art history Archives

Sverre Malling, Salon Désiré (detail), 2025

Sverre Malling Champions the Glowing Outsiders of History (Part Two)

12/01/2026

The Norwegian artist rediscovers marginalised figures and anachronistic traditions...

Sverre Malling, Hirams Death (detail), 2024

Sverre Malling Champions the Glowing Outsiders of History (Part One)

05/01/2026

The Norwegian artist rediscovers marginalised figures and anachronistic traditions...

Installations as Theatre

03/04/2024

Are all situations theatrical?...

Paul Sietsema, Carriage Painting (Green Square), 2022

Conceptual Art and the Danceful Process of Dialogue: Paul Sietsema Pt 2

09/05/2022

Labours of meaning, stances of distances - an interview with Paul Sietsema. Part two....

Paul Sietsema, Black Phone Painting, 2022

Conceptual Art and the Danceful Process of Dialogue: Paul Sietsema Pt 1

03/05/2022

Labours of meaning, stances of distances - an interview with Paul Sietsema. Part One....

The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander

25/01/2022

"Art history is deeply Eurocentric and tends to place art that doesn’t sit comfortably within its canon as the ‘other’ and never as ‘avant-garde’."...

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Kings Never Die: Christian Boltanski’s Esprit

11/01/2022

The Manege's Central Exhibition Hall holds Esprits, Christian Boltanski’s first-ever solo exhibition at St Petersburg....

Jordan Ann Craig, Always Playing Games, 2021

Poetry in the Precision: Jordan Ann Craig

21/12/2021

An interview with Jordan Ann Craig about the thunderstorms that caused her to dream. ...

Hauser & Wirth Menorca to Open with Exhibition by Mark Bradford

20/06/2021

American artist Mark Bradford’s forthcoming exhibition will inaugurate the gallery’s newest location on Isla del Rey in Menorca with a collection of new works exploring marginalised narratives...

A Story of Motherhood in Western Art & Culture

25/02/2021

A large-scale exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark explores maternal roles and relationships as portrayed in Western art, literature, music, religion and historic narratives...