Exhibitions

Design / 25 Jan 2019

Big bang: David/Nicolas reach for the stars with their first solo exhibition in the US

In the space of seven years, David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem have evolved from fresh-faced newcomers into the brightest stars of the Lebanese design scene. The duo first met at Beirut’s Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 2007 and, finding an...

Art / 25 Jan 2019

Yinka Shonibare’s stirring new textile works put Hereford on the map

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has worked with a diverse group of people in Herefordshire to create a new textile commission for local charity Meadow Arts, inspired by the Hereford Mappa Mundi – the largest medieval world map to survive to...

Art / 25 Jan 2019

Bill Viola/Michelangelo: a meditation on mortality and revival at the Royal Academy

In the Royal Academy’s new exhibition ‘Life, Death Rebirth’ that seams American video artist Bill Viola with Renaissance doyen Michelangelo, a drawing by the latter, etched 487 years ago, depicts the punishment of the mythical giant Tityus. The giant’s muscle-hewn...

Design / 24 Jan 2019

The devil is in the details at Luca Cipelletti’s Rome solo show

Do not make a mistake and pigeonhole Luca Cipelletti. The Milan-based architect, designer and museologist’s prolific output just seems to grow exponentially each year. Recent commissions such as Milan’s Museum of Science and Technology, the Bitossi Museum-Archive and the forthcoming...

Art / 21 Jan 2019

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

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...

Art / 20 Jan 2019

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...

Art / 19 Jan 2019

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...

Art / 19 Jan 2019

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

‘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...

Art / 11 Jan 2019

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...

Art / 7 Jan 2019

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...

Design / 28 Dec 2018

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...

Art / 17 Dec 2018

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...