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August is art’s time of slumber, a month absolutely bereft of exhibitions as all the galleries take an entirely undeserved break from the entirely...
Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters London 2024: everything you need to know
The mighty Frieze London and Frieze Masters art fairs have reigned over the London art calendar for years. This October, both fairs are set up again in...
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Letizia Battaglia: ‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’
Letizia Battaglia: ‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’
Letizia Battaglia was a witness, she was there. She saw the mafia tearing Italy apart in the 1970s, murdering its sons, raping its daughters, and she...
‘Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf’
‘Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf’
TJ Boulting doesn’t smell great. Actually, it stinks. A gross, acrid odour greets you as you walk downstairs into the gallery; the stench of...
Hew Locke: ‘What Have We Here’
Hew Locke: ‘What Have We Here’
No object is just an object: everything is a symbol. And in Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s excellent exhibition of items from the British...
Francis Bacon: ‘Human Presence’
Francis Bacon: ‘Human Presence’
There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis Bacon; to how many times you can talk about viscerality, the anguish of existence, the torment of...
Mire Lee: ‘Open Wound’
Mire Lee: ‘Open Wound’
A vast engine spins, spilling noxious, viscous liquid onto the floor of the Turbine Hall. Mire Lee’s machine is draped in tentacles which ooze and flop...
Haegue Yang: ‘Leap Year’
Haegue Yang: ‘Leap Year’
The everyday has radical poetic potential in Haegue Yang’s work. The South Korean artist looks at blinds, envelopes, drying racks and paper and she sees...
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Eight amazing things to see at Frieze London 2024
Frieze London’s big tent is back, and there’s a lot of art to see – here are the best bits
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Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time...
National Gallery
National Gallery
Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from...
National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and...
Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a...
Tate Modern
Tate Modern
The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...
Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery
This East End stalwart reopened in 2009 following a major redesign and expansion that saw the Grade II listed building transformed into a vibrant, holistic...