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Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22

Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

Mischievous, moving and troubled tales of female oppression unspool across the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s drawings, which show an intuitive touch her paintings lack

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16

Lovers, haters, rivals and chums – Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists review

What happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insights

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2025

Motion in Stillness – compelling exhibition explores the art of dance and movement

The word “choreography” comes from the ancient Greek χορεία (choreia) and γραφή (graphos). It means the writing of movement. In Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement, presented by Vortic and Victoria Miro at the Victoria Miro in London, a group of painters and sculptures are taking…

The Conversation · Dec 6, 2024

Out of office: what the Wallpaper editors have been doing this week

A week of jetsetting has seen the editors in Tokyo, Milan, Vienna, Miami, New York and drinking Guinness with Jonathan Anderson in London

Wallpaper · Nov 22, 2024

‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’: the astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers

From ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of black portraits and nudes that they will be remembered

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2024

The Time Is Always Now: Soulscapes review – the Black figure reframed to momentous effect

The presence, and absence, of Black figures in western art is turned on its head in an exhilarating showcase of 21st-century artists from the African diaspora. Elsewhere, some of the same artists reimagine landscape

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

‘This can’t be art, there’s too much fun!’ Doron Langberg on his sex-fuelled queer rave paintings

The leading light of art movement the New Queer Intimists explains why his lifesize, explicit nightclub works had to be smeared into life with his hands

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2024

Do you remember the first time? Jonathan Coe, Róisín Murphy and more on their artistic debuts

What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023

Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins review – sacred, seductive and sensational

Full of giddying detail and unfathomable mystery, these large, luxurious and deeply complex paintings are among the most beguiling works the artist has ever made

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2023