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    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Ranjani Shettar’s nature-inspired sculpture at the Barbican, London

      Installations by the Indian sculptor hover harmoniously amid plant life — but with a warning about our need to respect the environment

      Artist Ranjani Shettar stands next to a conservatory palm tree, smiling
    • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Renaissance marriage portraits at the Holburne — the rise of the power couple

      An exhibition in Bath explores how Europe’s dynasties used paintings of their unions to express their wealth and influence

    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Cornelia Parker on art and the environment: ‘We have to act in every way we can’

      The artist’s new video combines her sharp eye for form with her heartfelt politics

      Artist Cornelia Parker, wearing a black striped top and her hair in a neat bob, sits at a kitchen table facing the camera
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Shahidul Alam: ‘Photography does things that words cannot do so effectively’

      He has experienced police torture in Bangladesh because of his work standing up for civil rights

      A bearded middle-aged south Asian man wearing an embroidered pink knee-length panjabi stands in a room with his arms folded, smiling gently
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Tinsel, lilies, Bowie and Lenin: the lavish yet austere art of Marc Camille Chaimowicz

      The artist’s show in Brussels foregrounds a gift for political critique among the noise of his installations

      The concrete floor of an art gallery with many objects scattered, including strings of fairy lights, a disco ball and a vase of lilies
    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Gwen John, Pallant House — painting herself into the picture

      An enlightening retrospective brings out the artist’s paradox of reticence and desire

      Painting of a woman with long dark hair seated in a wicker chair, reading a book
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      ReviewArts books
      Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller — visions of a very British shaman

      An art memoir that crackles with humour and anti-establishment rage

    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Isaac Julien: ‘You have to change the top brass’

      Ahead of a Tate survey of his work, the Londoner explains what is wrong with British film and what he prefers about the US

      A photo portrait of Isaac Julien in a suit and standing in front of a full-length blue curtain
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Alice Neel, Barbican — sharp portraits get under the skin

      The American artist offered intimate glimpses of friends and elevated the powerless

      ‘Rita and Hubert’ (1954)
    • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Curator Hammad Nasar: ‘What if all Turner’s best paintings were in Lahore?’

      His latest show in Coventry addresses difficult colonial histories with an alternative take on art in the UK

      A man sitting on a dark sofa with one leg cross over another semi-smiles in late-afternoon shadows
    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Ai Weiwei’s La Commedia Umana — a tribute to the ‘ultimate freedom’

      The dissident artist on his remarkable Venetian exhibition, his mortality, and the complicity of capitalism in China

      Black glass bones and skulls are articulated to form a many-headed beast
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Mondrian Evolution at Fondation Beyeler — a masterly line-up from the master of lines

      The show meticulously teases out how Piet Mondrian went from austere landscapes to revolutionary abstract art

      Oil painting of an irregular grid of blocks coloured yellow, red, blue, black and grey
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ObituaryClaes Oldenburg
      Claes Oldenburg, Pop artist, 1929-2022

      His supersized sculptures of spoons and ice cream cones combined consumerist pleasure and intellectual irreverence

      Claes Oldenburg at his exhibition, ‘Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties’, at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, Austria, in 2012
    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Heroes of abstract art at the Fondation Maeght challenge tyranny and turmoil

      The works of Calder, Fontana and Dubuffet stem from postwar despair but speak to today’s existential questions

      An abstract pattern of blues and black on a white background
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke on recovering Ukrainian stories suppressed by Russia

      The damage inflicted on works during the Soviet era is at the heart of the Tunisian-Ukrainian’s ‘Blindstrom’ project

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Gormley, Fontana and Scarpa in Venice — review: tranquil and transcendent

      An exhibition in a former Olivetti showroom collapses the boundaries between space and time, art and architecture

      A sculpture of a male human figure lying on its back is placed on a mosaic floor, viewed from above
    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Parmigianino at the Courtauld Gallery, London — miraculous master of drawing

      The Renaissance artist made his name with pictures perfect in every fine detail

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Venetians vent their anger at Biennale land takeover

      The historic Arsenale is being divided between the festival and the navy but locals deserve better

      A banner is draped over the side of a brdige in front of two small brick towers
    • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Carlo Crivelli — Renaissance master who challenged God

      Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery celebrates an artist who created his own universe by breaking pictorial and religious traditions

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      British Art Show 9 finds healing in troubled times

      The exhibition, now touring to Wolverhampton, draws on national scandals and personal struggles

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Bice Lazzari at the Estorick Collection — symphonies of the spheres

      This exhibition of the neglected abstractionist’s work reveals her minimalist rhythms and subtle grandeur

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy — a painter for our times

      The exhibition brilliantly explores the outrage, suffering and cruelty in his work, now more relevant than ever

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican — voices of persecuted poets

      The Indian artist summons haunting sounds to evoke her concern with freedom of speech

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Sutapa Biswas — a pioneering artist of exile, race and resistance

      Her show at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge draws on her family’s flight from India and the UK’s insular art world

    • Saturday, 18 December, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      The queer magic and rage of Derek Jarman

      Shows in Manchester and Southampton highlight the skill of his films and the friction of his paintings

      Shirtless people in sarongs wave torches as they walk around a man asleep on a bed on a beach
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