Art
A Beguiling Look at the Biases of AI
With Bloom, Trevor Paglen collapses distinctions between the real and virtual, laying bare the prejudices embedded in supposedly objective artificial intelligence systems.
London
Art
An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
News
Hundreds of Artists Support Striking Tate Workers
Hito Steyerl, Michael Rakowitz, and Forensic Architecture are among 300 signatories asking Tate to reconsider cutting 313 jobs in its shops, cafes, and restaurants.
Art
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History
In A Countervailing Theory, her current exhibition at the Barbican Centre, Ojih Odutola’s alternative histories take on a more epic, mythic scale.
Books
Step Into the Colony Room, the Raucous Haunt of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the YBAs
Tales from the Colony Room, an oral history of London’s most infamous bar, delves into the artistic collaborations, affections, cruelties, and regrets of the club’s patrons.
News
Ava DuVernay Partners With Gallery for Exhibition Benefitting Law Enforcement Accountability Organization
The partnership with Signature African Art will present a two-part exhibition of work by artists reflecting on the African diaspora.
Art
Cao Fei’s Science Fiction Fever Dreams
In Blueprints, Cao works primarily as an anthropologist of sorts, creating a space where the past and the future are not so easily demarcated.
Art
Léon Spilliaert's Nocturnal Visions
Spilliaert saw his hometown of Ostend, Belgium, as a kind of liminal space between the outside and his interior world.
News
A Very Duchampian Protest Action at Tate Modern
A curious sign in a bathroom at Tate Modern was created to protest lay offs at one of the UK's biggest museums.
Art
Basking in Derek Jarman’s Private Utopia
A recreation of the cottage where Jarman spent his final days, an exhibition at the Garden Museum creates a response to HIV that is at once personal and political, shining a light on wider issues of institutional homophobia.
Art
Slavery and the Dehumanization of Modern Life
Through texts and objects, Cameron Rowland illuminates the connection between slavery and the commercial structures that define the global economy today.
Art
In London, a Khadija Saye Installation Encourages Black Women to Take Up Space
Part of a larger public art project, the late artist’s installation encourages Black women to be seen, heard, and to live, especially in the face of despair.