Exhibitions

Architecture / 15 Aug 2018

First look at Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee

The highly sculptural V&A Museum of Design Dundee is Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s first UK building – as well as Scotland’s very first dedicated design museum. The new structure is now complete and gearing up to throw open its doors...

Art / 15 Aug 2018

Meet the artist channelling Buckminster Fuller to create her graphic worlds

Drink up striking colours and minimalist compositions in this solo exhibition by Sinta Tantra in London. The British-Balinese artist is using the space at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery to explore her artistic journey, from public art to architectural interventions and works...

Design / 14 Aug 2018

Unmissable design exhibitions in August 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... ‘SST®...

Design / 7 Aug 2018

London Design Biennale 2018: 10 interactive installations to look out for

London Design Biennale (4-23 September) returns for its second iteration, this year exploring the theme of ‘emotional states’. ‘It’s a gathering like the World Cup,’ says Sir John Sorrell of the 40 countries, cities and territories that are taking...

Art / 7 Aug 2018

Ed Ruscha and the ‘broken moments’ that shaped the early days of his practice

There’s a curious wryness in the work of West Coast art patriarch Ed Ruscha, one that belies the superficial gloss of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. The painter and printmaker has lived and worked in LA since 1956...

Art / 6 Aug 2018

Sculptors Phillip King and Alexandre da Cunha to pair up for ‘live’ collaboration

The creative practices of artists Phillip King and Alexandre da Cunha are set to intertwine in September, during a week of practical tête-à-tête at The Royal Society of Sculptors in London’s South Kensington. The exhibition’s title, ‘Duologue’ – defined as...

Art / 31 Jul 2018

Edmund de Waal to stage architectural intervention in LA modernist masterpiece

When West Hollywood’s Schindler House was conceived in 1922, it proposed a radical, Bauhausian mode of dwelling for Los Angeles – remarkable not for what it had, but for what it didn’t. It cracked convention by doing away with defined...

Art / 28 Jul 2018

Kate Ballis’ candy-coloured dreamscapes hit the sweet spot in Los Angeles

Kate Ballis’ otherworldly infrared photographs of Palm Springs first caught our eye last autumn when we met the artist in the desert resort city, where she was working on the next instalment of her series Infra Realism. The Melbourne-based photographer...

Art / 27 Jul 2018

Over 100,000 unseen Andy Warhol photographs to be made public

Andy Warhol once said, ‘My idea of a good picture is one of a famous person doing something unfamous.’ It’s a sentiment that couldn’t be more apparent in a trove of over 130,000 photographic exposures made by the...

Art / 25 Jul 2018

A postcard from Capri as Festival del Paesaggio gets underway

The island of Capri is renowned for its crystal aquamarine waters, limestone cliffs and glamorous resorts – but this Italian gem has more to offer to sun-seekers as the third edition of its annual arts festival gets underway. Curated by...

Art / 23 Jul 2018

Yves Klein artworks electrify Blenheim Palace’s baroque interiors

He’s a household name yet ‘most people do not know anything about Yves Klein’, says Daniel Moquay, director of the late French artist’s estate, and husband of Klein’s widow, Rotraut. Moquay has helped to coordinate an exhibition on Klein – who...

Art / 13 Jul 2018

Six artists not to miss at the Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest contemporary art biennial is back for its tenth run. Spread across Liverpool and showing for 15 weeks, this year’s edition is inspired by a poem – Beautiful world, where are you? – from German polymath Friedrich...