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“I am always advocating for prints to be seen as important artworks in their own right,” he told Observer.
The Redd Family Collection is, he tells Observer, "a river of memory carrying Black artistic vision forward into the present.”
The exhibition focuses on the period when the artist used concentrated sources of light to create atmosphere and build anticipation.
This is artwork that can lift the lowest of spirits.
Dual exhibitions trace how Britain’s 20th-century artists engaged with myth, sexuality and politics on their own terms.
The urgency of Lubaina Himid’s original curatorial mission remains painfully relevant.
At times more coy than carnal, works by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams explore eroticism through ambiguity, restraint and form.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for U.K. audiences to engage with one of Latin America’s most influential painters.
From Doris Salcedo’s 'Shibboleth' to Kara Walker’s anti-imperial fountain, the commissions have frequently challenged viewers to reckon with...
An entire room of this moving survey is dedicated to the late artist's now-shuttered Underground Museum.
The artist's largest retrospective to date at the Hayward Gallery charts a fierce, decades-long practice that blends photomontage, punk feminism and...
This decades-spanning survey offers insight into the development of Brazilian artistic identity but lacks verve.
Being sniffy about this exhibition would be like telling a kitten off for being cute.
As the U.K. arts scene suffers crisis after crisis, Sadler’s Wells is expanding its commitment to new ideas in dance and performance.
This major exhibition at the V&A assembles a dizzying array of objects and artwork commissioned by the era's most famous emperors to tell the story of...
“Electric Dreams,” a show of work by early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, is prescient at its best and...
Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-...