Moore at YSP; Salon du Dessin highlights; Basquiat in Ontario; a bigger and better Drawing Biennial; and Dryden Goodwin's enigmatic film
It is satisfying to see Benglis finally given proper recognition in the UK
Dryden Goodwin's enigmatic film grapples with history and identity
'Back to A Land' at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the finer points of Moore's sculptural practice
Few artists have garnered as much mystique in life and death as Jean Michel Basquiat
George Vasey recommends Raoul de Keyser's work in Edinburgh; Vanessa Remington introduces the art of the garden at the Queen's Gallery; and 'Classicicity' explores ancient and modern art in tandem
De Keyser’s great talent is to keep oppositional ideas in the balance
Personal favourites from Maastricht, including an ancient Egyptian fragment and an unfinished old master painting
Peder Balke's sublime paintings of Norway off-set the contemporary artist's own exploratory work
This may be hard to believe, but not all the best art is in Maastricht this week.
American cantaloupes at the Louvre; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit; Feminism and Niki de Saint Phalle
Is it better to throw in your lot with dozens of other Sunday painters than go to art school?
The genre took a while to catch on in America, but when artists did take up still-life painting they made it their own
From shooting pictures to colourful 'Nanas', Saint Phalle's work tackles feminist issues head on
John Gerrard's bleak vision of technological evolution; photography and human rights; and the forgotten master of still life, Henri de Fromantiou
As a study in hyperreality, John Gerrard's digital reconstruction of a Google data farm is utterly unnerving
On Kawara at the Guggenheim New York; Mariana Castillo Deball at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Leon Underwood at Pallant House; Mackintosh at RIBA
Can photography influence social and political events, or just record them?
RIBA’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition is very much an architect’s show, consisting almost entirely of architectural drawings and watercolours. Only two images of Mackintosh himself – one photograph and a portrait by Francis H. Newbury – are featured, and his private life is mentioned only fleetingly. But the progression of his architectural career, his key achievements and […]
First and foremost Mariana Castillo Deball is a biographer of objects
Objects become images, images become objects, in the artist's latest show
On Kawara is famous for his date paintings, but he had other ways of marking and thinking about time
Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints...
