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  • When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels
    Institutional Exhibition

    When We See Us – A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Chris Ofili, at Bozar, Brussels

    February 3 2025 On view 7 February-10 August 2025, this exhibition of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day features... Read More
  • Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature travels to Lightbox Gallery, Woking
    Institutional Exhibition

    Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature travels to Lightbox Gallery, Woking

    February 1 2025 This Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition (on view at Lightbox Gallery, 1 February–8 June 2025) showcases the artist’s printmaking practice, taking a deep look into the literary influences that have inspired Rego’s work. Read More
  • Curator Hilton Als talks to Wallpaper* about At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
    Interview

    Curator Hilton Als talks to Wallpaper* about At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World

    January 31 2025 ‘Ultimately what I loved about these “queer” pictures is what I love throughout her art: empathy devoid of sentimentality.’ Read More
  • Khalif Tahir Thompson: Cherry at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
    Institutional Exhibition

    Khalif Tahir Thompson: Cherry at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

    January 31 2025 Khalif Tahir Thompson's first institutional solo exhibition in the United States (31 January–24 August 2025), features eight large-scale paintings that... Read More
  • At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World reviewed in The Times
    Review

    At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World reviewed in The Times

    January 30 2025 ★★★★ 'And this is Neel's skill, quite apart from her ingenious use of colour (her skins are superb, flaws and all) and keen observation. She draws out the person, gives them life on the canvas.' Read More
  • Barbara Walker talks to AnOther about her major exhibition Being Here
    Interview

    Barbara Walker talks to AnOther about her major exhibition Being Here

    January 29 2025 ‘I Was Trying to Deal With the Trauma’ – the artist discusses her work with art historian, curator and writer Alayo Akinkugbe. Read More
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard’s essay on Celia Paul features in The New Yorker
    Profile

    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s essay on Celia Paul features in The New Yorker

    January 27 2025 '...it is the paintings that I remember, and the feelings they left in me. Of course this is so, because they depicted presence — of the past, of the painter, of the tree — and what you have once been close to stays with you.' Read More
  • Conrad Shawcross features in Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe at Lakeside Arts’ Djanogly Gallery
    Institutional Exhibition

    Conrad Shawcross features in Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe at Lakeside Arts’ Djanogly Gallery

    January 20 2025 The exhibition (25 January–27 April 2025) features two large kinetic sculptures by Shawcross that investigate the early universe, black holes,... Read More
  • Art Review selects At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World as one of its exhibitions to see in January
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    Art Review selects At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World as one of its exhibitions to see in January

    January 6 2025 ’For Alice Neel, her practice of painting people from many walks of life, from neighbours to writers, performers, artists, politicians and activists – friends and strangers – led her to share this intimate space with a dizzyingly diverse range of subjects.’ – Louise Benson. The exhibition opens in London on 30 January. Read More
  • New publication – Idris Khan: Repeat After Me
    Publication News

    New publication – Idris Khan: Repeat After Me

    December 10 2024 Published by Hatje Cantz with texts by David Carrier and Marcelle Polednik , this new book is a comprehensive journey... Read More
  • The Art Newspaper features Barbara Walker: Being Here
    Review

    The Art Newspaper features Barbara Walker: Being Here

    November 29 2024 ‘Barbara Walker's show at the Whitworth makes me feel proud to be Black British’ – Chibundu Onuzo Read More
  • Ali Banisadr in conversation with Orhan Pamuk for Cultured
    Interview

    Ali Banisadr in conversation with Orhan Pamuk for Cultured

    November 27 2024 'A painter, after all, takes the time to study their subject, to break it apart and put it back together, layer by layer. Pamuk's way of writing felt like that to me — always observing, always questioning, always rearranging things until they made sense in a new way.' Read More
  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Malcolm Washington in Cultured
    Interview

    Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Malcolm Washington in Cultured

    November 18 2024 For Cultured's inaugural Artists on Artists issue, the painter and filmmaker met in Los Angeles to discuss what it takes to make a work of art that stops you in your tracks. Read More
  • The World of Interiors Previews María Berrío: The End of Ritual
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    The World of Interiors Previews María Berrío: The End of Ritual

