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Full of Days review – the wonderfully strange artist discovered in a charity shop haul
Hermione Burton was an amateur painter with immaculate outfits but a turbulent life. Now artist Andy Holden has excavated her rollercoaster story in a film starring Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell
Adrian Searle
27, Mar, 2023 @2:15 PM
Rites of Passage review: stilt-walkers and slave ship ghosts brave the Atlantic
From gentle reflections to horrific reminders of the middle passage, compelling stories of migration cut through this sprawling show of work by 19 black artists
Adrian Searle
21, Mar, 2023 @10:38 AM
‘Going big suited her. Going very big’ – the uncontainable brilliance of sculptor Phyllida Barlow
The British artist, who has died aged 78, turned detritus into sprawling installations that were so huge sometimes you feared for your safety – and your clothing
Adrian Searle
13, Mar, 2023 @7:06 PM
Mike Nelson review – spooky rooms and indoor deserts create a disturbingly masculine world
Nothing is as it seems as the Hayward is turned into a series of ill-lit labyrinths where it is hard to tell the incidental from the crucial
Adrian Searle
21, Feb, 2023 @12:01 AM
Alice Neel review – sexy, wonky portraits of radicals, poets, feminists and naked art critics
She immortalised New York’s bohemia and her own joys and struggles in paintings powerfully alert to body language and psychological vulnerabilities
Adrian Searle
15, Feb, 2023 @6:01 AM
Punched, insulted and excoriated in song … our critics on the artists who hit back
In a shocking attack, the ballet director Marco Goecke smeared dog excrement in the face of Wiebke Hüster in retaliation for her review. Yet it isn’t the first time an artist has assaulted a critic. Our writers share their worst moments
Michael Billington, Hannah J Davies, Phil Daoust, Lyndsey Winship, Adrian Searle Arifa Akbar, Dave Simpson
14, Feb, 2023 @2:47 PM
‘A punch in the face’ – Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70 review
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Female abstract expressionists – many overlooked or ‘borrowed’ from – finally get their day in this jolting exhibition whose works seem to yell at each other from wall to wall
Female abstract expressionists – many overlooked or ‘borrowed’ from – finally get their day in this jolting exhibition whose works seem to yell at each other from wall to wall
Adrian Searle
09, Feb, 2023 @6:26 PM
Much of a Dutchness: the world’s biggest ever Vermeer show is an unmissable feast
A milkmaid daydreaming, a mistress clutching a letter, a city waking at dawn … Vermeer was a master of the intimate, absorbing moment – and this sublime show frees his glorious vision
Adrian Searle
07, Feb, 2023 @3:55 PM
Saddam Hussein mural painter creates a world of turmoil – Mohammed Sami review
Sami, a refugee from Iraq, learned his trade painting his country’s then leader. His disquieting works, full of tortured surfaces, feel like distillations of death and chaos
Adrian Searle
26, Jan, 2023 @5:14 PM
Spain and the Hispanic World review – royals, chinchillas, bullfights and blood
A beautiful Velázquez, fascinating maps, glazed pottery from Muslim craftsmen … US collector Archer Huntington amassed stupendous works – but is there more to this show than the spoils of one man’s grand tour?
Adrian Searle
17, Jan, 2023 @5:08 PM
The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead
Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright
27, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
The best art and architecture of 2022
From brutiful Birmingham to Tracey Emin’s Margate rebirth, from a mind-boggling array of Cézannes to an immaculate seaside skatepark, our critics rank the year’s highlights
Adrian Searle, Katy Hessel, Oliver Wainwright and Jonathan Jones
20, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM
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