Articles

October 2, 2024

The House on the Corner

September 30, 2024

Paving the Way for Emerging Talent

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September 9, 2024

Hide Me in Your Belly

Yu Ji at Centro Pecci

September 5, 2024

Pennungal: Lives of women and girls

Sosa Joseph at David Zwirner

August 27, 2024

NEITHER GIVE NOR THROW AWAY

Sophie Calle at Rencontres d’Arles

August 22, 2024

MORTAL SURFACE

Cudelice Brazelton IV at Kunsthalle Lingen

August 18, 2024

One for sorrow, two for joy

A video exhibition curated by Lauren Auder and special guests

Staub (Störung)

Maren Karlson at Soft Opening

On Feeling

An exhibition at The Approach

Gallerina

Beatrice Bonino at Galerie Molitor, Berlin

Painting Not Painting

Stefan Brüggeman and Bruce Nauman at Gathering, Ibiza

Newspapers, Orgasms, and Front Doors

Diamond Stingily at 52 Walker

Going Down, Raw and Ruinous

Esther Gatón and Darya Diamond at Pauline Perplexe, Paris

Gut-Wrenching Sinthomes

Mire Lee and the Aesthetics of Affect

Basel's Underground Art Fair

June Art Fair, 2024

‘No questions.’

Robert Frost on Ghislaine Leung

Rethinking the Vitrine in an Ethnographic Museum

‘Exposure’ at MUDEC, Milan

Art as a Feast of Contemplation

Sabrina Roman on Lorenza Longhi

Entering the Liminal

Emanuel de Carvalho at Gathering London

The Semiotics of Shopping

Olivia Allen on Hanna Stiegeler

Survival Spell

Anne Hardy at Maureen Paley

Ariadne's Thread

Robert Frost on Miriam Stoney

Exploring Voices

'Word of Mouths' at Mare Karina

Vampire Junkie

Accelerationist Aesthetics at Rose Easton

Each now, is the time, the space

A group exhibition with Leonor Antunes, Alexandre da Cunha, Rhea Dillon, and Veronica Ryan

Six Large Drawings

Chris Hayes on Richard Serra

Misconstructary

Leo Fitzmaurice at The Sunday Painter

When the Lambs Rise Up Against the Bird of Prey

Andrew Key on Precious Okoyomon

These Artists are Creating a Space for Themselves in a Shrinking World

‘Present Tense’ at Hauser & Wirth

Hearts Mission

Maggie Lee’s Appetite to Dream

Painterly Constellations

Minsuh Kang on Monika Baer

Tracing

Stephanie Comilang at TBA21 Madrid

‘Maybe my fairy-tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK.’

Olivia Allen on Ruby Dickson

Shifting Perspectives: Jane Harris's Elliptic Portals

An intimate journey through the abstract landscapes crafted by the British artist Jane Harris - “Ellipse” - curated by Freeny Yianni and displayed at the Frac MÉCA (Bordeaux)

February 16, 2024

Afterlives

Marietta Mavrokordatou on Marina Xenofontos

February 7, 2024

“Bitches be Bingeing”

Robert Frost on Skylar Haskard

January 22, 2024

Cooking Slowly

Ian Waelder at Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani

December 4, 2023

Human First, Artist Second

Lee Lozano at La Bourse de Commerce

November 3, 2023

Taking Stock

Richard Prince at Gagosian

October 5, 2023

Remote Control

Nina Hartmann at Silke Lindner

September 14, 2023

Sholto Blissett

Arboreal at Peres Projects Milan

August 30, 2023

Ambera Wellmann's Antipoem

At the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann transports us into otherworldly realms, bridging the gap between ancestral pasts and unpredictable futures, where any norm is dissected and reexamined, primarily through the lens of imagination.

August 22, 2023

When No One is Around, Dance Gracefully

Dayou Geng at ShanghART gallery M50, Shanghai

The legality of borders: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 45th Parallel

Allow Cookies at Kupfer

Allow Cookies is a group exhibition exploring the tension between manipulation and desire, inaugurating Kupfer’s new exhibition space on Scrutton Street in Shoreditch, London.

BODY LANGUAGE

Leon Scott-Engel’s ‘Handle With Care’ at Pipeline, London

THE MAIN COURSE

Magali Reus at Centre d'Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme

Craig Kauffman - Constructed Paintings 1973 - 1976

Craig Kauffman's constructed paintings were particularly influential in the development of post-minimalism, which sought to move beyond the strict formalism of minimalism and explore more conceptual and experiential aspects of art.

