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    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Residential
      Fantasy home: the Chelsea townhouse that reflected sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ psyche

      Our writer craves a similar Kunstkammer, or art room, that allows her to express herself

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Masterpiece London 2022
      Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

      Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

      Three items: a doll-shaped pendant; golden cast of a woman’s lips and chin; a golden circle with horns
    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Jo Ellison
      What do we want from a work of art?

      Art is the opportunity to have your optics ambushed; it should open doors to different worlds

    • Friday, 25 February, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Jenny Holzer on Louise Bourgeois — ‘She. Is. Bodacious’

      Holzer has curated a show of Bourgeois’ works in Basel, exploring trauma, anger and sex

      Projection reads: I want mastery, I want omnipotence
    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Louise Bourgeois — an artist trapped in her own skin

      The roiling depths of the sculptor’s psyche are explored alongside powerful works in a show at New York’s Jewish Museum

    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      How women artists reclaimed the female body

      From the staunchly realist to the abstract and surreal, two London exhibitions this summer go far beyond just nudes

    • Thursday, 5 July, 2018
      InterviewLife & Arts
      Sophie Calle: secrets hidden in plain sight

      The artist’s new works, installed at a Provence château, continue her fascination with confessions

      Sophie Calle
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Louise Bourgeois at MoMA — a stunning web of thematic threads

      New York exhibition reveals unsuspected layers beyond the famous spider sculptures

      Installation view of Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at MoMA, New York. Photo: Martin Seck
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Mass MoCA — a revelation round every corner

      The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has grown to become a contemporary art juggernaut

      James Turrell's 'Perfectly Clear (Ganzfeld)' (1991)
    • Friday, 2 December, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The Art Market: Miami sales and a ‘shopping channel’ for art

      Dealers arrived in Miami with low expectations, but many were pleased by early business

      Carl Cheng's 'Erosion Machine No. 3' (1969)  at Cherry and Martin, Art Basel Miami Beach
    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Frieze Art Fair, London — review

      The irresistible “Nineties” section cleverly sets the context for many of this year’s offerings

      'L'atelier d'artistes' at Hauser & Wirth, Frieze London
    • Sunday, 21 August, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      I Still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh — ‘Improbable loveliness’

      An exhibition that pursues a dreamlike course through its galleries

      William Eggleston's 'Untitled (Boy Asleep)' (1970-73)
    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The market for monumental art: who’s buying?

      Art Basel’s Unlimited sector displays work too large for most fairs. But who collects it?

      Tony Oursler’s 'template/variant/friend/stranger' (2014)
    • Friday, 20 May, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Interview: Frances Morris, Tate Modern’s first female director

      A Tate curator since 1988, she talks about the gallery’s giant new extension and her vision for the institution’s future

      Frances Morris
    • Monday, 9 May, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Mona Hatoum, Tate Modern, London, review — ‘Triumphant’

      The artist’s London show expresses the terrible beauty of unbelonging

      Mona Hatoum's 'Light Sentence' (1992). Photo: Philippe Migeat
    • Thursday, 14 April, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Tate Modern unveils launch plans for £260m extension

      June opening of Switch House will boost gallery space by 60% and visitor figures by 1m a year

      Tania Bruguera - Tatlin's Whispwe #5
    • Friday, 25 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      African-American artists paint it black in Hong Kong

      The work of two artists investigates the concept of blackness and their own lived ethnic experience

    • Friday, 18 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Met Breuer’s inaugural shows: the incomplete works

      The Metropolitan Museum’s new outpost opens to the public with a pair of contrasting exhibitions, both full of surprises

      Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Street in Auvers-sur-Oise’ (1890)
    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      Georgina Adam
      Big-money trophies obscure a mixed picture in the art market

      It seems the outside world is finally affecting the market, writes Georgina Adam

      Amedeo Modigliani's ‘Nu couché (Reclining Nude)’
    • Friday, 26 June, 2015
      Charlie Porter
      Flower to the people

      In Milan, fashion is all about the conversation piece

      From left: Gucci; Giorgio Armani; Marni; Bottega Veneta; Prada
    • Friday, 22 May, 2015
      Charlie Porter
      Pretty as a picture

      Designers often cite art as inspiration for their collections. But at what point does homage become rip-off?

      Sonia Delaunay’s ‘Prismes electriques’ (1914), and Junya Watanabe SS15
    • Sunday, 22 February, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Simone Rocha — London Fashion Week AW15 show report

      The sculptor Louise Bourgeois inspires soft subversion at Simone Rocha

      Simone Rocha, London Fashion Week AW15
    • Friday, 5 September, 2014
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions including Anthony Caro and Xu Bing
    • Wednesday, 17 July, 2013
      FT Photo DiaryWorld
      In the shadow of the ‘Spider Maman’ in Bilbao
    • Friday, 28 June, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Fibre optics

      Tapestry, cloth, wool: it’s everywhere. Fabric-based art is not just a female medium

      Ernesto Neto's 'Life is a River' (2012)
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