Art

Martin Creed: Still an angry artist

The Turner Prize winner's new exhibition, which reflects his often angry reaction to politics, is set in the carefully manicured gallery Hauser and Wirth, in Somerset

The Imperial War Museum

Britian's national museum on war was founded to do a very different task to what it's known for today

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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun review: Gender surrealism

This exhibition brings together the work of the former Turner Prize winner and the late French surrealist writer and photographer, both who shared an interest in the self-portrait through photography and explored the themes of gender and identity 

At 87, artist and global phenomenon Kusama shows no sign of retiring

She once lived on fish heads scavenged from bins. She was happy to play the Kimono-clad Asian when hanging out with Rothko and Warhol, She even wrote to Nixon to ask him to stop the war in Vietnam. Now artist and global phenomenon Yayoi Kusama is 87 and shows no sign retiring

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America after the Fall review: A show of highly significant paintings

The upstairs rooms at the Royal Academy are crisp and boxy – like a tidy argument. The curators of this show try to do something similarly neat and compacted with painting in America during the 1930s, tidying it away into themes and moments. It doesn’t work. Does that matter, though? No.

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Photographs by Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith, review

To coincide with the major Vanessa Bell solo show at Dulwich Picture Gallery, photographs by the Bloomsbury artist along with Patti Smith's black and white Polaroid photographs of Bell's Charleston farmhouse in Sussex, make for an interesting pairing