Art
‘Female artists were invisible’: critics didn’t dismiss Nancy Holt’s land art – they didn’t mention it at all
Holt made mesmerising works that filtered stars and vanished in the desert heat. But land art was seen as a male preserve. A new exhibition redresses the balance
Dale Berning Sawa
13, Apr, 2021 @2:14 PM
Henry Glassie: Field Work review – hypnotic glimpses of folk art in the making
This documentary about the celebrated folklorist also takes a leisurely look at the working methods of the artists he reveres
Andrew Pulver
13, Apr, 2021 @12:00 PM
‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review
Gagosian Britannia, London
Part of a year-long residency at the gallery, the artist’s initial show, with Coke vending machines, rubbish bags and cow’s tongues a-lolling, is dispiriting
Part of a year-long residency at the gallery, the artist’s initial show, with Coke vending machines, rubbish bags and cow’s tongues a-lolling, is dispiriting
Adrian Searle
13, Apr, 2021 @11:24 AM
Pure joy: how Parrtjima festival is bringing ancient culture into the future
Curator Rhoda Roberts wants the Alice Springs event to encourage Australians to truly connect with the land and ‘continue its stewardship with us’
Steph Harmon
12, Apr, 2021 @5:30 PM
‘At last, a lockdown masterpiece’ – Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects review
These alarming, engrossing works take the artist’s seminal House and add horror, reflecting the turbulence of lives upended and exploded by the pandemic
Jonathan Jones
12, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM
Rachel Whiteread: ‘I wanted to make the opposite of what I had always been making’
The artist has taken a radical new direction, turning her back on casts and creating sculptures from scavenged material. She explains how a bipolar diagnosis has changed her work
Charlotte Higgins
11, Apr, 2021 @2:00 PM
Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collection could see it lost to UK
Ashmolean in Oxford turned down chance to buy exquisite paintings and drawings, which may now go to New York
Dalya Alberge
11, Apr, 2021 @7:15 AM
Rachel Whiteread’s world of interiors and Francis Bacon’s dead elephants – the week in art
A new show from the Turner winner, Gilbert and George share their new normal and eco-activists fight for the rights of salmon – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
09, Apr, 2021 @1:17 PM
Calls for full inventory of world artefacts held by Church of England
Promise to repatriate Benin bronzes comes as momentum grows at other institutions on returning works
Ben Quinn
09, Apr, 2021 @12:57 PM
Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air
The Swiss artist takes us on an effortless tour of Sea-turquoise glass horses, watercolour ocean sunsets and teetering DayGlo canvasses
Adrian Searle
09, Apr, 2021 @10:47 AM
Don’t tar fives with public school brush | Brief letters
Brief letters: Wallball and fives | Lancashire creamy | Steve Bell | Brexit gift | Shtisel
Letters
08, Apr, 2021 @5:05 PM
‘They were survivors’: the Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis
A new exhibition celebrates the work of three Austrian artists who escaped their country as Nazis took over and created daring work in the years after
Nadja Sayej
08, Apr, 2021 @3:58 PM
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