    November 16 2024 'These somewhat restless images are an attempt to grapple with a new world order, one that has largely done away with forms of human connection and ceremony on which we relied for so long.' Read More
  • The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Institutional Exhibition

    The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to Philadelphia Museum of Art

    November 5 2024 Curated by Ekow Eshun and organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition (on view in Philadelphia 9 November... Read More
  • Paula Rego features in Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists at the Freud Museum
    Institutional Exhibition

    Paula Rego features in Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists at the Freud Museum

    October 30 2024 Highlighting the women who helped Freud invent psychoanalysis and their legacy in its practice — as well as in the... Read More
  • MICAS opens to the public, featuring works across the site by Conrad Shawcross
    Institutional Exhibition

    MICAS opens to the public, featuring works across the site by Conrad Shawcross

    October 29 2024 Works on view include The Dappled Light of the Sun, located outside the entrance to the museum, and three Beacons... Read More
  • Alex Hartley’s new commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
    Institutional Exhibition

    Alex Hartley’s new commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

    October 19 2024 The work is on view as part of Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape, a major group exhibition (19 October 2024–23 February... Read More
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: L’Addition at Musée d’Orsay
    Institutional Exhibition

    Elmgreen & Dragset: L’Addition at Musée d’Orsay

    October 14 2024 On view from 15 October 2024, this major architectural intervention in the museum's grand hall features new figurative sculptures, several of which are inspired by the museum's collections of nineteenth century art. Read More
  • Two paintings by Paula Rego are now on display at No.10 Downing Street
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    Two paintings by Paula Rego are now on display at No.10 Downing Street

    October 14 2024 Two scenes from Rego's mural Crivelli’s Garden (1990-91) have replaced portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. Read More
  • Elmgreen & Dragset sit down with Josh Spero at the Financial Times
    Interview

    Elmgreen & Dragset sit down with Josh Spero at the Financial Times

    October 12 2024 'We say we dress up the white cube in drag. It temporarily gets another identity in order to perform a different role . . .' Read More
  • Victoria Miro at Frieze Masters with a solo presentation of works by Adriana Varejão
    Art Fair

    Victoria Miro at Frieze Masters with a solo presentation of works by Adriana Varejão

    October 9 2024 A rare opportunity in London to see a comprehensive selection of works by one of the most original and significant voices in contemporary Brazilian art. Read More
  • Frieze profiles Barbara Walker
    Profile

    Frieze profiles Barbara Walker

    October 3 2024 Jamila Abdel-Razek meets an artist redefining portraiture and amplifying Black representation in British art. Read More
  • The Guardian interviews Barbara Walker
    Interview

    The Guardian interviews Barbara Walker

    September 30 2024 As her hard-hitting works go on show in Manchester, the Midlands-based artist reveals to Amelia Gentleman the emotional toll of making such political, personal work. Read More
  • The Times reviews Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya
    Review

    The Times reviews Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya

    September 26 2024 ★★★★ 'Exposing the primal, the perverse, the forbidden, these artists distil a brooding atmosphere of menace.' – Rachel Campbell Johnston Read More
  • Grayson Perry: A Temple for Everyone at Charleston in Lewes
    Institutional Exhibition

    Grayson Perry: A Temple for Everyone at Charleston in Lewes

    September 23 2024 Featuring textiles, ceramics and woodcuts, the exhibition (25 September 2024–2 March 2025) tells stories of home, asking questions about how... Read More
  • On view at MCA Australia – Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die)
    Institutional Exhibition

    On view at MCA Australia – Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die)

    September 23 2024 On view 27 September 2024–16 February 2025, Isaac Julien’s mesmerising and immersive five-screen black-and-white installation film explores the relationship and... Read More
  • The Telegraph reviews Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
    Review

