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
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
23 April 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
13 April 2017 • Staff
For her solo show at BLOCK 336, Sarah Roberts travels to the Costa del Sol, creating an all-enveloping five-dimensional monochromatic installation.
6 April 2017 • Staff
Sculptor Rebecca Ackroyd could be described as a millennial Rosemarie Trockel, discovering disparate materials with considered ease and strength of purpose
5 April 2017 • Syndicate
Sir John Soane’s Museum; Tate Britain, London
Marc Quinn’s sculptures reduce classicism to blunt desire, while Cerith Wyn Evans’s Tate commission is an illuminated blank
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
2 April 2017 • Tabish Khan
To put 6 Art exhibitions you can’t afford to miss.
30 March 2017 • Staff
British artist Samuel Zealey explores physicality and materiality through his large-scale sculpture practice that is based on a love of physics and engineering.
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
5 March 2017 • Tabish Khan
An interactive waterfall, a colourful corridor, plasticine kiss, a group show and East meets West.
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
23 February 2017 • Staff
Holly Hendry doesn’t do anything by halves.
12 February 2017 • Tabish Khan
A trippy tunnel, Bacon and Freud, Paris underground, contemporary Georgian and a starship trooper.
2 February 2017 • Staff
Marcelle Joseph interviews the German artist Sebastian Stöhrer to find out what drives his ceramic sculpture practice featuring vases of all shapes & sizes
19 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Models of five nominated artworks for Trafalgar Square installation go on display at National Gallery in London
15 January 2017 • Tabish Khan
Animal furniture, a derelict house, cork totems, mystical prints and a giant baby walker.
22 November 2016 • Staff
Carla Busuttil’s third solo show at Josh Lilley in London entitled The Super-Suburb Defence Authority touches on all of the ills that have infected South Africa since its colonial era.
21 November 2016 • Tabish Khan
Sunken treasures, movable paintings, felt shopping items, mechanical creations and a scrap metal menagerie.
26 October 2016 • Staff
Coco Crampton’s current solo show in London takes place in a bespoke jewellery store in Mayfair called Belmacz
23 October 2016 • Tabish Khan
Salt pans, nails, a firedrake, smartphones and fleshy flowers.
21 October 2016 • Staff
Due to unprecedented interest, their solo shows have been extended to 30th November so hurry over to Peckham to see James Capper’s EARTH MARKING EXPEDITION: Film, Mobile Sculpture, Component Parts and Shaun McDowell’s Navigator – new paintings from the studio in Redhill.
21 October 2016 • Mark Westall
Tate Liverpool
From the Fire Paintings to the works made with women’s bodies, this is a sublime homage to the visionary artist
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
3 October 2016 • Tabish Khan
Silver thread, a tunnel, massive steel sculptures, virtual reality and guano