The recent resurgence of enthusiasm for indoor plants speaks to something deeply human: a longing for calm, connection, and beauty within our living spaces.
Nudity started being an important subject in art in ancient Greece. The male body was celebrated at sports competitions or religious festivals, it was seen as a symbol of the best aspects of humanity.
Against the darkened Kravis Studio at MoMA, a network of taut wires spans the space on a diagonal, evoking the strings of an abstract, celestial instrument — less a web than a spatial tuning device.
Among the highlights in the exhibition opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice next year will be a painting created by a teenage Lucian Freud.
The 18-month residency includes time to explore the New York museum’s collection and meet with staff and scholars, plus opportunities to work with Vacheron Constantin’s experts in Geneva.
The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonThe first contemporary artist to take over the gallery’s main space, her signature gaping mouths, lolling tongues and broken teeth are ripe with hyper-colourful symbolism.
Megan Rooney painstakingly creates works with layer upon layer of paint – and attacks them with a grinder in between. Ahead of a beguiling new show, our writer braves a studio tour.
Hayward Gallery, LondonThe Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disaster.