Exhibitions

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Anthea Hamilton is a force to be reckoned with at Thomas Dane Gallery

The dancing badger is nowhere to be seen. Missing too is the gold and white bird with the tie-dye socks. The install at Mayfair’s Thomas Dane Gallery is well under the way. I tip-toe through wet paint and plastic sheeting...

The domestic world’s a stage for artist Derrick Adams

It’s easy to see why the New York art scene is going wild for Derrick Adams, the 49-year-old Baltimore-born artist who has just opened a new exhibition curated by Francesco Bonami at Luxembourg & Dayan. His blocky, pop-bright collaged portraits –...

Investigating the role of craft in contemporary culture at Harewood House

From the days of the industrial revolution, craft and design were long pitched against one another; one representing a traditional, even regressive way of life, and the other symbolising progress and the future. However, since the financial crisis hit ten...

Oliver Beer talks animism, archives and material culture ahead of his Met Breuer show

‘This is a Ptolemaic pot, and it’s got a little face on the front. It’s the household god Bes – a jolly corpulent figure who you’d have in a shrine at home,’ explains artist Oliver Beer. The 2,000-year-old...

A new exhibition celebrates the global sweep of Kenya-born British artist Magdalene Odundo

Artist Magdalene Odundo is standing in her studio in Surrey, alongside architect Farshid Moussavi and Hepworth Wakefield chief curator Andrew Bonacina. In front of them lie images of Henry Moore sculptures, alabaster jars from Ancient Egypt, a 19th-century Ghanaian ritual...

Is This Tomorrow? Artists and architects revisit Whitechapel Gallery’s seminal postwar exhibit

In a Britain still recovering from the destruction and trauma of Second World War, in 1956 a group of artists and architects came together at the Whitechapel Gallery to think about the future. Envisioned by architect and critic Theo Crosby...

Jeff Koons is putting a new shine on the Ashmolean

Jeff Koons is back. The American artist and art commerce kingpin has just opened his latest show at Oxford’s Ashmolean, the world’s oldest public museum. Seventeen significant works – 14 of which make their first appearance on UK soil –...

Michael Craig-Martin on Albers, America, and architecture as entertainment

Somewhere in a maze of picket fences, golf greens and lakes, Vero Beach’s The Gallery at Windsor is a remote haven for British art world patricians. Its currently two years into a partnership with London’s Royal Academy of Arts, which...

Tracey Emin lays bare her own traumas in piercing new show

‘Our lives are in a trilogy. I’m in my last bit, so I’ve got to try and get it right,’ Tracey Emin reflects on the eve of her new solo exhibition, which has just opened at London’s White Cube...

Chicago Architecture Biennial announces curatorial theme for 2019 edition

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) has announced the curatorial theme for the 2019 edition which will be: ‘…and other such stories’. The theme looks beyond architecture into an exploration of the conditions that affect it, through an expansive, research-led and global approach. With its...

The darkness of photojournalist Don McCullin explored in Tate Britain retrospective

‘I grew up angry,’ says Sir Don McCullin, as a new retrospective of his work – including some of his earliest photographs – goes on show at Tate Britain. He was born in Finsbury Park, north London, in 1935...