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.
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense (Design Museum)
Using objects to try and make sense of the world is the core of the current Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at the Design Museum. He questions the value of things and if time changes that.