The Last Caravaggio (National Gallery)
If you had to sum up the life and work of Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio in one word, it’d be drama. A dramatic life, with equally dramatic paintings.
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In (National Portrait Gallery)
Francesca Woodman (1958-81) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), two of the most influential photographers, are being showcased in Portrait to Dream In at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The Secret Lives of Plants (Gallery of Everything)
The exhibition borrows its title from the controversial book, published in 1973, ‘The Secret Lives of Plants’, in which the authors claimed that plants are beings with emotions and are able to communicate with other creatures like humans.
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (Serpentine)
The first major exhibition of Yinka Shonibare in over twenty years, Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States, on view at the Serpentine South Gallery until early September, features recent sculptures and installations.
Claudia Andujar: Cosmovision (Itau Cultural)
It is on display, in Sao Paulo, ‘Claudia Andujar: Cosmovision,’ a solo show by Claudia Andujar, a groundbreaking photographer and activist.
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art (Barbican)
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art exhibition curated by Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith showcases the works of 50 international artists from the 1960s to today.
Mark Rothko (Fondation Louis Vuitton)
Displayed across four floors of the Frank Gehry designed building, this show features over 115 works from major global institutions and smaller collections, some of which have been rarely displayed.
Lygia Clark: Project for a Planet (Pinacoteca)
In this show, curators Ana Maria Maia and Pollyana Quintella have chosen to bring Clark, rather well-known in the art milieu, to a broader public.
Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s (Raven Row)
Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Ione Saldanha, Willys de Castro, Djanira, Abdias do Nascimento. These are only a few of the thirty artists featured in Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s, currently on view at London’s Raven Row until early May
Dutch Masters (National Gallery)
Investigating the figure of the brilliant, prolific and fascinating Rembrandt Van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 – Amsterdam 1669) is not easy.
Oscar Murillo: Masses (WIELS)
Turner Prize winner, Oscar Murillo, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on issues such as migration, globalisation, and identity.
Entangled Pasts, 1768-now (Royal Academy)
Entangled Pasts, 1768-now is perhaps one of the most powerful and ambitious exhibitions to take place at the RA in decades.
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You (Serpentine)
The show “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You” extends beyond the gallery walls. Barbara Kruger created designs for three London black cabs, digital installation, Silent Writings, 2009/2024, presented in collaboration with Outernet Arts.
Anna Maria Maiolino: To want not to want, to desire, and to fear (Luisa Strina)
In São Paulo, Luisa Strina Gallery is now showing a solo show by Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942), an Italian-born Brazilian artist. It is entitled ‘To want not to want, to desire, and to fear’ and will be on display till 16 March 2024.
Indigenous Histories (MASP)
‘Indigenous Histories’ is one of the four shows now on display at MASP, not to mention their long-term show with European and Brazilian art pieces. It is part of the theme of the year 2023 at MASP: Indigenous Histories, which has been orienting the events and shows held at the museum.
Pope.L: Hospital (South London)
William Pope.L, better known as Pope.L, was an artist and educator who confronted and changed the mainstream contemporary art scene through his provocative, often absurdist works that explored issues of race, gender, and class in the United States.
Philip Guston (Tate)
Philip Guston (1913-1980) was born in Montreal, the youngest of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine (Hayward Gallery)
In Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, a large retrospective of the great Japanese artist at the Hayward Gallery, the visitor is introduced to a rich and vast landscape of photographs that spans his 50-year practice.
Antônio Obá: Revoada (Pinacoteca)
The show consists of 20 paintings and one site-specific installation. The paintings develop themes relating to childhood and are constructed upon a vertical movement.
Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology (Barbican)
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology exhibition featuring 250 works by nearly 50 women and gender nonconforming artists. Photographs, films, installations exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, spanning decades, continents, and media, offering perspectives on our ongoing ecological crisis.
Sonia Gomes: Symphony of Colours (Pinacoteca)
‘Sonia Gomes: Symphony of Colours’ is Sonia Gomes’ show currently on display at the Pinacoteca do Estado museum, a top local art institution.
Claudette Johnson: Presence (Courtauld)
At a time when prominent UK arts institutions are amplifying women’s voices, The Courtauld has taken a significant step by presenting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to a black woman
Turner and Bonington: Watercolours from the Wallace Collection (Wallace Collection)
The exhibition showcases a carefully selected collection of hidden watercolours by Turner and Bonington, both renowned for their mastery of the watercolour medium.
Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 (Serpentine)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Frieze London returns to Regent’s Park, showcasing art from 160 galleries spanning 46 countries.
Marina Abramović (Royal Academy of Arts)
Marina Abramović’s major retrospective, the largest in the UK to date, is currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until January 2024.
Maxwell Alexandre: New power: passability, Miss Brazil (Casa SP–Arte)
Since 26 August, a solo show by Maxwell Alexandre has been on display at Casa SP-Arte. The artist, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro city, is globally recognized, having exhibited extensively in Brazil and abroad.
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas (Tate)
Tate cleverly used the walls surrounding this exhibition to engage in a fun conversation between young Sarah and today’s Sarah.
Gabriel Massan & Collaborators: Third World: The Bottom Dimension (Serpentine)
Moved by curiosity as much as ignorance (as I don’t know much about digital games), I went to see the exhibition Third World: The Bottom Dimension, hoping to learn about this experimental project conceptualised by multi-hyphenate artist Gabriel Massan.
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art (National Gallery)
The exhibition explains how modern art evolved from movement to movement, Impressionism to Expressionism, redefining what painting means and its uses to paint what can’t be seen with the eye.
Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms Of Life (Tate)
Sweden artist Hilma Af Klint was born in 1862, 10 years before the birth of Dutch star artist Piet Mondrian. They died in the same year in 1944 but never met, and neither saw each other’s work.