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Wallpaper gift guide: shopping with lifestyle editor Caragh McKay

A perfect puppy, a scary pot and a Hungarian lament make for a gift guide brimming with strange delights

Wallpaper · Dec 19, 2023

From a 100-mile city to a desert ski resort: why is Saudi Arabia spending billions on architectural ‘gigaprojects’?

The Saudi crown prince is creating wildly ambitious projects masterminded by renowned architects, curators and designers. The upshot is either progressive modernisation or image-laundering, depending who you ask

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

UK museums agree to collective action to tackle the climate crisis

UK Museum Cop held at Tate Modern says the sector has a ‘responsibility to speak out about climate and biodiversity crisis’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking in our midst

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023

Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering

Finally this much-postponed, angsted-over show has arrived in London and Guston’s anti-fascist feelings could not be more evident

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

Sarah Lucas, Philip Guston and women revolt: the best art and architecture of autumn 2023

An American great for the age of Trump, a baroque master’s feminine side and 20 contentious years for women’s art are among the highlights ahead

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2023

Tate Modern: A World in Common

During the colonial period, when Africa was almost entirely divided up by European powers, “the camera became something of an imperial device”, said Sarah Cascone on Artnet.

The Week · Jul 21, 2023

A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography – Tate Modern show celebrates new generation of artists, but misses a trick

The last large survey exhibition of African photography by a major western gallery was In/Sight at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1996. Twenty-seven years later, Tate Modern is introducing a British audience to the next generation of African photographers.

The Conversation · Jul 14, 2023

Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy review: starchitects show we can have better buildings... if we try

This is an unusual exhibition about the working method of the designers of Tate Modern and the Laban Centre

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2023

‘We’re contemporary, we’re traditional, we’re unique’: the African photographers rewriting the rules

From female bikers decked out in pink to dreamy desert tableaux, a new exhibition replaces two centuries of western influence with Africans’ own liberated visions

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2023