Frieze
Shuvinai Ashoona
Crawling with tentacled creatures, flipper-footed beasts and beaked hybrids, Shuvinai Ashoona’s colourful pencil drawings are playful and fantastical depictions of Inuit life in the Canadian Arctic.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
Frieze
Marcel Dzama
Canoe Lake, in Algonquin Park, Ontario, is where the great Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson occasionally lived and worked – and where, at the age of 39, he drowned.
2 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
Frieze
'My work is not illustrational: it's associative, intuitive.'
LYNNE TILLMAN Joan, you’ve just come from MoMA.
9 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
Frieze
The Curious Cosmopolitanism of Ali Sultan Issa
How research into historic Afro-Asian solidarities drew a filmmaker into the path of a Zanzibari political revolutionary
6 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
Frieze
Cool Connection
ON A STREET IN HARLEM, New York, in 1963, a Black child runs back and forth.
3 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
Frieze
Faerie Tales
ON A HOT SUMMER’S DAY, in a cramped Manhattan apartment, Leslie Bright totters between the telephone and the dresser, complaining of old age and heartache.
5 min |
Issue 243 - May 2024
ArtReview
"One day this boy..."
How David Wojnarowicz gave me life
6 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Isabelle Frances McGuire
Through kitbashing and the hacking of readymades, an artist explores what digital visual culture might look like in material form
6 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Midcareerism
What's an artist to do when no longer dewy and not yet long in the tooth? Martin Herbert surveys the options, none of them pretty
3 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Art Encounters Biennial My Rhino is Not a Myth: art science fictions
Various venues, Timişoara 19 May-16 July
3 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Southern Discomfort
A series of upcoming biennials promise to explore the art of the 'Global South'. But what does that mean? And is the term of any practical use?
7 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
No pain, no gain?
What's primary about Matthew Barney's SECONDARY
8 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Fine Young Cannibals
A spate of recent glitzy films have asked us to eat the rich. But what, asks Amber Husain, are we really swallowing?
3 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Mutant Media
Animation and gaming design studios aren’t just for entertainment, claims Jamie Sutcliffe, they’re a geneticist’s lab for producing our spliced bio- cybernetic future
4 min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Diego Marcon
\"In general when I work, it's not like I'm looking for something and I find moles, it's more like moles find me, they pop up. I don't know why, I just try to remain open to these kinds of visit\"
10+ min |
September 2023
ArtReview
Casey Reas
Crypto has crashed and burned, but NFT visual culture is the better for it, and here's why, says the pioneering artist and programmer
10 min |
September 2023
Wallpaper
'What happens when nothing happens'
This season's defining looks draw on ordinary materials presented in extraordinary compositions, an approach that resonates with the writings of Georges Perec, who explored the minute magnificence of everyday life
4 min |
September 2023
Wallpaper
Different Class
A new exhibition, ‘Pope of Trash’, celebrates the weird and wonderful world of cult filmmaker John Waters
4 min |
August 2023
Country Life UK
A case of mistaken identity
A painting has been misattributed not once, but twice, and British dealers head for New York
5 min |
May 10, 2023
Country Life UK
A brush with plants
This month, the botanical artist Emma Tennant celebrates her 80th birthday–and 75 years of gardening and painting. Steven Desmond eagerly anticipates her forthcoming exhibition
6 min |
May 03, 2023
Wallpaper
Björn Weckström – Elements of Reflection
Björn Weckström's epic sculptures and chunky jewellery shine a light on the human condition
7 min |
April 2023
Wallpaper
At home with Sebastian Herkner
The German designer and 2023 Wallpaper* Design Award winner finds inspiration in his extensive travels around the globe and the spirit of optimism of his adopted hometown of Offenbach
3 min |
April 2023
Wallpaper
French class
Parisian creative agency Art Recherche Industrie's new HQ translates a 19th-century landmark into a chic open-plan office worth leaving home for
3 min |
March 2023
Wallpaper
Best Adaptation
Pictures from Home, at Studio 54, New York
1 min |
February 2023
Wallpaper
Best elements of surprise
Furnishings that take an unexpected turn
1 min |
February 2023
Wallpaper
Best Rock Formations
'Pebble Rubble' collection, by Front, for Moroso, upholstered in 'Arda' fabric, by Front, for Kvadrat Febrik
1 min |
February 2023
Wallpaper
Go West
From Senegal to Nigeria, and from Niger to the Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa is vast and brimming with potential. A powerful mix of peoples and cultures, and in some nations, exponential demographic and economic growth, makes this part of the world a locus of change. The result? A dynamic new generation of studios that operate in the architecture realm and push the boundaries of their field towards a promising future. Architects, spatial designers and builders converge here to create a unique, rich melting pot of fresh thinking and innovation that will no doubt reshape the way we think about architecture globally.
10+ min |
January 2023
Wallpaper
Pillow Talk
Reclining, holiday are behind artist Lukas or Fendi at Design Miami
3 min |
December 2022
Wallpaper
Demas Nwoko – Eternal Grace
Perfectly adapted to their geographical and cultural environment, the low-maintenance landmark buildings of pioneering Nigerian artist-designer Demas Nwoko have stood the test of time
9 min |
October 2022
Wallpaper
Seoul
Each time the rain clears after a summer monsoon, a new Seoul is born: umbrellas become parasols and the grey urban vista makes way for a vibrant cityscape with a lush, mountainous backdrop. In recent years, Seoul has undergone another sort of rebirth, as our arts editor Harriet Lloyd-Smith finds out. After K-pop, K-beauty, K-style and K-cinema, it's now K-art's turn. With new galleries, bustling bars, and soon, the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul, all eyes are on the South Korean capital
3 min |