial arts in project inspired by iconic mirror scene in 1973 Hollywood film
REVIEW: Ann Veronica Janssens – the artistic equivalent of an isolation tank
18 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Wellcome Collection, London
States of Mind is a fun installation of coloured mist that feels like swimming through a painting by Monet – but it is light entertainment, nothing more
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
Rob Ryan: ‘My art isn’t very edgy, but I’m not that kind of artist’
10 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photography
Evolution of sneakers explored at Brooklyn Museum exhibition
9 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen’s high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual runaround to chic statement
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei come together in Melbourne – with cats
6 July 2015 • Staff
National Gallery of Victoria will bring together 300 works by the poster boys of the American and Chinese centuries, plus a kids’ show about cats
Jackson Pollock, Ben Rivers, John Waters: this week’s new exhibitions
26 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Jackson Pollock | Ben Rivers | Taking Flight | Phyllida Barlow | In Search Of The Miraculous | John Waters | Station To Station
What happens to the Serpentine pavilions? Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee……
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?