Sculpture
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The magic mushrooms of ceramic artist Jos Devriendt offer a sculptural trip
By Yoko Choy Last updated
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Isamu Noguchi's unrealised playground design revealed in New York
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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‘I just didn’t fit’: feminist icon Judy Chicago on revolutionising art history
At the de Young Museum, San Francisco, American feminist artist Judy Chicago staged her first ever retrospective. We spoke to the artist about her epic career, filled with patriarchal battles, fierce self-belief, and a lot of smoke
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Body talk: YBA Sarah Lucas meets modern master Auguste Rodin
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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‘Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra’: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Flo Kasearu confronts domestic violence against women in Tallinn
The Estonian artist’s raw and urgent exhibition, ‘Cut Out of Life’ in Tallinn, offers a platform to domestic abuse survivors
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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As Paris begins to reopen, Perrotin introduces a series of spirited cooperative exhibitions
In the name of solidarity, Perrotin has invited 26 Parisian galleries to take part in four consecutive presentations in its Saint-Claude space
By Diane Theunissen Last updated
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Annie Morris’ towering sculptures balance grief, hope and defiance
Annie Morris' forthcoming show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park will present a new series of gravity-defying stack sculptures that draw on personal tragedy and resilience
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Sean Scully on self-belief, election billboards and the perils of rural Germany
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction and doing ‘the biggest stretch in the history of the art world’
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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The dynamic duet of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Remembering Claes Oldenburg, who died aged 93 on 18 July 2022, we revisit our 2021 article celebrating his partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, as the duo’s final work together, Dropped Bouquet, was realised and exhibited at Pace New York’s ‘Claes & Coosje: A Duet’
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Laid bare: Elmgreen & Dragset create subversive massage parlour in Paris
In Paris, Perrotin’s Matignon gallery is transformed into an uncanny massage parlour in the hands of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset
By TF Chan Last updated
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Emma Talbot explores Greek myth and femininity at Whitechapel Gallery
In ‘The Age/L’Età’, her Max Mara Art Prize show at Whitechapel Gallery, Emma Talbot imagines a reality where violence is overturned by resolution, nurtured by an elderly female protagonist
By Martha Elliott Last updated
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At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão
we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Art Basel Hong Kong recalibrates with a digital-only edition
Following the cancellation of its Hong Kong fair, Art Basel has bounced back with Online Viewing Rooms, where Asian art takes centre stage
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Concrete poetry: the architectural sculptures of David Umemoto
Canadian artist David Umemoto's new Folded Stone series – on view at Modern Shapes Gallery, Antwerp – uses Japanese kirigami to evoke postmodernist dreams
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Sheer will: Artist Do-Ho Suh’s ghostly fabric sculptures explore the meaning of home
By Catherine Shaw Last updated
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At home with Hew Locke
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
By Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated
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Jes Fan: the artist probing the intersections of biology, identity and creativity
Multidisciplinary artist Jes Fan uses fungi, bacteria and hormones to produce thought-provoking sculptures that explore how art and biology come together to break down social constructs. This article originally appeared in the August 2022 Issue of Wallpaper*, on newsstands now and available to subscribers
By Drew Zeiba Last updated
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Last chance to see: Tim Prentice, ‘After the Mobile’ at the Aldrich
Alongside Alexander Calder and George Rickey, Tim Prentice forged a new path in kinetic art. We spoke to the American nonagenarian artist and architect ahead of his major two-part exhibition, ‘After the Mobile’, at the Aldrich, Connecticut
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Sculpture series: Liz Glynn pays tribute to Rodin at LACMA
Ungentle is a fictional journey through 20th-century Britain, exploring the relationship between espionage and male homosexuality. A collaboration between Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe, the film is on view at London’s Studio Voltaire in September
By Brook Mason Last updated
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A wave of striking outdoor sculptures dominate the Bodrum coast this summer
New works by Steve Messam, Cristián Mohaded and Sabine Marcelis arrive in Bodrum, inspired by the striking landscape of the Aegean Riviera in Turkey
By Lucy Scovell Last updated
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White Cube at Arley Hall: contemporary sculpture meets the English country house garden
White Cube’s first outdoor sculpture exhibition puts the work of 12 modern and contemporary artists, including Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Danh Vo, on view in the grounds of Cheshire’s Arley Hall
By TF Chan Last updated
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Wang Gongxin at White Cube: hidden cameras, eerie minimalism and grey matter
Wang Gongxin’s show at White Cube Mason’s Yard explores cultural polarities and in-between states through 13 captivating new multimedia works
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Alexander Calder mobiles reimagined as gravity-defying still lifes
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Take a hike: Sterling Ruby's latest solo show is inspired by mountain rambles
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Renaissance man: Jan Fabre’s sculptural dialogue with Florence
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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British blockbuster: Sotheby's Chatsworth sculpture show celebrates home talent
By Ali Morris Last updated