Stones, bones and invented languages – with a side of sweet potatoes – lie at the heart of Abdullah Al Saadi’s prolific, itinerant practice. For more than 40 years, he has traversed the craggy, ...

Does Andrea Long Chu’s compendium of new and previously unpublished critical work establish her authority in the field, or simply confirm what we already know? In 2023, Andrea Long Chu was awarded the ...

A single, sustained note can sometimes be capable of evoking powerful emotions. South African artist Gabrielle Goliath’s multi-channel, open-sound video installation Elegy (2019) comprises recordings ...

Richard Kriesche Zwillinge (Twins), 1977; Courtesy © The artist and DACS, London One of the puzzling features of Richard Kriesche’s installation Zwillinge (Twins ...

Wassily Kandinsky on the balcony of his Meisterhaus, Dessau, 1929 (courtesy: Centre Pompidou/Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris; photograph: Nina Kandinsky) In light of recent discussions about art as ...

In the autumn of 1892, Mary Louise Fuller left New York, where she enjoyed modest success in vaudeville, and travelled to Paris intent on reinvention as a dancer. Loie, as she’d lately begun to style ...

At the far end of a tiny courtyard in Bethnal Green, perched above the surrounding rooftops, back gardens and allotments, I find Donna Huddleston’s studio. The courtyard itself is a glimpse of a ...

A pale tetra fish swims around a vast obsidian tank, while another bobs on its side at the top of the water, perhaps ailing from debilitating swim bladder disease (Circadian Dilemma [El Día del Ojo], ...

Robert Longo, Untitled (from the series 'Men in the Cities'), 1981, charcoal on paper, 244x152 cm ‘Pictures’ was the title given to an exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977 at Artists Space in ...

This is the strangest family portrait I’ve ever seen. A ghoul dressed like a drunk ballroom dancer talks to his son, his wizened double, who looks somehow older than his dad; between them stands a ...

In the museum’s soaring hall children play under bubbles that come from Teresa Margolles’ piece En el aire (In the Air, 2003). Running, laughing, catching, they are fascinated by the glistening, ...

In the mid-1990s, I was studying at Dartington College of Arts, an institution in the English countryside that had once been part of a revolutionary social experiment but was now beleaguered by a ...