A Lion’s Watermelon by Adam Rouhana (2024).
South West Bank
This year, much of the art addresses exile, diaspora, migration and colonial violence.
Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican.
Dion Barrett/Barbican Centre
The bright pink fabric swaying gently in the wind stands in stark contrast to the grey tones of the brutalist architectural complex.
Enzo Mari in front of his works, The Nature Series. Left is No. 1: La Mela with Elio Mari and right, No. 2: La Pera (1961).
Ramak Fazel/Danese Milano/Design Museum
The exhibition is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get close to Mari’s design process.
The Legislative Assembly/Chandigarh-Duncid and Independence Square in Ghana.
Wikimedia Commons
The style was redefined by newly independent nations of the 20th century, who wanted to create an identity detached from their colonial past.
Yoko Ono with her art piece, Glass Hammer (1967).
Clay Perry/Tate
For over seven decades, Ono’s radical ideas have contributed to powerful social ideas such as peace, freedom, equality and democracy.
Bleeker Street
A thrillingly accurate Stone Age horror, a violent Chilean wester, a sumptuous food romance, a comforting rom-com and a new look at a master painter’s love of fashion.
An installation in the Cute exhibition at Somerset House.
David Parry
The show is divided into sections which all valiantly attempt to define “cute”. But the word is resistant to definition.
Victoria Art Gallery
A loving look at the artists who made the children’s publisher so popular.
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Montserrat.
Montserrat Tourism Division
One prominent theme is a reevaluation of Ireland’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
A scene from The Peasants.
Vertigo
An oil-painted instant cult classic, the Game Awards nominees and more.
Painting, Smoking, Eating by Philip Guston (1973).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/The Estate of Philip Guston
Guston’s complex engagement with racialised evil caused a contentious three-year delay in the exhibition opening.
Dior Men summer 2023 group shot in front of a Charleston reconstruction.
Brett Lloyd
The Bloomsbury group’s distaste for formality helped to set the foundations for how we dress today.
Imponderabilia at the RA.
Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
PA/David Parry
The Missing Thread is a careful and honest curation of black identity and displacement.
A World In Common at Tate Modern.
Tate Modern/Lucy Green
A World in Common is a European exhibition with African content, rather than a space that invites conversations and engagement that go beyond the images themselves.
George Torode
New AI exhibit asks visitors whether they would trust an AI robot to look after their pets.
Yevonde prints hanging to dry in the studio of artist Katayoun Dowlatshahi.
Katayoun Dowlatshahi
Yevonde’s photographs celebrated women’s creativity, ingenuity and individuality which, she argued, was often expressed through colour.
Cerise sequin sari from the spring/summer 2023 collection.
Courtesy of Ashish Shah
A new exhibition pays homage to the king of sequins, who combines detailed, traditional techniques with unconventional materials.
Sasha Huber film still from Rentyhorn.
Courtesy the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
The Provinces of Spain: Castile, by Sorolla, (1912-13).
The Hispanic Society of America, New York/Royal Academy
During the medieval and early modern era, the Iberian Peninsula was an extraordinary cultural melting pot.