“Soul of a Nation” demonstrates different ways black artists from across the United States contended with issues of identity and representation and the role of art in a society pervaded with racism…
Damien Hirst’s exhibition “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” is like a vast art theme park, a journey into a fantasy world in which myriad mythologies and cultures collide. …
With current shows in five countries, British artist Ryan Gander talks about his extremely diverse output—encompassing sculptures, paintings, installations, building interiors, sneaker designs, essays…
Zanzibar-born British artist, curator, and writer Lubaina Himid has been an important voice on issues of race, gender, identity, and representation in Britain for the past thirty years.
“I think a picture is more like the real world when it’s made out of the real world,” Robert Rauschenberg said in 1964.
Born in 1860 to a British father and Flemish mother, Ensor lived in the Belgian seaside town of Ostend for most of his life, apart from the three years he spent at the fine art academy in Brussels. Th…
At the entrance to Etel Adnan’s survey exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, “The Weight of the World,” were three large-scale tapestries from 2015 and 2016 depicting natural themes in joyful splashes…
“When the operative system of a society collapses, can art bring about an alternative way of thinking . . . ?” Francis Alÿs wrote this question on a notebook page reproduced in the brochure accompanyi…
In a recent talk at Tate Modern, New York–based artist Park McArthur recounted how Virgin Trains had given her two five-pound vouchers as compensation for a delayed journey from Glasgow caused by some…
Ghana-born British filmmaker John Akomfrah garnered international acclaim with his haunting film Vertigo Sea(2015), one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale. Through a rich lattice of…