Exhibitions

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...

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...

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...

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Lenny Kravitz turns his lens on glittering coterie of friends in New York exhibition

Rocker, actor, designer – not just a musician, Lenny Kravitz is in fact a man of many talents. A fact that storied champagne house Dom Pérignon evidently recognised when the brand appointed him creative director in May. The company is...

Masters of illusion will challenge your perception of sculpture at Hayward Gallery

Confused, wobbly, and – frankly – a little sick. When you leave the Hayward Gallery’s new show, your body might not feel quite right. Your feet have been on the ceiling and your head on the floor; you’ll have met...

South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere shows history is never really black and white

Marian Goodman Gallery has kicked off its 2018-2019 season with an inaugural presentation by draughtsman, performance artist and sculptor Kemang Wa Lehulere at its London outpost. The Cape-town native initially rose to prominence in 2006 with Gugulective, an artist-led, community-engaged...

San Francisco’s de Young Museum puts contemporary Muslim fashion in the spotlight

From couture to sports-casual and swimwear to streetwear, ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’ at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, is not a deep retrospective; the oldest piece featured is an Yves Saint Laurent garment from 2000. Instead, the multi-media mix of apparel, accessories...

Artists bring nothingness into sharp relief at Langen Foundation

An exhibition featuring 32 artists from Hong Kong’s Burger Collection has been unveiled at the Langen Foundation, Neuss. ‘How To See [What Isn’t There]’ tackles all angles of ‘nothingness’ and ‘the void’, spanning numerous eras and disciplines, from photography to...

Naomi Feinberg: the sculptor who carved a place for herself in a man’s world

Lobel Modern has unveiled a compelling display of work from the late artist Naomi Feinberg, a woman at the helm of American 20th-century sculpture. Focusing on 14 mid-career pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition coincides with the 10th...

Mary Obering paintings exhibited in Los Angeles for the first time

In 1971, the artist Mary Obering moved from Colorado to Soho, at the height of the neighbourhood’s transformation into an artist haven. Nearly 50 years later, the celebrated painter appears in her first solo show at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in...

Science and art prove a potent combination in the hands of Conrad Shawcross

What do you know about a tetrahedron? For rarely has a shape responded so strangely to growth, and never has it assumed quite so much importance. The Greek philosopher Plato, writing 2,400 years ago, identified the tetrahedron – a...