© Gerhard Richter 2018 (28112018)

Gerhard Richter, Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt put on a show

Their joint commission for the Shed includes choirs, orchestras and lots of colour – but is it smaller than the sum of its parts?

26 Apr 2019
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation (detail; 1980), Robert Mapplethorpe. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs

The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down

30 Mar 2019
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X (1999) by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, installed at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach.

Typing tools, tropical trees and a whole lot of sunshine – the new Norton Museum of Art

Norman Foster’s expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach has been unveiled – and the institution’s new look is enticingly offbeat

8 Feb 2019
General Moses (Harriet Tubman) (1965), Charles White.

Dignity and divinity in the portraits of Charles White

Throughout his career White devoted his talent to celebrating the lives of other black Americans

5 Nov 2018

Reading the dreams of Robert Crumb

The great cartoonist is publishing 40-years’ worth of dreams and nightmares – and they’re every bit as crude as you’d image

27 Sep 2018