ARTISTS
2025
It has become a bit of a 鈥榯hing鈥� to take a significant 20th-century artist and juxtapose their work with that of a contemporary one.
The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.
This extraordinary show is a conversation, across the decades, between two kindred artists who refuse to shy away from the world鈥檚 horror and pain.
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) has long been recognised as one of the most vital figures in contemporary art, with a voice shaped by displacement and exile, and a practice rooted in the fragility of everyday structures.
From October 2025, Lucy Raven will transform The Curve with a major new exhibition titled Rounds.
From October 2025, Lucy Raven to transform The Curve with a major new exhibition titled Rounds.
Our editors on the exhibitions they鈥檙e looking forward to this month, from Rencontres d鈥橝rles to a Michael Haneke retrospective.
The first of three exhibitions to position historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti with new works by contemporary artists, this one shows his work in dialogue with that of the Pakistani American sculptor Huma Bhabha.
From cutting-edge contemporary art to classic masterpieces, these are the best galleries to visit this year.
There is widespread frustration with what contemporary art has become, says the British critic Dean Kissick. Now his much debated 2024 essay is being published in an extended Danish version.
In the early morning of June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Lower Manhattan.
Four of Huma Bhabha鈥檚 towering apocalyptic figures (2024) set the scene for 鈥淓ncounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha鈥� (on view through August 10, 2025), the first in a series of exhibitions organized in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti.
At the Barbican Art Gallery, London, a dual presentation shows two artists confronting the traumas of their times.
The Barbican's new series, Encounters, sees Alberto Giacometti's work paired with a series of artists.
The Barbican presents a major new exhibition by artist Huma Bhabha, the first in a series of three groundbreaking exhibitions in partnership with Fondation Giacometti.