Digby Warde-Aldam is a freelance writer based in Paris.
The late painter’s untamed depictions of the city are some of the most exciting works of art produced in Britain in the 20th century
The artist did his best to destroy any traces of his work as a designer, but the little that survives offers new perspectives on his art
Taking photographs as a starting point, the artist unearths the hidden connections between European colonialism and modern-day Africa
The self-taught artist died tragically young at the age of 35, but there’s no denying the talent he demonstrated in his all-too-brief career
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
The Lebanese artist’s new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it
This long overdue retrospective shows that there was very little Nicolas de Staël coudn’t do as a painter
The parc des Buttes-Chaumont was meant to be a ’Tuileries of the people’, but the crowning glory of Haussman’s Paris has fallen on hard times
The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
This curious film about the painter Edward Brezinski suggests that not all forgotten artists are candidates for rehabilitation
With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry
Drawing, video, sculpture and performance – no medium is out of bounds for the titan of American art
Lucas made her name as one of the more provocative YBAs. Two decades later, her work continues to surprise
The artist’s ongoing record of what was not there becomes more thought-provoking as time passes
Pore over Matisse’s prized possessions and get a glimpse into Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s home at these fascinating exhibitions
Waddington Custot celebrates Beuys’s boxing skills, while a mysterious British artist steals the show at Bagshawe Fine Art
The Kassel leg of Documenta 14 has just opened, but will it fare batter than its much-criticised Athens counterpart?
Wasn’t this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition supposed to do away with grand curatorial conceits?
It tanked in 1967, but the band’s debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was still the best pop cultural achievement of its decade
Like the city itself, the strength of this fair is in its variety
Spring is here and the sun is out, so choose your exhibitions wisely…
Go and see Joel Sternfeld’s strange and beautiful photographs of the USA at Beetles+Huxley while you still can
You can stumble across good art in the strangest places…
A look around some of London’s most talked-about winter exhibitions
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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Seeing London through Frank Auerbach’s eyes
The late painter’s untamed depictions of the city are some of the most exciting works of art produced in Britain in the 20th century