Fatema Ahmed is deputy editor of Apollo.

Murder of Crows, (1999), Nicola Hicks, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York; © Nicola Hicks

Sinister statues and shadowy portraits

Plus: Brice Marden’s painstaking exploration of paint and an Italian protégé of Duchamp makes his debut in London

1 Oct 2017
Jeune garcçon endormi, à mi–hauteur, profil gauche, (detail), Jean–Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). Galerie Eric Coatelem (price on application)

The best of the new Biennale Paris

The Biennale des Antiquaires returns in its new guise as the Biennale Paris with an impressive showing of French fine and decorative arts

7 Sep 2017
William Henry Fox Talbot's mousetrap camera (c. 1835).

Do UK museums take photography seriously?

The transfer of the Royal Photographic Society’s collection from Bradford to London raises questions about the past, present and future of photography in museums

16 May 2017

Mondrian gets his moment

The Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of Mondrian’s works in the world – no wonder that it’s at the centre of the centenary celebrations of De Stijl this year

25 Mar 2017
Bernardo Bembo, Statesman and Ambassador of Venice

Flemish portraits, science fiction, and an avant-garde centenary

Antwerp’s Old Master treasures are on tour, while the Barbican is staging a sprawling but ambitious science fiction exhibition

5 Jan 2017
Portraits (2016), Tacita Dean

Smoking with Hockney and Tacita Dean

Plus: lining up the evidence at Michael Hoppen Gallery; Fausto Melotti’s ingenious sculptures; and an unsung branch of the Bauhaus

24 Sep 2016

Balancing the books at Yale University Press in London

Yale University Press in London is the world’s leading art publisher. What does its recent restructuring say about the press – and about art publishing in general?

30 Aug 2016

Baldessari, Burtynsky and a lot of David Bowie at Photo London

It’s the variety and range of photographs on show that will ultimately come to define the fair

18 May 2016

‘It is what it is.’ Dan Flavin’s iconic light fittings in the Ikon Gallery

Flavin’s fluorescent light pieces continue to transform the spaces in which they are installed. But time is changing how we see the pieces, too

6 May 2016

12 Days: Highlights of 2016

Fatema Ahmed looks forward to John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery, a second edition of Photo London, and a mysterious show curated by Michel Houellebecq

28 Dec 2015

Hal Foster on art after 1989 and the rise of the zombie

Hal Foster talks to Fatema Ahmed about art after the end of the Cold War, the cultural dominance of zombies, and why he eavesdrops in museums

9 Dec 2015

Photo London preview

This is the week to see top photography in and of London – but don’t confine yourself to the main fair at Somerset House

19 May 2015

The forward-thinking director behind Frankfurt’s museums

Max Hollein discusses the challenges and rewards of running not one, but three, institutions

17 Apr 2015

Shadowland: John Skoog’s tribute to cinema’s golden age

Faded cinemas and enigmatic landscapes hark back to Hollywood’s heyday at Pilar Corrias

1 Apr 2015

Revolutionary whimsy: ‘Ruth Ewan: Back to the Fields’ at Camden Arts Centre

Is the artist’s latest show anything more than a charming tribute to a failed experiment?

9 Feb 2015

‘Never Surrender’ – Luc Tuymans speaks out at his London show

Tuymans made his thoughts about Belgian copyright law known at his exhibition opening last week

4 Feb 2015

In the Frame: Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman talks to Fatema Ahmed about his new film, National Gallery

14 Jan 2015

The Fondation Louis Vuitton opens in Paris

The Fondation Louis Vuitton is the new home for the personal and corporate art collections of Bernard Arnault

10 Jan 2015

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

There’s plenty to tempt the art-loving cinema-goer this year

30 Dec 2014