Kembra Pfahler, Capital Improvements, review: ‘schlocky warnings and stark illustrations of current moment’
Political art by US firebrand challenges the orthodoxy of ‘coolness’ with raucous energy and sly humour
Lewis Church
Guerrilla Girl power! Feminist ‘masked avengers’ come to East London to take on art world
The political art collective has been fighting prejudice in the art world for 30 years, with a major new exhibition of their work now open at the Whitechapel Gallery
Guerrilla Girl power! Feminist 'masked avengers' come to East London to take on art world
The political art collective has been fighting prejudice in the art world for 30 years, with a major new exhibition of their work now open at the Whitechapel Gallery
Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican, review: ‘ethereal and endearingly dorky’
The work of Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson is hypnotic and strange but enormously engaging
Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican, review: 'ethereal and endearingly dorky'
The work of Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson is hypnotic and strange but enormously engaging
Strange and Familiar exposes Britain through outsiders' lenses
A fascinating exhibition at the Barbican captures a changing nation as well as charting the evolution of photography
Strange and Familiar exposes Britain through outsiders’ lenses
A fascinating exhibition at the Barbican captures a changing nation as well as charting the evolution of photography
Mario Cravo Neto: A Serene Expectation of Light – review
Striking portraits and shots of urban life by photographer Mario Cravo Neto on display at Rivington Place give insight into Brazil’s cultural make-up
A celebration of the body: the work of performance artist Poppy Jackson
Poppy Jackson, who caused a stir last November with a performance that saw her sit naked on the roof of Toynbee Hall, talks about the wider significance of artwork and the female body in public spaces
To treat naked artist Poppy Jackson as a joke is to dismiss something powerful
Straddling the roof of Toynbee Hall, Jackson’s performance at Spill festival was a daring piece of experimental art. So why did most media reports reduce it to the lowest common denominator?
The Fantasy of Representation at Beers Contemporary – art review
Some clichéd content is the Achilles heel of an otherwise striking exhibition at Beers Contemporary on representational art
Art review – Jazz by Thierry Noir: instrumental street artist comes to East London
Graffiti artist famed for painting the Berlin Wall is back in East London with a new exhibition about another rebellious art form: jazz
AA Bronson: Hexenmeister – radical artist's first London exhibition
Veteran Canadian artist who continues to challenge notions of artistic orthodoxy is showing work at Maureen Paley
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at the Barbican – review
This collection of artists’ collections including those of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, is fascinating though by its very definition a mixed bag
Darren Coffield: Psycho – review
Darren Coffield’s Warhol-inspired works often fail to live up to their own high aspirations
Black Chronicles II exhibition review: Excavating black history
Portraits of the first black people to be photographed in Britain, unseen for 120 years, feature in a new exhibition