Frieze London arrived in Regent's Park two decades ago. In the 'noughties', it hit the London art scene running, bringing a new razzmatazz to the selling of art. On the opening night, anyone who was anyone was there. Even Anish Kapoor had to stand in the rain for an...
Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world’s most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramović’s daring and utterly original body of work. An artist’s notebooks are...
The artist Marina Abramović will attend the private view of her highly anticipated retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy. The Godmother of performance art was diagnosed with an embolism, which will prevent her from flying. The artist however will travel by...
Politics: It's rare to see huge lines of families queuing outside a political event, unique if the politics are presented by a civic art gallery. But add Banksy to Glasgow's GoMA, and thousands rush to pay £15 each to enjoy his acerbic social commentary. And they love...
The British artist Tom Phillips RA has died. Phillips was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1957, where he read English. His gallery, Flowers has written, "Phillips attended drawing classes and lectures on Renaissance iconography...
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is the first survey in the UK of the work of American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) and the first major exhibition since she died in 2019. Tracing Schneemann's diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary work over six...
Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley has installed a series of large-scale outdoor light sculptures at six spectacular locations across East Sussex as part of Sussex Modern. Tentative Words Change Everything is the largest exhibition of Coley's outdoor works...
Living through the pandemic and re-reading an article from 2003 by Steven Vincent on her Crucifixion sculpture, fashioned as a response to 9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition...
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny storefronts selling transgressive signage, the New York art world is in full and masked swing. Galleries are opening, and...