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‘It starts with women getting angry’: the giant exhibition giving art’s feminist trailblazers their due

Snubbed by the art world, female artists across 20th-century Britain created work on kitchen tables, in community centres, and at wild gigs. Now, a landmark show at Tate Britain is revealing just how revolutionary their work was

Skye Sherwin

04, Nov, 2023 @11:55 AM

Disassembled tents, shadow forests, and giant bats: meet the finalists of Wales’s biggest art prize

Unabashedly political, the 10th run of the Artes Mundi contest sees artists reflecting on environmental damage, contested territories, and dark fantasies against the patriarchy

Skye Sherwin

13, Oct, 2023 @10:00 AM

To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think

A new exhibition shows how a textile transformation brought brightness to the masses, in an era where electric purples and absinthe greens reigned supreme

Skye Sherwin

08, Sep, 2023 @12:00 PM

The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted

As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its grand reopening this week, critics, artists and curators pick their favourite works from 500 years of portraiture

Adrian Searle, Rianna Jade Parker, Nicholas Cullinan, Alison Smith, Chloë Ashby, Thomas J Price,Jonathan Jones, Aindrea Emelife, Skye Sherwin, Stuart Jeffries, Claire Armitstead, Eliza Goodpasture, Katy Hessel, Hannah Clugston and Oliver Basciano

19, Jun, 2023 @5:00 AM

‘The theatricality of that costume is off the scale’: celebrating two centuries of diva fashion

From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition celebrates the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies

Skye Sherwin

15, Jun, 2023 @7:00 AM

‘I felt extreme confusion: was I one or two people?’: Katie Cuddon’s sculptural explorations of motherhood

Fired up by the experience of raising a child in the pandemic, the sculptor discusses her latest works exploring the ‘incredibly physical’ relationship between mother and baby

Skye Sherwin

01, Jun, 2023 @7:00 AM

‘We’ve done so much damage’: Beatriz Milhazes’s carnivalesque odes to nature

Ahead of a historic survey of her work at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, the Brazilian artist discusses her global inspirations, shape-shifting patterns, and why she’s still an optimist

Skye Sherwin

18, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

‘She created a space where people could reveal themselves’: the unique portraits of Alice Neel

A new exhibition celebrates a 20th-century painter acclaimed late in life for capturing the unvarnished essence of friends, neighbours – and even art critics

Skye Sherwin

06, Feb, 2023 @12:00 PM

A stitch in time: the enduring influence of the Gee’s Bend quilters

A new exhibition celebrates the remarkable legacy of the master makers from a tiny Alabama hamlet who found worldwide fame two decades ago

Skye Sherwin

26, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM

Bah, humbug: anti-Christmas treats for the tinseled-out

From a beach comedy movie to people-free abstract art, our critics offer cultural escapes for those who’ve already had enough festive spirit

Sam Jordison, Rebecca Liu, Jason Okundaye, Skye Sherwin and Jenessa Williams

26, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM

Iced gems: art, books, music and more to keep the home fires burning this winter

From storm-tossed seascapes to skating on the Thames, our cultural critics select wintry wonders for the season’s dark days

Sam Jordison, Rebecca Liu, Keza MacDonald, Skye Sherwin and Jenessa Williams

19, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM

Brutal truth: the artists inspired by high-rise horror

The original architects of modernism had grand utopian visions. Decades later, a new exhibition asks how their creations became the stuff of nightmares

Skye Sherwin

05, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

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skyesherwin

‘It starts with women getting angry’: the giant exhibition giving art’s feminist trailblazers their due

Disassembled tents, shadow forests, and giant bats: meet the finalists of Wales’s biggest art prize

To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think

The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted

‘The theatricality of that costume is off the scale’: celebrating two centuries of diva fashion

‘I felt extreme confusion: was I one or two people?’: Katie Cuddon’s sculptural explorations of motherhood

‘We’ve done so much damage’: Beatriz Milhazes’s carnivalesque odes to nature

‘She created a space where people could reveal themselves’: the unique portraits of Alice Neel

A stitch in time: the enduring influence of the Gee’s Bend quilters

Bah, humbug: anti-Christmas treats for the tinseled-out

Iced gems: art, books, music and more to keep the home fires burning this winter

Brutal truth: the artists inspired by high-rise horror

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