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Jonathan Baldock’s playful works bring joy to Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Jonathan Baldock mischievously considers history and myths in ‘Touch Wood’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
By Anne Soward Published
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The Clerk’s House is a new Shoreditch gallery space with a spooky past
The Clerk’s House in Shoreditch, London, becomes Emalin gallery’s ‘118½’ exhibition space, showcasing contemporary independent works in a historic setting
By Tianna Williams Published
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In memoriam: photographer Brian Griffin (1948 – 2024)
Remembering British photographer Brian Griffin, we look back on his playful shoot for Wallpaper* May 2018
By Hannah Silver Published
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Inside Nollywood: tracing Nigeria’s film history
With plans afoot for a new Lagos museum to preserve Nigeria’s film history, we hear from the collection’s curator
By Chisom Peter Job Published
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The Whitney plots Harold Cohen’s artistic AI adventures
‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, at the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrates the artist’s software – the earliest AI program for artmaking – as an artwork in its own right
By Hannah Silver Published
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya dissects race and sexuality in intimate photography
A survey of Paul Mpagi Sepuya's recent work, ‘Exposures’, goes on view at Nottingham Contemporary, UK
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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‘Rapper’s Deluxe’: 50 years of hip-hop history in one Phaidon book
‘Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World’ by Dr Todd Boyd explores the genre’s impact on contemporary culture
By Tianna Williams Published
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Cindy Sherman’s unsettling, fragmented portraits go on show in New York
Cindy Sherman unveils 30 new works at Hauser & Wirth, New York
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘Heaven ’N’ Earth’: Sayre Gomez blurs the reality and illusion of Los Angeles
Sayre Gomez’s ‘Heaven ‘N‘ Earth’ at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels explores the contrasts between wealth and poverty, reality and illusion in Los Angeles
By Finn Blythe Published
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The Ukrainian children documenting their daily lives with disposable cameras
Ukrainian children are using creativity to overcome trauma, encouraged by non-profit Behind Blue Eyes
By Hannah Silver Published
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Ludovic Nkoth’s vibrant paintings reflect on migration
Cameroon-born, New York-based Ludovic Nkoth uses acrylic paint to strike a balance between abstraction and figuration
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published
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Ai vs AI: Ai Weiwei asks the big questions nightly in central London
Ai Weiwei and Circa consider the role of the question in Piccadilly Circus, London
By Hannah Silver Published
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Unseen images by JK Bruce-Vanderpuije are a glimpse of life in 20th-century Ghana
Late Ghanaian photographer JK Bruce-Vanderpuije’s works are on show at Efie Gallery in Dubai, offering a vision of a nation across the decades
By Tianna Williams Published
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‘Art Exposed’: Julian Spalding on everything that’s wrong with the art world
In ‘Art Exposed’, Julian Spalding draws on his 40 years in the art world – as a museum director, curator, and critic – for his series of essays
By Alfred Tong Published
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Art SG 2024: what to see at Southeast Asia’s biggest art fair
Art SG returns for its second year with a rich international roster of artists and galleries
By Daven Wu Published
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Sneak peek: inside Jack Shainman’s vast New York gallery
Jack Shainman’s new gallery space opens with ‘Broken Spectre’, a new film by Irish artist Richard Mosse
By Mary Cleary Published
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Kvadrat Acoustics unites technical design with art in a new installation at Buffalo AKG Museum
Kvadrat Acoustics’ technical skill has helped stage a woven tapestry installation, ‘Others Will Know’, by Miriam Bäckström at Buffalo AKG Museum
By Tianna Williams Published
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Marisol Mendez's ‘Madre’ unpicks the woven threads of Bolivian womanhood
From ancestry to protest, how Marisol Mendez’s 'Madre' is rewriting the narrative of Bolivian womanhood
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Space for My Body: Anu Põder’s retrospective opens in Switzerland
Estonian artist Anu Põder is celebrated by Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch in an exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani
By Hannah Silver Published
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Barbara Kruger wins Best Thought-Provoker in Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You’ by Barbara Kruger at Serpentine Gallery, opening 1 February 2024, is a Wallpaper* winner
By Hannah Silver Published
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Don't miss Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain: humour, desire, domesticity
‘Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas’ at Tate Britain spans the four decades the artist’s career
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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First look at Neil Gaiman’s magical design for The Art of Elysium’s Heaven 2024 gala
Neil Gaiman is behind this year’s one-night-only art installation for Heaven 2024, The Art of Elysium’s gala
By Hannah Silver Published
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Glitch: artists explore the potential in imperfection in Munich
Glitch: The Art of Interference, a new group exhibition at Germany’s Pinakothek der Moderne, unites a host of cross generational artists
By Emily Steer Published
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From David Hockney to modern horror: the enduring symbolism of the swimming pool
On the sixtieth anniversary of David Hockney introducing the swimming pool into his painting California Art Collector (1964), we look at the enduring role of the swimming pool in art and culture
By Kyle MacNeill Published
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Artists consider social realities for the Artes Mundi prize in Wales
The Artes Mundi, in its tenth edition, is based and exhibited around Wales and is headed up by Nigel Prince
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Discover Liorah Tchiprout’s richly drawn depictions of an inner life
Liorah Tchiprout’s debut solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery, 'Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn', considers women’s interior lives
By Hannah Silver Published
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Heads up: art exhibitions to see in January 2024
Start the year right with the Wallpaper* pick of art exhibitions to see in January 2024
By Hannah Silver Published