Archive

  • Monuments

    What characterises a monument? Mass? Authority? Glory? And what should be its destiny? If inspiring, perpetuity? If offending, removal? As witnessed here, removal, applied to a likeness, is a loaded word. So is likeness. With the exception of the Washington…

  • Still Glasgow

    Including works by Bert Hardy and Oscar Marzaroli to Alan Dimmick and Iseult Timmermans, this exhibition spotlights the Scottish city and its photography from the 1940s to the present, but above all it is a record of the people who…

  • Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus

    Freije has created 26 new works for this show, life-size figures imbued with a rich and often warm humanity that draw you in but whose ambiguities defy singular readings

  • The Frick Collection: The Historic Interiors of One East Seventieth Street – book review

    Celebrating the newly renovated Frick Museum, this treasure of a book takes the reader on a room-by-room historical tour of the Henry Frick’s Gilded Age collection, from the Renaissance to the 19th century

  • Mai Nguyễn-Long – interview

    The artist explains feeling that she belonged neither to the Vietnamese community of her heritage or the Australian one of her birth led her to translate centuries-old Vietnamese wood carvings into her own artworks in clay and how through her…

  • The Medium is the Message

    A thought-provoking exhibition of archival material and related artworks celebrating the centenary of the College of Psychic Studies’ move to Queensberry Place in south-west London

  • Emilija Škarnulytė

    From river pollution to radioactive waste, through aquatic atmospheres and mythic journeys, Emilija Škarnulytė’s immersive films and installations explore the fragility of our ecology

  • William Nicholson

    This magnificent exhibition includes bold posters, woodcuts, portraits and still lifes, but it is Nicholson’s non-commissioned pictures of people from lower social classes that steal the show

  • Erasure

    Through painting, sculpture and film, three international artists ask us to reflect on ecological destruction and cultural erasure – and how we can work towards a better future

  • Dana Awartani: Standing by the Ruins

    Using traditional craft techniques, Awartani traces the destruction of cultural heritage sites during conflict in the Middle East. In painting, installation and textiles, she considers the themes of remembrance, healing and forgetting