Martin Creed

From Skyspace to The Scallop: 10 of the best outdoor art works

Bronze lozenges, Cumbrian moss and a colossal female nude: as restrictions lift, here are the greatest alfresco spectacles

Jonathan Jones

26, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM

Folkestone turns gold and Edvard Munch's selfies – the week in art

A giant metal kookaburra with a sense of humour, Martin Creed’s video call to inaction and a graffiti take on lockdown – all in your weekly dispatch

Tim Jonze

29, May, 2020 @2:16 PM

UK gallery curator calls for public art project in response to Covid-19

Ambitious national programme is needed to support artists and institutions, says Serpentine Galleries’ artistic director

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

30, Mar, 2020 @5:00 AM

Martin Creed: Toast review – postcards from the hedge

The eclectic artist’s new show is a miscellany of personal anxieties and totems, from stressed sopranos to bronze-cast peanut butter

Laura Cumming

02, Dec, 2018 @8:00 AM

Martin Creed: Toast review – plenty to chew on in show of surprises

From singers accompanied by dancing socks to filmed vignettes of people opening their mouths to reveal masticated food, Creed’s exhibition is absorbing, moving and funny

Adrian Searle

30, Nov, 2018 @1:20 PM

The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn | Editorial

Editorial: In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are today

Editorial

14, Jan, 2018 @1:42 PM

Edinburgh festival 2017: the shows we recommend

Plan your viewing with our list of essential shows, ordered by start time

Lyn Gardner, Brian Logan and Judith Mackrell

23, Aug, 2017 @7:28 AM

Martin Creed's Words and Music review – an impish evening of artistic musing

The Turner prize-winner improvises with a mic and guitar in an endearing, exposing show full of ticklish humour

Lyn Gardner

06, Aug, 2017 @10:20 AM

The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern | Editorial

Editorial: The right wants to believe that contemporary art is a liberal-elite conspiracy. Five million visitors to Tate Modern will tell you different

Editorial

28, Dec, 2016 @6:35 PM

Martin Creed's bleak anti-carol should be Christmas No 1

With his song It’s You, Turner-winning artist Martin Creed has made the perfect antidote to the commercialised positivity of Christmas

Jonathan Jones

06, Dec, 2016 @3:50 PM

The Infinite Mix review – video-art medley dances madly with big ideas

The Hayward’s new offsite show is a weird, wonderful assortment of installations featuring ghostly opera stars, dancing plant-life and a bullet-riddled tour of Kendrick Lamar’s home town

Adrian Searle

07, Sep, 2016 @10:57 AM

Martin Creed: 'I keep hair. And I'm afraid of cheese'

In an exclusive preview of his new show, Turner winner Martin Creed gives us a guided tour round old cars, smashed chairs and plastic bags from under his fridge

Adrian Searle

18, May, 2016 @1:00 PM