Exhibitions

The last completed sculpture by Per Kirkeby takes shape in Provence

Per Kirkeby’s Brick Labyrinth has cropped up at Château la Coste, joining its extensive collection of works by Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel, Richard Serra, Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois. Hidden in the depths of the splendid property situated a stone’s...

Design / 1 week ago

From Hong Kong to Rome, the unmissable design exhibitions in November from around the globe

We’ve scoured the globe to find the most captivating, uncanny and memorable design exhibitions to see in 2018; from retrospectives and major blockbusters to thematic exhibitions and solo shows. So here’s our list of must-see design events this month... ‘Notturno...

Art / 25 Oct 2018

Berlinde De Bruyckere layers decay with intrigue in new sculptural works

A solo exhibition by Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere reveals two new bodies of sculptural work, which dominate the Rhoades and Bourgeois galleries of Hauser & Wirth Somerset. ‘Stages and Tales’ marks a new trajectory for the artist, who has...

Art / 24 Oct 2018

Laurie Simmons unpacks domestic ideals and the American dream in US retrospective

In the 1970s, Laurie Simmons made ends meet as an artist by working as a photographer for a dollhouse miniature company. There she began to photograph the dolls and toys for her own work, unpacking gender relationships, the domestic ideal...

Art / 23 Oct 2018

Joan Jonas and Art Labor drink in Vietnamese coffee culture at Carnegie International

Once America’s industrial heartland, Pittsburgh – like many of its neighbouring Rust Belt cities including Detroit and Cleveland – had to reinvent itself in the past decades to address economical decline and depopulation. Today, the Steel City is maybe best...

Installation view of Gucci The Artist is Present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai

Fashion / 19 Oct 2018

Gucci and Maurizio Cattelan explore the power of appropriation in Shanghai show

The Artist is Present – this time in Shanghai with Italian artist-cum-curator Maurizio Cattelan and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, who have come together with 37 fellow artists from both China and throughout the world. But those expecting a re-run of Marina Abramović’s...

Art / 17 Oct 2018

Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura faces off with Old Masters in New York

In Yasumasa Morimura’s versions of Manet’s glorious canonical nude Olympia, the artist gazes stoically back at the camera, a carefully placed-hand demurely concealing his modesty, kicking off a pair of pink backless mules – much in the manner of Victorine...

Art / 16 Oct 2018

This Paris exhibition of hanging abstract sculpture has just the right element of suspense

Look up. Inside the exceptional interiors of Palais d’Iéna, designed by Auguste Perret in the 1930s, a unique collection of abstract sculptures stands the test of time, elegantly hanging from the art deco ceiling. Handpicked by brilliant, young curator Matthieu...

Art / 15 Oct 2018

Doug Aitken holds a mirror up to Detroit’s history inside a former bank

In cities like New York or Miami, the concept of unused space does not exist – anything inactive is demolished to make way for new developments. But until its fortunes reversed in the last ten years, Detroit sat in a state...

Art / 14 Oct 2018

Contemporary artists find a common thread with 1970s and 1980s Belgian textile art

‘Women artists’, says Elisa De Wyngaert with a sense for understatement, ‘have not had a very privileged position in the art world.’ What with textiles having female, domestic and quotidian connotations, much of the art form has been undervalued...

Art / 14 Oct 2018

Edward Burtynsky surveys the devastating scale of man’s footprint on the planet

The Anthropocene photographs are huge, imposing and impossibly detailed, designed to stimulate in us a sense of awe – both of the beauty of the natural world, and the destruction our species has wrought upon it. They are images, the...

Art / 8 Oct 2018

Elmgreen & Dragset take the plunge at Whitechapel Gallery

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been disrupting white cube architecture since the 1990s, but their recently unveiled installation at London’s Whitechapel Gallery may be one of their most sagacious transformations yet. The site-specific commission – a ghostly derelict swimming...