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    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Masterpiece London 2022
      Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

      Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Jo Ellison
      What do we want from a work of art?

      Art is the opportunity to have your optics ambushed; it should open doors to different worlds

    • Friday, 25 February, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Jenny Holzer on Louise Bourgeois — ‘She. Is. Bodacious’

      Holzer has curated a show of Bourgeois’ works in Basel, exploring trauma, anger and sex

    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Louise Bourgeois — an artist trapped in her own skin

      The roiling depths of the sculptor’s psyche are explored alongside powerful works in a show at New York’s Jewish Museum

    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      How women artists reclaimed the female body

      From the staunchly realist to the abstract and surreal, two London exhibitions this summer go far beyond just nudes

    • Thursday, 5 July, 2018
      InterviewLife & Arts
      Sophie Calle: secrets hidden in plain sight

      The artist’s new works, installed at a Provence château, continue her fascination with confessions

    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Louise Bourgeois at MoMA — a stunning web of thematic threads

      New York exhibition reveals unsuspected layers beyond the famous spider sculptures

    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Mass MoCA — a revelation round every corner

      The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has grown to become a contemporary art juggernaut

    • Friday, 2 December, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The Art Market: Miami sales and a ‘shopping channel’ for art

      Dealers arrived in Miami with low expectations, but many were pleased by early business

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Frieze Art Fair, London — review

      The irresistible “Nineties” section cleverly sets the context for many of this year’s offerings

    • Sunday, 21 August, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      I Still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh — ‘Improbable loveliness’

      An exhibition that pursues a dreamlike course through its galleries

    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The market for monumental art: who’s buying?

      Art Basel’s Unlimited sector displays work too large for most fairs. But who collects it?

    • Friday, 20 May, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Interview: Frances Morris, Tate Modern’s first female director

      A Tate curator since 1988, she talks about the gallery’s giant new extension and her vision for the institution’s future

    • Monday, 9 May, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Mona Hatoum, Tate Modern, London, review — ‘Triumphant’

      The artist’s London show expresses the terrible beauty of unbelonging

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Tate Modern unveils launch plans for £260m extension

      June opening of Switch House will boost gallery space by 60% and visitor figures by 1m a year

    • Friday, 25 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      African-American artists paint it black in Hong Kong

      The work of two artists investigates the concept of blackness and their own lived ethnic experience

    • Friday, 18 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Met Breuer’s inaugural shows: the incomplete works

      The Metropolitan Museum’s new outpost opens to the public with a pair of contrasting exhibitions, both full of surprises

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      Georgina Adam
      Big-money trophies obscure a mixed picture in the art market

      It seems the outside world is finally affecting the market, writes Georgina Adam

    • Friday, 26 June, 2015
      Charlie Porter
      Flower to the people

      In Milan, fashion is all about the conversation piece

    • Friday, 22 May, 2015
      Charlie Porter
      Pretty as a picture

      Designers often cite art as inspiration for their collections. But at what point does homage become rip-off?

    • Sunday, 22 February, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Simone Rocha — London Fashion Week AW15 show report

      The sculptor Louise Bourgeois inspires soft subversion at Simone Rocha

    • Friday, 5 September, 2014
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions including Anthony Caro and Xu Bing
    • Wednesday, 17 July, 2013
      FT Photo DiaryWorld
      In the shadow of the ‘Spider Maman’ in Bilbao
    • Friday, 28 June, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Fibre optics

      Tapestry, cloth, wool: it’s everywhere. Fabric-based art is not just a female medium

    • Monday, 26 November, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972, Museum of Modern Art, New York

      This is a rare retrospective of the work of an artist who insisted on erasing the boundaries between where she ended and her creations began

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