At 91, Michelangelo Pistoletto has been making his signature Mirror Paintings for over sixty years. Yet he is still looking for new directions for them, and when I spoke to him in his new show at Robilant + Voena, he was so passionate in explaining his ideas it might...
Diagnosed with cancer during the 2020 lockdown, Tracey Emin underwent radical surgery for bladder cancer. That hasn’t stopped her returning to art with, if anything, increased vigour following her move from London to Margate. Her show at White Cube Bermondsey contains...
Bharti Kher believes growing up as a young Indian person in an English suburb in the 1970s and 80s gave her a sense of being different, and that experience shaped the development of her diverse practice when she moved to New Delhi in 1993. ‘Alchemies, her largest UK...
The Barbican is currently presenting some forty of Francis Alÿs’s films of children’s games, alongside his paintings and other related material. The films last the length of the games – typically three to eight minutes. He first filmed a game in 1999, then in 2007,...
At 86, Nil Yalter is a star of this year’s Venice Biennale, where she is showing ‘Topak Ev’ and has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. She also has a solo show at Ab-Anbar Gallery in London, ‘The Story Behind Each Word Must Be Told’. Much of the...
Permindar Kaur’s thirty-year career survey at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, is titled ‘Nothing is Fixed’. As that suggests, her work maintains ambiguity between possible interpretations, leaving the viewer to decide. Kaur divides the show into five distinct...
The 12th Amsterdam Art Week officially ran 29 May – 2 June, but most of its shows carry on longer – in 70-odd galleries, project spaces and institutions across the city - so any time in June would make for a good visit. Here are a dozen things I liked: Olga...
St Leonards – the town I grew up in – has become a fashionable place, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. Consistent with that is a flourishing art scene which one could stretch along the coast as far west as Eastbourne and east into Kent. This past weekend, though,...
Irish artist Trish Morrissey combines archival research and her biography to develop and play real and fictional characters, exploring women's roles, the family and the body. Curating at her Close gallery in Somerset, Freeny Yianni focuses on Morrissey's treatment of...