Exhibitions

‘Silence is a very obscure sound’: Christine Sun Kim on her sound art
The artist’s new survey at the Whitney shows how she has found a way to create work involving sound as a deaf artist
Veronica Esposito
06, Feb, 2025 @6:54 PM

Museum turns up the dial on pioneering art collector Joséphine Bowes
Frenchwoman ‘had a bigger role than we’ve ever made visible’, says curator at Durham’s Bowes Museum
Mark Brown North of England correspondent
06, Feb, 2025 @4:03 PM

Configurations in Black: a stateless Rwandan refugee makes art out of his experience
Serge Alain Nitegeka was forced out of his home as a result of genocide and now, awaiting citizenship, turns his displacement into art showing at a New York gallery
Veronica Esposito
05, Feb, 2025 @5:31 PM

A wedding in a desert full of war props: Gohar Dashti’s best photograph
‘This is a reproduction of a memory I have from my childhood during the Iran-Iraq war. I went to a wedding and could hear bombs and alarms going off’
Interview by Charlotte Jansen
05, Feb, 2025 @3:22 PM

Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – visions of a vanished world
The American photographer Peter Hujar, who died of Aids complications in 1987, chronicles New York’s 70s and 80s gay scene – and much else besides – in this haunting retrospective
Sean O’Hagan
02, Feb, 2025 @11:00 AM

Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism review – spot the standouts in lavish display of bafflingly weak art
Harking back to a wartime RA show, this mishmash of 20th-century Brazilian art, much of it in thrall to European modernism, ends exactly where it should begin…
Laura Cumming
02, Feb, 2025 @9:00 AM

‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best
The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacy
Sean O’Hagan
02, Feb, 2025 @6:00 AM

Barbara Hepworth sculptures exhibited in public for first time
A new show focusing on the artist’s fascination with string includes works unseen beyond private collections
Richard Brooks
01, Feb, 2025 @11:11 AM

Seaside surrealism, a techno Man Ray and new paintings from Billy Childish
Tate St Ives hosts an intriguing show by occultist and artist Ithell Colquhoun, the Warburg Institute explores tarot and the Barbican exhibits Noah Davis’s dreamlike paintings of everyday Black life – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
31, Jan, 2025 @12:04 PM

AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025
A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
Fiona Shields
31, Jan, 2025 @7:00 AM

‘African art is not a fleeting trend’: Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent’s artists
Reopening after renovation, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will provide a permanent home for the extensive Lazraq family collection
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
28, Jan, 2025 @11:39 AM

‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar
Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
28, Jan, 2025 @10:05 AM
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