The First Page: ARTMargins
MAJA & REUBEN FOWKES
A special issue of journal ARTMargins that investigates the records of the transformation of nature in socialist art history.
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard
MARTHE LISSON
Zvakazarurwa means ‘revelations,’ a word whose meaning offers a prism of associations and connections within Portia Zvavahera’s work and practice.
The Imaginary Institution of India at the Barbican
JAGJEET LALLY
From a state of Emergency to the first nuclear tests, 1975 to 1998 marked a period of significant change in India that is presented through the lens of modern and contemporary Indian artists.
Intimate Objects
ALICE FOXEN, MARTHE LISSON
A conversation with ceramicist Alice Foxen who finds inspiration in discarded objects that she finds in the streets and turns into delicate and intimate sculptures.
Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery
MAJA FOWKES
A new exhibition at the William Morris Gallery shows that British landscapes are more than bucolic meadows and gently rolling hills. Historically, they have been sites of radical social action and arenas for societal transformation.
Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery
REBECCA EMPSON
Public debate around the climate catastrophe has become increasingly fraught, divisive and desperate. The exhibition Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery offers a fresh approach.
Cinema as Ritual
OLIVIA ARIGHO-STILES
A man runs, to escape his burning skin. He collapses in a river: a voice whispers to him, “you are killing yourselves and killing me too.” All the while a plane looms ominously in the sky.
Cecilia Vicuña at the Tate Modern
ADRIANA SUÁREZ DELUCCHI
My visit to Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern was an immersive experience. Although situated in the open plan space of the Turbine Hall, I was pulled into a far more intimate and inward place.
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts
MARTHE LISSON
Despite the instruction at the entrance to the exhibition – Let the Drama Begin at the End – we start at the beginning of William Kentridge’s artistic career. In the 1980s, while acting and directing …