    The Telegraph reviews Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE

    September 23 2024 ★★★★★ ‘This show is pop-making brilliance; the radiance of Kusama’s consciousness reaches out to tickle the mind of the viewer with levity and humour.’ – Evgenia Siokos Read More
  • The Wallace Collection announces a major exhibition by Grayson Perry as part of its 2025 programme
    Institutional Exhibition

    The Wallace Collection announces a major exhibition by Grayson Perry as part of its 2025 programme

    September 19 2024 On view 28 March–26 October 2025, to mark his 65th birthday, Perry will create and curate a new exhibition at... Read More
  • Flora Yukhnovich: Into the Woods at Ordrupgaard, Denmark
    Institutional Exhibition

    Flora Yukhnovich: Into the Woods at Ordrupgaard, Denmark

    September 18 2024 The works in this exhibition (18 September 2024–19 January 2025) are themed around the fête galante – a genre of painting depicting the wealthy at amorous play in parkland settings that came to prominence with Rococo artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau and was later revived and reinterpreted by Impressionists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot. Read More
  • Doug Aitken: Naked City opening at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
    Institutional Exhibition

    Doug Aitken: Naked City opening at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul

    September 11 2024 This monographic exhibition (14 September 2024-17 August 2025) invites visitors to the world of Aitken’s mastery in utilising various mediums to create immersive artworks that mirror the rhythm of the environment around them. Read More
  • Flora Yukhnovich talks to Studio International about Wallace Collection presentation
    Interview

    Flora Yukhnovich talks to Studio International about Wallace Collection presentation

    September 6 2024 'My works are paintings, so they are naturally historical things. But I exist now [...] so, I’m always looking at history through a kaleidoscope of contemporary references.' Read More
  • Do Ho Suh is interviewed by ArtReview
    Interview

    Do Ho Suh is interviewed by ArtReview

    September 4 2024 The artist reflects on the ideas and processes that feature in Speculations, on view at Art Sonje Center until 3 November 2024. Read More
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
    Institutional Exhibition

    Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul

    September 3 2024 Featuring over 60 works within five immersive installations — a full-scale family house, a public pool, a restaurant with an adjacent kitchen, and an artist's studio—this exhibition (3 September 2024–23 February 2025) marks the duo's most extensive presentation in Asia to date. Read More
  • Do Ho Suh talks to the Financial Times
    Interview

    Do Ho Suh talks to the Financial Times

    August 29 2024 The artist imagines a bridge between the US, UK and South Korea in his current exhibition, Speculations, at Art Sonje Center in Seoul. Read More
  • Paula Rego: Power Games at Kunstmuseum Basel
    Institutional Exhibition

    Paula Rego: Power Games at Kunstmuseum Basel

    August 29 2024 This comprehensive exhibition (28 September 2024–2 February 2025), the first major presentation of Rego’s work in Switzerland, features paintings and... Read More
  • ‘The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country:’ Shahzia Sikander in The Washington Post
    News Story

    ‘The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country:’ Shahzia Sikander in The Washington Post

    July 30 2024 'As the artist who created the work, I have chosen not to repair it. I want to leave it beheaded, for all to see. The work is now a witness to the fissures in our country.' Read More
  • Publication News

    New publication – Clare Woods: As I Please

    July 25 2024 Published by Art/Books, Clare Woods: As I Please presents all of the artist’s most important paintings of the past decade,... Read More
  • Do Ho Suh: Speculations at Art Sonje Center, Seoul
    Institutional Exhibition

    Do Ho Suh: Speculations at Art Sonje Center, Seoul

    July 24 2024 On view 17 August–3 November 2024, the exhibition provides an overview of the Speculations series, which the artist has been working on since 2005. Read More
  • Do Ho Suh: In Process at Moody Center for the Arts
    Institutional Exhibition

    Do Ho Suh: In Process at Moody Center for the Arts

    July 17 2024 The first presentation of its kind by Do Ho Suh (on view 6 September–21 December 2024) forgoes the formalities of... Read More
  • Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 20 March–11 August 2024). Isaac Julien, Once Again… (Statues Never Die), 2022; in back: Matthew Angelo Harrison, Dark Silhouette: Borrowed Inlets – Dogon, 2018; Matthew Angelo Harrison, Dark Silhouette: Enduring Bond, 2019. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
    Review