It loves me, it loves me not

Jaylon Israel Hicks, Gothica at Maximillian William

The perseverance of the feminine: Patricia Hurl’s Irish Gothic

The artist’s first retrospective institutional show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is filled with figures of the past; imbued with the traces that trauma leaves behind.

February 17, 2023

Diving into the Obscure

‘A Gift to the Dark’, at Vin Vin, Vienna presents an intriguing ensemble of works from 8 artists which, through different techniques, mediums and subject matters, explore’s Freud’s ‘Unheimlich’, offering a glimpse into the human experience and the strangeness of the subconscious.

February 12, 2023

Art as gut reaction

The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue at The Approach, East London

January 31, 2023

Grotto

Walking into Stanislava Kovalcikova’s current show at the revered Belvedere 21 in Vienna on a remarkably bright winters day, one can have an almost out of body experience.

January 15, 2023

Meaning’s Loose Ends: Fern O’Carolan’s You’ll Never Get to Heaven at No Gallery

January 4, 2023

The ashes of elusive time

A look inside the intriguing ceramics of Alma Berrow

December 9, 2022

“Polychrome claustrophobia, an essay on Karin Kneffel’s portraiture” by Chris Hayes

“When I paint, I always paint with what already exists against what already exists.”

November 17, 2022

Somaya Critchlow - Afternoon’s Darkness

In Somaya Critchlow’s new show Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximilian William in London, her painted figures have settled into domestic settings that feel deeply ambiguous. It’s something to do with the quality of the light she creates, which exudes the eerie liminality of dusk or dawn.

October 21, 2022

Horizons

A conversation with Stijn Cole, in Ghent

October 4, 2022

The morning after

A conversation with Peter Buggenhout in Madrid

September 29, 2022

Mark Grotjahn’s Waking Formalism

I called some paintings “perspectives” but I’m not interested in perspective; I called some “butterflies” but I don’t think they are butterflies; I call my sculptures “masks” but they are not masks. — Mark Grotjahn

September 2, 2022

Shannon Cartier Lucy, the self-aware painter

An intimate coversation with Lorraine de Thibault

October 1, 2022

Altering conditions: After Work by Céline Condorelli at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Using installation, print, film, drawing, objects and sound, Céline Condorelli explores the politics of display, the future of work, the conditions of how we work together and its relationship to leisure, play and the technology of colour.

Alma, Alma, Alma: Soshiro Matsubara’s Golden Sorrow at Union Pacific

Golden Sorrow at Union Pacific, London, is the latest in a series of presentations that imaginatively explores an impassioned love affair between two artists in the mid-twentieth century by Japanese, Berlin-based artist, Soshiro Matsubara.

The late-night hours will make you wonder.

Private Ceremonies, Diane Dal-Pra's first solo show at Massimo De Carlo gallery, is a tale of contrasts, told through a poetic examination of our relationship with objects and the implications of latent states of consciousness.

Yellow saddles at the ready

The Artist Room by Taymour Grahne Projects presents Grace Mattingly’s first solo exhibition "Yellow Horses" in which the tame and wild live side-by-side

January 27, 2022

Clyde

A review of Stephen Polatch's solo exhibition at Soft Opening, London

October 8, 2021

False shadows and nonreflecting mirrors

A walk through Christopher Page’s solo exhibition at Ben Hunter

Modelling the Flesh

Body Topographies at Lehmann Maupin

WHAT DO YOU CALL A SECOND, WHEN IT MOVES LIKE LAVA ?

Burned against the rear fender at Lehmann + Silva

December 7, 2020

Matthew Barney: Mythology, Astronomy and Hunting

Cosmic Hunt – an exhibition both online and in the gallery – presents the artist’s ideas as a network, a crucial response to a new mode of pandemic-induced connectivity

November 10, 2020

What music says about the gallery: Toyin Ojih Odutola and Peter Adjaye at The Barbican

Whether it’s a soundtrack which directly responds to the artwork or the space, or a gallery employee’s Drake-heavy Spotify playlist, music in the gallery has a transformative effect on the visual display which, in the case of the former, can aim to dismantle the paradigm of the exhibition.

September 22, 2020

Looking at corners

As with all symbols, the the image of the corner (the corner of a room, or the corner of a box) has a complex politics, which apparently allows for 800 words solely about corners

September 7, 2020

Ella Kruglyanskaya: is it intimacy?

Lockdown stretched the capacity for art to induce a yearning for intimacy, all the way from Thomas Dane Gallery to BBC drama 'Normal People'

August 27, 2020

Ewa Juszkiewicz: a harsh incorporation of history

The influences of any work of art are often the first port of call when it comes to analysing them. So, what happens when those influences – the incorporation of historical ideas of painting – are so blatantly included that the image becomes oddly familiar and unfamiliar at once?