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Bridget Riley: Pleasures of Sight
The Lightbox celebrates the pioneering Op artist’s 90th birthday with this wide-ranging retrospective
Lines of continuity – learning from Bridget Riley’s prints
An expanded catalogue raisonné of the artist’s prints sheds new light on her pioneering approach to colour and composition
Bridget Riley: Paintings, 1963-2015
This focused display brings together a group of major paintings by Bridget Riley (b.1931) spanning over 50 years of the artist’s…
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat
In 1959 Bridget Riley painted a copy of Georges Seurat’s Bridge at Courbevoie, one of the highlights of The Courtauld…
An Art History Lesson from Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion
‘I was looking at Cézanne along Matisse’s lines’
Bridget Riley
FINAL WEEK Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961–2014 surveys the artist’s use of the curve motif in a career spanning…
‘A visceral assault on the senses’
Bridget Riley’s monumental abstract paintings are as mysterious as they are mesmerising
The contemplative power of contemporary stained glass
Recent commissions of stained-glass windows from David Hockney and Bridget Riley tell of a powerful, if suprising contemporary interest in the medium
London Diary
Be won over by Ai Weiwei, blown away by Bridget Riley, and get lost in the National Theatre’s concrete corridors this week
Highlights: ‘Somewhat Abstract’ at Nottingham Contemporary
Bridget Riley and Francis Bacon feature in this exhibition of work from the Arts Council Collection
Courtney J. Martin to leave Yale for the Rauschenberg Foundation
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
How Mary Quant defined the look of Swinging London
Sadie Frost’s documentary about the designer is hardly original, but then Quant didn’t actually invent the miniskirt – and it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of her genius
Artist of the Year
Steve McQueen This has been a busy year for Steve McQueen by anyone’s standards. A career retrospective at Tate Modern…
Have corporate art collections had their day?
The financial impact of Covid-19 forced British Airways to sell some of its most valuable art over the summer. Will other businesses follow suit?
A socially distanced stroll around the galleries
Photographs by Gordon Parks and a panoramic painting by Dale Lewis feature amid an unusually plentiful offering in London this summer
School of rock – inside the new-look Aberdeen Art Gallery
After a £35m renovation and expansion, the granite city can finally display its collections in the manner they deserve
Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings
A selection of studies and sketches shows how the definition of drawing has happily ballooned in recent decades
Frieze Masters broadens its horizons
A Botticelli portrait and an ancient bronze hedgehog are among the must-see artworks at this year’s event
Kinetic art – a field that has always refused to stand still
From Calder to Kusama, modern and contemporary artists have created many different versions of kinetic art
The oldest drawing in the world has been discovered – but is it art?
A 73,000-year-old fragment of stone marked with red lines raises questions about the nature of aesthetic experience
12 Days: Highlights of 2016
Digby Warde-Aldam anticipates a sensory overload in 2016 as Bosch and Bridget Riley take the stage