Sculpture
New Contemporaries review – Kafka portals, concrete phalluses and a Muppet Pasolini
One miraculous, mind-boggling work dominates this annual show of emerging artists, but there is an enormous amount of absorbing art, not least the Trans-Siberian video diary
Jonathan Jones
15, Jan, 2025 @2:25 PM
In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound
In a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundings
Laura Cumming
12, Jan, 2025 @9:00 AM
Zilia Sánchez obituary
Cuban artist who moved to Puerto Rico in the 1970s and manipulated flat canvases into ‘erotic topographies’
Oliver Basciano
08, Jan, 2025 @5:12 PM
‘There are so many crazy stories’: the hunt for every sports statue in world
Chris Stride leads project that gives insights into UK society – such as statues of Lester Piggott outnumbering those of women
Mark Brown North of England correspondent
31, Dec, 2024 @5:00 AM
Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistance
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
30, Dec, 2024 @4:34 PM
Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundings
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
30, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM
I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin
I wind my thread around their holes to create sculptures that connect with ageing and time
Nathalie Frost
30, Dec, 2024 @6:00 AM
‘A little spooky’: an artist-beekeeper’s apian oeuvre celebrates the industrious insect
Garnett Puett’s Los Angeles exhibition is a collaboration between humans and bees and an exploration of their relationship
Lois Beckett
24, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM
Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2024
Black art moved centre stage, sculpture couldn’t keep still, Francis Alÿs captured the power of child’s play – but the year belonged to Van Gogh
Laura Cumming
22, Dec, 2024 @1:00 PM
Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA
Butt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop
Adrian Searle
17, Dec, 2024 @10:09 AM
Yayoi Kusama in Melbourne: Instagram’s favourite artist dazzles in a blockbuster show
The 95-year-old is now one of the most popular artists in the world, for her cheeky pumpkins and infinity rooms – but it is her fascinating early works that make this NGV exhibition great
Sian Cain
13, Dec, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘Ground zero for climate change’: the shoreline sculpture park coming to Miami
An ambitious multi-part project will transform seven miles of seabed into an artistic destination with a cautionary message
Veronica Esposito
02, Dec, 2024 @9:04 AM
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