    Alex Greenberger reviews Isaac Julien installations at MoMA and the Whitney Museum, on view in New York

    July 12 2024 'In all three, he takes up storied figures of Black history, resisting history lessons and clichés in the process.' Read More
  • Shahzia Sikander talks to The New York Times about vandalisation of Witness
    News Story

    Shahzia Sikander talks to The New York Times about vandalisation of Witness

    July 9 2024 'I don’t want to "repair" or conceal. I want to "expose," leave it damaged. Make a new piece, and many more.' Read More
  • The Time is Always Now, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to The Box, Plymouth
    Institutional Exhibition

    The Time is Always Now, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili, travels to The Box, Plymouth

    June 29 2024 Curated by Ekow Eshun and organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition (on view in Plymouth 29 June–29 September 2024) showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. Read More
  • The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, featuring Stan Douglas, travels to Cincinnati Art Museum
    Institutional Exhibition

    The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, featuring Stan Douglas, travels to Cincinnati Art Museum

    June 28 2024 In the wake of hip hop’s 50th anniversary, the Cincinnati Art Museum hosts this groundbreaking exhibition exploring the genre’s extraordinary influence on contemporary society over the past two decades. On view 28 June–29 September 2024. Read More
  • Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song – on view in Edinburgh
    Institutional Exhibition

    Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song – on view in Edinburgh

    June 28 2024 Chris Ofili's major tapestry with Dovecot Studios returns to Scotland this summer. The Caged Bird's Song, commissioned by The Clothworkers' Company, is shown in the context of the tapestry studio where the work was created. Read More
  • Waldemar Januszczak reviews Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection
    Review

    Waldemar Januszczak reviews Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection

    June 16 2024 ‘…there are hints of giant rococo fruit and a sense, too, of figures flying through the sky. But who, what and where are withheld. It’s a poem of moods…’ Read More
  • Flora Yukhnovich is interviewed by the Financial Times
    Interview

    Flora Yukhnovich is interviewed by the Financial Times

    June 14 2024 The artist talks to Jan Dalley about reimagining the Rococo at the Wallace Collection. Read More
  • Artforum commends Isaac Julien in its review of the Whitney Biennial
    Review

    Artforum commends Isaac Julien in its review of the Whitney Biennial

    June 13 2024 ‘In one of the Biennial’s standout works, Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), 2022, Julien seems keenly aware that any encounter with the historical past is invariably a double-sided affair, with the present inevitably reinterpreting the past as much as the past might seek to guide the present.’ – Andrew V. Uroskie Read More
  • Flora Yukhnovich talks to British Vogue ahead of new works going on view at The Wallace Collection
    Interview

    Flora Yukhnovich talks to British Vogue ahead of new works going on view at The Wallace Collection

    May 30 2024 Hayley Maitland meets the artist in her London studio to discuss her new paintings, on view at The Wallace Collection from 5 June 2024. Read More
  • Idris Khan: Repeat After Me is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail
    Interview

    Idris Khan: Repeat After Me is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail

    May 29 2024 ‘There’s a meditative atmosphere enveloping the assembled works.’ – Tom McGlynn Read More
  • The small perfection of flower painting – Clare Woods is featured in The Financial Times
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    The small perfection of flower painting – Clare Woods is featured in The Financial Times

    May 28 2024 'Her sensuous, richly coloured paintings are starkly contemporary yet also speak to the sumptuous studies Édouard Manet made...' — Clare Coulson Read More
  • On view at MoMA – Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour
    Institutional Exhibition

    On view at MoMA – Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour

    May 19 2024 On view 19 May–28 September 2024, Isaac Julien’s immersive portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Read More
  • Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at the Wallace Collection
    Institutional Exhibition

    Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at the Wallace Collection

    May 18 2024 From 5 June, paintings by the artist will temporarily replace two works by François Boucher at the top of the grand staircase on the landing of Hertford House. Read More
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