The Brontës Went to Woolworths – Neil Shawcross: Penguins, The Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Review by Angela Darby The affordable Penguin paperback book, now in its 76th year of production, was originally created to bring literature to the masses…

Last Chance to See: Marcel Odenbach’s Probeliegen, Freud Museum, London.

Review by Sarah Richter, a candidate for the MA in Art History at Richmond the American International University in London. The current exhibition at Freud…

The Most Beautiful World in the World: Friedrich Kunath, White Cube, London.

Review by Matt Swain White Cube Hoxton Square presents the first solo UK exhibition by Friedrich Kunath. Born in Germany and based in Los Angeles…

Two Events @ V&A – Friday Late: Yohji Yamamoto at Play and Fashion in Motion: Yohji Yamamoto

To celebrate the V&A’s current Yohji Yamamoto retrospective, the V&A will stage two events exploring the influential Japanese designer’s work and offer the chance for…

The Globe Shrinks for Those Who Own It: Barbara Kruger, Sprüth Magers, London.

Review by Laura Bushell There’s a game children play when they want to enrage their siblings; that of repeating verbatim everything the other says. Maintained…

The Future of Arts Engagement: A Sense of Perspective: Tate Liverpool

Review by Kenn Taylor A Sense of Perspective deals with the in between and the undefined, in a groundbreaking exhibition developed and curated by young…

Outpost – Critical Spaces @ Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest

Review by Adam Harangozó Stepping into the exhibition, it’s immediately evident why it is called Critical Spaces. It is in a small room, and all…

Resemblances, Sympathies, and Other Acts – Jeremy Millar @ CCA, Glasgow

Review by Alistair Quietsch Seeped in conceptual layering and research, Jeremy Millar’s current show at the CCA is at times, a seemingly disparate show of…

Cut + Paste: Romare Bearden @ Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NY

American artist, Romare Bearden’s (b.1911) practice is complex and wide reaching. This exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is the first to focus exclusively on collage…

Simon Starling, Recent History @ Tate St Ives

Review by Colin Herd To accommodate Recent History, the Tate St Ives has reversed the sequence of galleries, so the show begins in Gallery 5…

Flexible Filmmaking: Ben Rivers’ Slow Action

Review by Ruaidhri Ryan “I’m not a film purist, for me it is about my own enjoyment; I really don’t feel part of a debate…

Examining the Role of Performance: SHOW, Jerwood Visual Arts

Review by Charles Danby The Jerwood Encounters series was launched in 2008 to investigate the margins of the primary fields of the Jerwood visual arts…

Pop Up Art: Temporary Contemporary Art Space, Gateshead

A disused terraced house in Bensham, Tyneside, which is scheduled for demolition, is to briefly enjoy a radical new life – as a contemporary art…

Claude Cahun/Sue Tompkins at Inverleith House, Edinburgh

Review by Colin Herd In a tiny photograph of a domestic interior, the doors of an ornate wooden cabinet gape open. In the lower half…

SHADOWBOXING: Mariana Castillo Deball, Sean Dockray, Marysia Lewandowska and Wendelien van Oldenborgh @ RCA

Review by Emma Cummins In November 2010, the graduating students of the MA Curating Contemporary Art course at the Royal College of Art, invited the…

Pick Me Up: Contemporary Graphic Design Fair @ Somerset House

Review by Laura E. Barone, a candidate for the MA in Art History at Richmond the American International University in London The Embankment Galleries at…

Nancy Spero @ the Serpentine Gallery

Review by Paul Hardman Right from the first moment of entering this exhibition at the Serpentine, Spero’s art makes an assertive and powerful impression. Immediately…

A Partnership in Terror – Hitchcock and Herrmann Festival

The collaboration between Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most famous, tempestuous and productive creative relationships in Hollywood to date. To coincide…

The European Independent Film Festival: Bringing European Cinema to a Wider Audience

European cinema occupies a special place in the heart of the cinema-going public: a Danish film, In a Better World, picked up the Best Foreign…

Preview: Yerma at West Yorkshire Playhouse

Preview by Rym Kechacha Born just outside Granada in the heart of Andalucía, the influential Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca was highly influenced by the…