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Friedrich Kunath on pushing paint and why he loves the ‘empty promise’ of Los Angeles
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Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters inspires architect Julius Taminiau’s Dutch monument to rural life
The Potato Shed, a family house built on the site of a former farm, is a contemporary response to agricultural architecture and the landscape of The Netherlands, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s austere 1885 painting
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Sarah Crowner binds painting and performance in her vibrant stitched canvases
Hong Kong’s Simon Lee Gallery debuts new works by the Brooklyn-based artist in ‘Paintings for the Stage’
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Never-before-exhibited watercolours by Steven Holl go on display in Milan
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How American legend Ellsworth Kelly mastered colour and shape
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The much-anticipated Saatchi Yates gallery opens its doors in London
The new Saatchi Yates gallery in Mayfair promises a programme of emerging global talent. First up, Swiss artist Pascal Sender's AR-driven works. Watch the interview with the artist on our Instagram Stories here.
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Cecilia Vicuña unveils monumental Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
As Cecilia Vicuña opens her long-awaited Hyundai commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, (titled Brain Forest Quipu and on view until 16 April 2023), we revisit our recent interview with the Chilean artist, poet and activist
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Jeff Koons is putting a new shine on the Ashmolean
The opinion-dividing master of the modern readymade is at the centre of a newly opened exhibition at the Oxford museum
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At home with Calder: the artist’s hidden knack for domestic design
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Artist turns iconic football shirts into abstract art
Can football shirts be art? Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf tackles the worlds of painting and football in a new book, Paintings League, published by Hatje Cantz
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Five African artists demonstrating creative resilience in challenging times
As the world is forced to embrace new social distancing measures, we look at how five very different African artists are finding creative solace in solitude
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NY’s Jewish Museum spotlights the creative legacy of Roberto Burle Marx
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‘Mother!’: artists interpret the many facets of motherhood in Denmark show
Fertility, sacrifice and surveillance are just some themes examined in the group show ‘Mother!’, at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, coinciding with Mother’s Day 2021
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The hidden Le Corbusier connection in Peter Doig’s landmark painting
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Korean resort Paradise City unveils new art space with museum-worthy collection
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How a hashtag caused a surge of optimism for artists on Instagram
The #artistsupportpledge movement was created just two weeks ago but has since helped thousands of artists to sell their work in a landscape of instability. Here's how it happened, and why it might be here to stay
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Frank Bowling cements his status as a modern master with Tate Britain retrospective
After six decades, the British artist is finally getting his dues as a gently dazzling survey of his paintings opens in London
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A new 60s-inspired book captures the rarest colours in the world
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Julian Schnabel riffs on Rodin at his first West Coast show in three decades
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‘I just didn’t fit’: feminist icon Judy Chicago on revolutionising art history
At the de Young Museum, San Francisco, American feminist artist Judy Chicago staged her first ever retrospective. We spoke to the artist about her epic career, filled with patriarchal battles, fierce self-belief, and a lot of smoke
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In Brussels, Titus Kaphar recasts the figures in Renaissance Christian art
In a deconsecrated church in Brussels, American painter Titus Kaphar confronts representation in Renaissance iconography. Here, we offer a virtual walkthrough of the artist’s solo show, ‘The Evidence of Things Unseen’
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Jean-Michel Basquiat meets Egon Schiele in parallel Paris retrospectives
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As Paris begins to reopen, Perrotin introduces a series of spirited cooperative exhibitions
In the name of solidarity, Perrotin has invited 26 Parisian galleries to take part in four consecutive presentations in its Saint-Claude space
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Sean Scully on self-belief, election billboards and the perils of rural Germany
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction and doing ‘the biggest stretch in the history of the art world’
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Fabienne Verdier: the painter reimagining Cézanne country
For a decade, Fabienne Verdier lived in China studying under Huang Yuan, a Sichuanese calligraphy master and landscape painter. Now, back in her native France, the abstract artist is following in the footsteps of another master as three leading institutions in Aix-en-Provence open major exhibitions tracing her journey, from a nomadic artist’s workshop to paintings recently created in the landscape immortalised by Cézanne
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A definitive Cy Twombly retrospective reasserts his status as a modern master
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Painting architecture: Tommy Fitzpatrick’s fractured modernist visions
Tommy Fitzpatrick’s new series of electric-hued architectural paintings capture the American artist's 30-year fascination with modernism
