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    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Ai Weiwei’s La Commedia Umana — a tribute to the ‘ultimate freedom’

      The dissident artist on his remarkable Venetian exhibition, his mortality, and the complicity of capitalism in China

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Mondrian Evolution at Fondation Beyeler — a masterly line-up from the master of lines

      The show meticulously teases out how Piet Mondrian went from austere landscapes to revolutionary abstract art

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ObituaryClaes Oldenburg
      Claes Oldenburg, Pop artist, 1929-2022

      His supersized sculptures of spoons and ice cream cones combined consumerist pleasure and intellectual irreverence

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Heroes of abstract art at the Fondation Maeght challenge tyranny and turmoil

      The works of Calder, Fontana and Dubuffet stem from postwar despair but speak to today’s existential questions

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke on recovering Ukrainian stories suppressed by Russia

      The damage inflicted on works during the Soviet era is at the heart of the Tunisian-Ukrainian’s ‘Blindstrom’ project

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Gormley, Fontana and Scarpa in Venice — review: tranquil and transcendent

      An exhibition in a former Olivetti showroom collapses the boundaries between space and time, art and architecture

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Parmigianino at the Courtauld Gallery, London — miraculous master of drawing

      The Renaissance artist made his name with pictures perfect in every fine detail

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Venetians vent their anger at Biennale land takeover

      The historic Arsenale is being divided between the festival and the navy but locals deserve better

    • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Carlo Crivelli — Renaissance master who challenged God

      Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery celebrates an artist who created his own universe by breaking pictorial and religious traditions

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      British Art Show 9 finds healing in troubled times

      The exhibition, now touring to Wolverhampton, draws on national scandals and personal struggles

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Bice Lazzari at the Estorick Collection — symphonies of the spheres

      This exhibition of the neglected abstractionist’s work reveals her minimalist rhythms and subtle grandeur

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy — a painter for our times

      The exhibition brilliantly explores the outrage, suffering and cruelty in his work, now more relevant than ever

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican — voices of persecuted poets

      The Indian artist summons haunting sounds to evoke her concern with freedom of speech

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Sutapa Biswas — a pioneering artist of exile, race and resistance

      Her show at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge draws on her family’s flight from India and the UK’s insular art world

    • Saturday, 18 December, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      The queer magic and rage of Derek Jarman

      Shows in Manchester and Southampton highlight the skill of his films and the friction of his paintings

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Illicit Northern Irish pub is toast of the Turner Prize

      Array Collective’s installation praised for creating a ‘surprising, immersive and hospitable space’

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow — a partnership in print

      The portrait of the artistic pair who powered the Grosvenor School movement is a tale of creativity, love and heartbreak

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Jenny Saville in Florence — a Renaissance reclaimed

      The British artist’s mastery of flesh and form rivals that of the Italian masters and, shown side by side, reveals new layers of meaning in both

    • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Eugenio Dittborn: I’m interested in the anti-portrait

      The Chilean artist discusses the inspiration behind his famous Airmail Paintings

    • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
      Visual Arts
      The Morozov collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton — Russia’s Silver Age shines again

      The remarkable collection of French and Russian art acquired by two wealthy brothers is on show in Paris

    • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Feminism’s question for the western canon

      Three books reconsider art history at a time when much of the misogyny that taints famous works is still ignored

    • Tuesday, 10 August, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      John Crome — a beguiling English painter ripe for rediscovery

      An exhibition in Norwich reveals that the forgotten 19th-century artist bears comparison with Constable and Turner

    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Bruce Nauman — ‘I felt it was OK to be at the edges’

      A childhood spent on the move prepared Bruce Nauman for his life as a remarkable, influential artist

    • Friday, 21 May, 2021
      Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
      Venice — a place for us?

      The city that hosts the world’s most prestigious Biennale of Architecture has a property crisis of its own

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Fruits of experience — the subtle work of Veronica Ryan

      The Caribbean-born British artist on celebrating immigrant lives through her organic and quietly radical sculpture

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