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
27 June 2017 • Mark Westall
She put the shooting of her boyfriend on Facebook live. Now artist Luke Willis Thompson has turned Diamond Reynolds into a different kind of screen star
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
15 February 2017 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
Cities from the sky, cigarette still lifes and sunset drives … the German’s swirling show has got the lot – even a room to dance in
26 January 2017 • Mark Westall
The art at the Biennale de la Biche off Guadeloupe is set to disappear into the sea, thereby mirroring the futility and emptiness of elite events like Venice Biennale
15 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Design Museum, London
From next-gen mobility scooters to bloodstream nanobots, this pop-up exhibition explores how technology can better help an ageing population
7 December 2016 • Mark Westall
With his song It’s You, Turner-winning artist Martin Creed has made the perfect antidote to the commercialised positivity of Christmas
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
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
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
