Life in Motion: Egon Schiele / Francesca Woodman review – an absurd pairing
Tate LiverpoolThe Austrian painter and US photographer are great artists who explored frank sexuality and deserve retrospectives – separate ones, that isThere are no sharks in Liverpool’s Albert Dock,...
View ArticleLife in Motion: Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman review – vulnerable beauty
Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman both died in their 20s. Here, their elegant images of the body under duress expose the difference between an artist’s real and invented dramasTwo images spark a...
View ArticleLiverpool Biennial 2018 review – the hunt for Merseyside treasures
Liverpool, various locationsSpread out across the city, Liverpool’s 10th festival of contemporary art rewards those willing to search for its many highlights“Beautiful world, where are you?” It has to...
View ArticleAre female artists worth collecting? Tate doesn’t seem to think so | Helen...
The museum preaches diversity, but its annual acquistions suggest that great art is mostly created by menThe dire situation for equality in the British visual arts has been laid bare. We’ve reversed...
View ArticleDreamers and disrupters: the best art and architecture of autumn 2018
Old and new masters reveal their radical edge, Assemble unveil their Goldsmiths galleries, Fernand Léger seeks utopia, and photography focuses on the facts More autumn picks: Film | TV | Pop |...
View ArticleA mountain for Merseyside: why have Las Vegas boulders landed in Liverpool?
These seven stacks of lurid rocks are the latest must-see attraction in Vegas, delighting 16 million visitors. Can their maker work the same magic in Liverpool? A couple of years ago, seven stacks of...
View ArticleTate Liverpool to stage major Keith Haring exhibition
US artist, who died in 1990 aged 31, is best known for his visual motifs and Aids activismTate Liverpool is to stage the first big UK show devoted to the American artist Keith Haring, who died in 1990...
View ArticleFernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures review Tate Liverpool – humanity in a...
Tate LiverpoolThe war-scarred French artist painted the texture of the 20th century in all its kaleidoscopic confusion. But amid the jumble is also a celebration of ordinary life, work and leisureThe...
View ArticleWarhol's soup cans and psychedelic dancing stars of Tate exhibition
Major six-month show at Tate Modern will present artist who ‘reimagined what art could be’Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup cans and frenetic, interpretive dancing are to feature in a major Andy Warhol...
View ArticleErections, buttocks and beheadings: it's an Aubrey Beardsley blockbuster
He created a sensational amount of art, illustrating every sexual possibility and orientation. Aubrey Beardsley is the big surprise of Tate’s newly announced plans for 2020Aubrey Beardsley is one of...
View Article‘The public has a right to art’: the radical joy of Keith Haring
Colourful and cartoonish, accessible and political, Keith Haring’s work has never gone out of fashion. But what drove him?• ‘He has changed things’: Keith Haring remembered by those who knew himThough...
View ArticleKeith Haring review – 'Like being led round hell by Mickey Mouse'
Tate LiverpoolHe was riotous, funny and furious – and his exhilarating boing-boing works took potshots at crack, God, guns, repression and Aids prejudice. This horribly prescient exhibition shows how...
View ArticleKeith Haring review – jubilance and beauty from the message man
Keith Haring’s art speaks loud and radiantly clear at Tate Liverpool in the first major UK show of his workKeith Haring, at Tate Liverpool, is a true surprise: a show of unexpected jubilance and...
View ArticleHow many likes for Da Vinci? Why it's fine to take pictures in an art gallery
Photographs used to be banned in exhibitions – now they’re encouraged. So why do some people get so snobby about them? While I was studying art history, my tutor once advised the class that when you...
View ArticleTheaster Gates review – a shocking lament for the ransacked paradise of Malaga
Tate LiverpoolThe US artist has turned his powerful gaze on Malaga, a self-determined, racially mixed island that was cleared of its inhabitants – and the bones of their ancestorsA black architectural...
View ArticleTheaster Gates: Amalgam review – memorial to America’s island of shame
Tate LiverpoolThe American artist uses music, installations and film in a moving monument to the fate of a post-slavery community in offshore MaineMalaga Island, tragic and mysterious, lies just off...
View ArticleVivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs...
She was ignored for decades, but now Suter has been rediscovered as a pioneering eco-artist. We meet her, and her 97-year-old collagist mum, in the wilds of GuatemalaA large dog romps across a blue and...
View ArticleTate galleries to make half of commercial workforce redundant
313 jobs to go in publishing and shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St IvesTate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on access to art: drifting away | Editorial
As redundancies loom and opportunities for cultural experiences narrow, the arts risk regressing into a pastime for the eliteThe grim news in the arts continues apace. Tate wrote to staff this week...
View ArticleTate to cut 120 gallery jobs in £4.8m cost-cutting drive
Arts organisation says it is aiming for voluntary redundancies as it struggles with impact of pandemicTate is cutting 120 roles among its gallery staff as part of a £4.8m cost-cutting exercise that it...
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