Category: Art
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The Logic of the Impossible: Remedios Varo at Louisiana
At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the first major European retrospective of Remedios Varo reveals an artist whose remarkable paintings bring together science, alchemy, psychology and an imagination entirely her own. The paintings of Remedios Varo operate according to peculiar but convincing rules. Figures travel through forests in elaborate mechanical vehicles, experiment with…
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Remedios Varo: The Architecture of the Imagination
Alchemy, astronomy, mathematics, mysticism and the architecture of the Renaissance converge in the extraordinary paintings of Remedios Varo. One of Surrealism’s most intellectually ambitious artists, she created an entire visual universe in which imagination became a method of investigating reality. In Remedios Varo’s Creation of the Birds (1957), a curious creature with the face of…
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FAIRYLAND: TIM WALKER AND THE POLITICS OF BEING SEEN
At London’s National Portrait Gallery, the photographer who transformed fashion into elaborate theatre turns his imagination towards queer history. With some 250 portraits spanning activists, artists, performers and cultural pioneers, Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends is at once a celebration of difference, an examination of historical visibility and a deeply personal reconsideration of the…
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Athens, Unclassified: The Current Exhibitions at EMST
From experimental music and overlooked Greek avant-gardes to the changing geography of contemporary art, Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art presents an unusually compelling autumn programme. An ordinary metal drying rack, its clothing replaced by silkscreen prints of abstract landscapes, is among the works in Niki Kanagini’s retrospective at Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art.…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Geometry of the Instant Henri Cartier-Bresson invented a way of seeing so complete that it became the unconscious grammar of photography itself. Then, quietly, he put down the camera and went back to drawing. He had always said it was a sketchbook, not a vocation. He meant it. Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris,…
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Saul Bass & The Seventy Seconds That Changed Everything
Saul Bass did not invent the film title sequence. He did something more consequential: he convinced Hollywood that the audience’s first minute and a half was not dead time to be tolerated but a work of art to be made. Everything that followed — in cinema, in corporate identity, in the visual culture of the…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Everyone, All at Once Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted crowds, seasons, proverbs, and catastrophes. He was the first painter to look at ordinary people and decide that their lives were the whole subject. Five centuries later, no one has done it better. In the lower right corner of a painting completed around 1558, a pair…
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The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging
The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…
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Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention
At Sorø Kunstmuseum, an empty room painted by Anna Ancher, a Russian icon of mother and child, and an installation shaped by visitors’ breathing offer three very different encounters with human presence. Their proximity is part of the museum’s interest: a visit can move between domestic observation, religious devotion and the experiments of contemporary art…
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Frieze London 2026: What Deserves Our Attention
Frieze returns to Regent’s Park from 14–18 October. This year’s programme offers a rewarding route through contemporary painting, the politics of materials, domestic architecture and the changing interpretation of modern art. Every October, Frieze concentrates a substantial part of the international art world into a few days in London. Galleries arrive with new work and…
