A guide to urban living
In her mid-career survey, Jacqueline Donachie explores the hidden cruelties of the urban environment
Scotland is waking up to the importance of women Surrealists
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has put together a modest but eye-opening display of works created and inspired by female Surrealists
Escape the Fringe! A guide to the best of the Edinburgh Art Festival
Art can easily get forgotten in the mayhem of the city’s summer programmes, but it’s worth a detour to these exhibitions
‘I like the idea of getting lost.’ Damián Ortega in Edinburgh
The Mexican artist discusses his work, his experimental education and the importance of tools, as his solo exhibition opens at Fruitmarket Gallery
‘It’s you who now give expression to my thoughts’: Lygia Clark’s art in London
The Brazilian artist was relentlessly inventive, moving from abstract drawing to ‘critter’-like sculptures and, ultimately, participatory works
Selfies, sexuality and self-parody: when artists perform for the camera
Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along
Marisol Escobar: 1930–2016
Marisol’s powerful, Pop-inspired sculptures deserve to be far better known, particularly outside the US
In praise of modern Scottish women
How did the Scottish women who went to progressive art schools fare in a reactionary art world?
Turner Prize art tours Scotland on a bus
Who cares whether it’s parochial? The Travelling Gallery exhibition is a fun and engaging idea
The great contemporary art hidden in York’s historic buildings
For cutting edge culture, head straight for the church
Joseph Cornell steps into the limelight
A major retrospective of Joseph Cornell’s work presents a stay-at-home artist who was obsessed with travel.
A tour through the wastelands: don’t miss Prunella Clough at Osborne Samuel
Clough excelled at making art from the ugly and the overlooked
Making it New: the trend for recreating exhibitions
What’s behind the current appetite for reinstalling, re-exhibiting, and restaging landmark shows?
Gift-giving: Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield
It is satisfying to see Benglis finally given proper recognition in the UK
There’s more to Moore than his monumental sculptures
‘Back to A Land’ at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the finer points of Moore’s sculptural practice
Time, Place, Date: On Kawara’s work at the Guggenheim NYC
On Kawara is famous for his date paintings, but he had other ways of marking and thinking about time
Now you see her, now you don’t: Sturtevant at MoMA
Last chance to visit New York’s exhibition of conceptual copycat art
Art and protest in Latin America
Two exhibitions in Buenos Aires this summer explored how Latin American artists have responded to the region’s social and economic upheavals
Review: ‘Radical Geometry’, South American art at the Royal Academy, London
The diversity of South American abstraction is one of its main strengths
Present: Marina Abramović at the Serpentine
What’s it like to be part of Abramović’s latest performance, and part of its documentation?
Abstraction and Representation: women artists and contemporary art
The complex relationship between women artists and abstract art is only just being explored
Cultural Confidence: Scotland’s GENERATION
This huge series of contemporary art displays is a timely reminder of Scotland’s cultural diversity in an eventful year
Review: Tania Kovats’ bottled oceans at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Oceans’ is a sophisticated response to a multitudinous, powerful subject
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