Bedwyr Williams

Frieze London 2019 review – gags, tapestry and hardcore ceramic panda sex

Regent’s Park, London
Dazzling colour radiates throughout the art fair this year, along with the scent of ayahuasca ceremonies and satirical pokes at the pretension – and aggressive fringes – of the art world

Hettie Judah

03, Oct, 2019 @1:15 PM

What to see this week in the UK

From Hot Chip to Gary Hume, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship

29, Mar, 2019 @9:00 AM

Knock Knock review – 'I like a laugh as much as the next miserable critic!'

South London Gallery
There are old jokes, new jokes, even Welsh sheep jokes. But the real star of this show about humour in art is the rescued fire station much of it is housed in

Adrian Searle

18, Sep, 2018 @5:08 PM

Alternative election posters: from psychic love waves to Chicken Cottage pledges

Does your vote go to Cornelia Parker’s right-sniffing dogs, Bedwyr Williams’ comic-book villains or Corbyn’s manifesto rebranded as a fashion choice?

Interviews by Dale Berning Sawa

30, May, 2017 @6:49 PM

Artes Mundi review – forget the seeds and suppositories, give me a love-making chiropodist

Chapter arts centre and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Contenders for the £40,000 prize include medication boxes and seeds from the siege of Leningrad – but Bedwyr Williams’ stories from a city of glass tower above the rest

Adrian Searle

24, Oct, 2016 @5:43 PM

‘We’d take pot shots at Ramsay with a medieval trebuchet firing out-of-date offal’ | My last supper

My last supper: An odyssey of 70s Welsh seaside nostalgia awaits artist Bedwyr Williams’ last moments on earth...

Interview by Dale Berning Sawa

29, Jul, 2016 @11:00 AM

The art on your sleeve: visual artists on album covers

The best record covers are often as much a part of the whole work as the songs themselves. We asked six artists to choose the designs that inspire them

Interviews by Kathryn Bromwich, Imogen Carter and Katie Forster

26, Jun, 2016 @10:00 AM

Exhibitions: the biggest shows of 2016

This year will feature Belgian maestros, subversive shallows and a load of rhubarb. Oliver Basciano and Robert Clark survey the scene

Oliver Basciano & Robert Clark

02, Jan, 2016 @9:00 AM

Where are the laughs? British Art Show 8 is a super-serious riff on our toxic material world

It’s got a kiddy TV talent show, a Tom of Finland dungeon and a talking bog man. So why does this five-yearly art survey feel like an elegy to our failures? It needs to lighten up

Adrian Searle

07, Oct, 2015 @5:00 PM

Two Britons make seven-strong Artes Mundi shortlist

Bedwyr Williams and John Akomfrah on the list for UK’s premier contemporary art prize, to be announced in 2017

Mark Brown

16, Sep, 2015 @11:01 PM

Bedwyr Williams; Cornelia Parker review – imagine you’re a pebble…

Bedwyr Williams’s cosmos of bits is lost in space. Thank goodness for Cornelia Parker’s embroidered Magna Carta next door

Rachel Cooke

16, Aug, 2015 @8:30 AM

This week's new exhibitions

Robert Clark & Skye Sherwin

26, Apr, 2014 @5:00 AM

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Bedwyr Williams

Frieze London 2019 review – gags, tapestry and hardcore ceramic panda sex

What to see this week in the UK

Knock Knock review – 'I like a laugh as much as the next miserable critic!'

Alternative election posters: from psychic love waves to Chicken Cottage pledges

Artes Mundi review – forget the seeds and suppositories, give me a love-making chiropodist

‘We’d take pot shots at Ramsay with a medieval trebuchet firing out-of-date offal’ | My last supper

The art on your sleeve: visual artists on album covers

Exhibitions: the biggest shows of 2016

Where are the laughs? British Art Show 8 is a super-serious riff on our toxic material world

Two Britons make seven-strong Artes Mundi shortlist

Bedwyr Williams; Cornelia Parker review – imagine you’re a pebble…

This week's new exhibitions

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