Exhibitions

Georg Baselitz pays homage to fellow artists in new exhibition, from Mondrian to Warhol

Georg Baselitz believes every work of art is a self-portrait. Whether it’s a Mondrian colour puzzle or a Warhol printed tin, what we are looking at – and, Baselitz suggests, the subject we are really interested in – is the...

Tom Sachs on Switzerland, LSD, and the cult of organisation

Tom Sachs has more in common with the Swiss than he would have you believe. The American artist runs a decidedly precise operation in New York governed by a rigorous framework of ten rules – or ‘bullets’ – outlined in...

Frieze Los Angeles 2019 preview: will the art fair get its big Hollywood break?

Frieze is hoping to make it in Hollywood with the art fair’s inaugural Los Angeles edition, which launches at Paramount Pictures Studios from 14-17 February. But can it catch its big break in the city of broken dreams? Paris Photo...

Roy McMakin’s home truths pack an emotive punch in New York

‘My goal with this show was to use the new work and the old work to show that I’ve been doing the same thing for 40 years,’ says Roy McMakin, whose pieces range from full-scale houses to dressers he’s...

In pictures: visual inspiration from the W* photography desk

Felicia Honkasalo turns heirlooms into a photo-biography of her late grandfather

Losing a grandfather: a sadness felt by those lucky enough to know a parents’ parent. Artist Felicia Honkasalo never knew hers, and only found him after his death through a series of inherited artefacts. An exercise in meditative memory-making, she has...

Josef Albers and the modernist maestro’s musical influences

Painter, furniture designer, colour theorist, glassmaker, writer, educator: Josef Albers was a man for all seasons. More surprising still, he also had a knack for designing album covers. A new exhibition, ‘Sonic Albers’, opening at David Zwirner’s 537 West 20th...

From a Prague solo show to craft in Cork, unmissable design exhibitions this January

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, here’s the design events we are not missing this month... Cro-Magnon...

Ebony G Patterson’s ornate night garden of toxic silk flowers and neo-baroque tapestries

It’s among the most enduring tales of deception: Eve and Adam’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden after eating the forbidden fruit, the original sin. In Ebony G Patterson’s largest survey to date, the mixed media artist similarly lures viewers...

Nendo turns MC Escher’s optical illusions into reality in immersive exhibition

Maurits Cornelis Escher – better known as MC Escher – was a graphic artist, born in Holland in 1898. In his lifetime, his work in woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, inspired by tessellation and geometry in nature and objects, went mostly...

Pieter Hugo’s fascinating photographs bring Mexican culture to life

South African photographer Pieter Hugo, known for his candid portraits often depicting people on the periphery of mainstream society, has produced a salient series of work in Mexico. An April visit to Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City was the starting...

Art Basel Miami Beach 2018: the Wallpaper* edit