Roots, seeds and slow activism at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
Aug 12, 2025by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
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by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
by Zohra Khan Jun 13, 2025
A travelling retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist’s work comes to London, spanning four decades of practice.
by Ranjana Dave Nov 29, 2024
MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today surveys over eight decades of creative practice in an exhibition at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
by Hannah McGivern Nov 12, 2024
This group exhibition at Warwick Arts Centre explores how contemporary artists engage with textiles as a medium and a concept to convey ideas of culture, identity and history.
by Louis Ho Oct 29, 2024
Large-scale surveys of Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng at the National Gallery Singapore highlight divergent sensibilities, exhibition aesthetics and cultural politics.
by Deeksha Nath Jul 17, 2024
The focal point of the conceptual artist’s ambitious solo exhibition at the Southbank Centre is the overlooked scientific, political and cultural contributions of Black people.
by Anushka Sharma Mar 02, 2024
The London-based gallery brings together ‘Sixty years of restless sculpture’ in a show encompassing work by 21 international artists, exploring movement, dynamism and fluidity.
by Daria Kravchuk Jan 23, 2024
Japanese ceramicist Takuro Kuwata reinterprets traditional pottery through new processes and pays homage to Gifu prefecture's ceramic heritage.
by Zahra Khan Aug 23, 2023
Curated by Rachel Thomas, Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis is an immersive and sensorial art exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, responding to the climate crisis.
by Shraddha Nair Apr 01, 2023
Hayward Gallery presents a survey of British artist Mike Nelson’s sculptural and installation works, reimagined and reworked for the London gallery.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 26, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR looks at art galleries, art collectives, and movements that supported LGBTQ artists, people of colour, and diverse life forms.
by Urvi Kothari Oct 05, 2022
A leading South Asian diasporic artist, Lubna Chowdhary defies categorisation as she defines common notions of identity and belonging within the floors of MIMA.
by Rahul Kumar, Samta Nadeem Sep 13, 2022
Curator Ekow Eshun brought together 11 artists who inventively recycle and reconfigure elements of folklore, myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions, and legacies of Afrofuturism.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 05, 2022
The site-specific installation The Hop, a new commission by Jyll Bradley at the Hayward Gallery, reimagines the cultural history of the 20th century London.
by Shraddha Nair May 13, 2020
Ralph Rugoff, Director at Hayward Gallery, curates a selection of artworks that re-examine our relationship with trees, transcending cultural and geographical limitations.
by Sukanya Garg Aug 28, 2019
Kiss My Genders, a group exhibition exploring gender identity, is on display at the Hayward Gallery, London, till September 8, 2019.
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