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Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office’s timber pavilion celebrates Indigenous histories
A sobering monument to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, In Absence is a collaboration between the contemporary artist and Melbourne-based studio for the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission
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Studio Swine launches living and breathing scientific sculpture at Eden Project
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Sabine Marcelis wins Wallpaper* Designer of the Year 2020
Between fountains for Fendi, donut-shaped rugs, and a takeover of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, Dutch-Kiwi designer Sabine Marcelis has widened the spectrum of what light, glass and resin can do
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Gillian Wearing keeps it in the family at Copenhagen’s National Gallery
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Christina Kruse’s miniature psychological playground
In her show, ‘Plasterheads’ Christina Kruse invites us into an intimate world where architecture and geometry meet the depths of the human psyche
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Prosthetics and sculpture: art meets medicine at the Henry Moore Institute
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Exhibition review: Damien Hirst’s greatest hits in formaldehyde
‘Natural History’ at Gagosian Britannia Street, London is the first-ever show dedicated to Damien Hirst’s iconic formaldehyde sculptures. Chopped-up sharks, flayed innards, six-limbed cows – why do we keep returning for another slice?
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In memoriam: Claude Lalanne (1924-2019)
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Step inside Chiharu Shiota’s doll’s house
In ‘Living Inside’ at Galerie Templon, Brussels, the Japanese artist cocoons dolls houses and miniature furniture in her signature thread
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Isamu Noguchi's unrealised playground design revealed in New York
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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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Body talk: YBA Sarah Lucas meets modern master Auguste Rodin
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‘Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra’: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi
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Flo Kasearu confronts domestic violence against women in Tallinn
The Estonian artist’s raw and urgent exhibition, ‘Cut Out of Life’ in Tallinn, offers a platform to domestic abuse survivors
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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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Annie Morris’ towering sculptures balance grief, hope and defiance
Annie Morris' forthcoming show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park will present a new series of gravity-defying stack sculptures that draw on personal tragedy and resilience
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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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Tom Sachs shapes a self-portrait through things, found and fabricated
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Laid bare: Elmgreen & Dragset create subversive massage parlour in Paris
In Paris, Perrotin’s Matignon gallery is transformed into an uncanny massage parlour in the hands of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset
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Emma Talbot explores Greek myth and femininity at Whitechapel Gallery
In ‘The Age/L’Età’, her Max Mara Art Prize show at Whitechapel Gallery, Emma Talbot imagines a reality where violence is overturned by resolution, nurtured by an elderly female protagonist
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At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão
we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York
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Art Basel Hong Kong recalibrates with a digital-only edition
Following the cancellation of its Hong Kong fair, Art Basel has bounced back with Online Viewing Rooms, where Asian art takes centre stage
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Concrete poetry: the architectural sculptures of David Umemoto
Canadian artist David Umemoto's new Folded Stone series – on view at Modern Shapes Gallery, Antwerp – uses Japanese kirigami to evoke postmodernist dreams
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Sheer will: Artist Do-Ho Suh’s ghostly fabric sculptures explore the meaning of home
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At home with Hew Locke
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
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Jes Fan: the artist probing the intersections of biology, identity and creativity
Multidisciplinary artist Jes Fan uses fungi, bacteria and hormones to produce thought-provoking sculptures that explore how art and biology come together to break down social constructs. This article originally appeared in the August 2022 Issue of Wallpaper*, on newsstands now and available to subscribers
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Tenant of Culture: the artist turning fast fashion into radical hybrid sculpture
Ahead of a major new installation at London’s Camden Art Centre, we speak to Tenant of Culture, whose art-meets-fashion practice dissects the darker sides of our material world
