Installation view of Unravel The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican.
Jemima Yong/Barbican Art Gallery
Textiles have a deceptive simplicity that conceals their potential for subversion and political dissent.
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.
Behind the Red Moon, a large scale sculptural installation at the Tate Turbine Hall in London.
Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty Images
An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
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.
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.
Moffat Takadiwa, left, and curator Fadzai Muchemwa in front of the work Bhiro ne Bepa on his solo show Vestiges of Colonialism.
Images courtesy Lifang Zhang
Using found materials from dump sites, the large scale works examine the residues of colonialism.
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.
Untitled by Ugandan artist Peter Mulindwa.
James Muriuki courtesy Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.
Hockney’s 25th of June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed).
Annely Juda Fine Art
Hockney’s 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures depict joy in the humdrum of domesticity.
Dilomprizulike chooses garbage as his main material. His inspiration is from his father.
Dilomprizulike WaitingForBus AfricaRemix installation
Dilomprizulike’s startling vision has both mesmerised and befuddled art critics and audiences by equal turns.
Collection of timber samples from the Powerhouse Museum’s historic collection, 1886-1932.
Zan Wimberley
Eucalyptusdom is a testament to the utilitarian and cultural life of a remarkable tree.
Image author supplied, taken by Pamela Pirovic
At a time of pandemic, an extraordinary photographic project unfolded between sheets of clear plastic.
Anonymous accounts of racism in gallery spaces criticise the industry for failing to tackle systemic discrimination.
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Anonymous accounts show how urgently contemporary galleries need to confront legacies of discrimination
Majestic c.1929 Collection: Bobby Haas and Haas Moto Museum.
© Haas Moto Galleries LLC. Photographer: Grant Schwingle
An exhibition of 100 motorcycles celebrates them as revved up works of art, worthy of our desire.
Arthur Streeton The vanishing forest 1934, oil on canvas, 122.5 x 122.5 cm.
On loan to the Art Gallery of Ballarat from the Estate of Margery Pierce
A major new exhibition presents a nuanced view of Arthur Streeton who, in his lifetime, was praised as being the artist ‘who has shown us our land as no one else has done’.
Untitled. 2015. Pen and Ink on Paper. 60 x 71 cm.
Ernst van der Wal
Beautiful art can provide hope and healing.
Marcel Duchamp, ‘From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a valise)’ 1935-41, 1963-65 (contents); Series F, 1966 edition, mixed media, 41.3 x 38.4 x 9.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Mme Marcel Duchamp, 1994-43-1.
© Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2019
Some 50 years after his death, a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales shows why the work of Marcel Duchamp continues to challenge the very idea of what art may be.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Pretty Beach, 2019, installation view, The National 2019: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, painted wood, silver plate ball chain, crystals, audio, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
© the artist, photograph: Jacquie Manning.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s installation Pretty Beach tells a story from the artist’s childhood to explore mortality and grief.
Installation view of Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor on display at NGV International from 5 April – 4 August 2019 © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia.
Brooke Holm
A new exhibition charting Alexander Calder’s atypical path into the modernist art canon is elegant, dramatic and great fun.