Art, Architecture & Design

Marthe Donas, the modernist who went missing (Apollo, 17 October 2025).
On the Belgian artist and the Enchanting Modernism exhibition at KMSKA in Antwerp.

The Turner Prize 2025 Confronts Britain’s Past and Future (Frieze, 29 September 2025).
On the exhibition at Bradford’s Cartwright Hall.

Why Contemporary Art Loves Football (Frieze, 3 September 2025).
Responding to the Manchester International Festival’s football-themed exhibition, and how the art world is currently relating to the sport.

iLiana Fokianaki Rejects Neutrality (Frieze, 7 August 2025).
Interview with the director of Kunsthalle Bern.

Museum Without Objects (Tribune, 30 April 2025).
A review of Françoise Vergès’ A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonising the Museum.

From Hockney to Dunbar: Bradford Future City (Tribune, 9 April 2025).
On Bradford’s City of Culture 2025 celebrations, including exhibitions of David Hockney and Aida Muluneh’s works.

On Jovan Josifovski (The Large Glass issue 37/38 – print-only).
Discussing a new exhibition by the North Macedonian artist.

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 (Art Monthly issue 485 – print-only).
Review of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien.

Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling (Tribune, 24 March 2025).
Review of the Linder retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London.

‘Leigh Bowery!’ Depicts a Life Lived Outrageously (Frieze, 26 February 2025).
Review of the Tate Modern retrospective.

Aslan Goisum and Peng Zuqiang Challenge Authoritarianism (Frieze, 27 January 2025).
Review of the artists’ joint exhibition at Emalin in London.

‘Subtlety is Not My Forte’: A Conversation with Judith Bernstein (Frieze, 17 January 2025).

James Lomax Turns Back Time (Frieze, 28 November 2024).
Review of the artist’s exhibition at Sid Motion Gallery in London.

Carol Rama’s Studio: A nucleus of creativity (Schirn, 21 October 2024).

Is the Turner Prize Relevant Today? (Frieze, 30 September 2024).

The Fourth Plinth is about to become a trans monument (Novara Media, 3 September 2024).
Interview with Mexican artist Teresa Margolles about her fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square.

Hidden perspectives on the city (history) of Casablanca (Schirn, 9 August 2024).
On Bik van der Pol’s ‘School of Walking’ videos, and the architectural, cultural and colonial history of Casablanca.

How Artists Tackle Labour Rights and Precarious Employment (Frieze, 2 August 2024).
A study of works by artist Doruntina Kastrati, filmmaker Radu Jude, and writer Olga Ravn.

Peter Kennard: Society of the Spectacle (ArtReview, 6 August 2024).
A review of the artist’s retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Marcin Dudek and the Art of Football Ultras (Ocula, 9 July 2024).

What Does ‘Brechtian’ Actually Mean? (ArtReview, 5 July 2024).
A review of the brecht: fragments exhibition and performances at Raven Row in London.

Art Keeps the Memory of Protest Movements Alive (Frieze, 28 June 2024).
A survey of art and writing about the British miners’ strike of 1984-85.

The Artists’ Fair 2024 (Channel, 24 June 2024).
About the affordable art fair at Somerset House.

Why Do We Obsess Over Unpopulated Architecture? (Frieze, 5 June 2024).
On Japanese artist Minoru Nomata’s paintings of abandoned modernist buildings.

Against All Odds, Brent Council is Investing in its Artists (Novara Media, 22 May 2024).
On the Metroland Cultures initiative in Brent.

‘Handling This Material is a Big Responsibility’: Karol Radziszewski on Poland’s Queer Underground (Frieze, 8 May 2024).

Letter from Sofia (Art Monthly issue 476, May 2024 – print-only).
Interview with the team behind ‘The Neighbours’ – the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Sister Corita’s Immaculate Art (Jacobin, 15 April 2024 – subscribers-only).
On the art and life of Sister Corita Kent.

‘Feminisms Here are Loud, Gender-Inclusive and Non-Compliant’ (Frieze, 10 April 2024).
Interview with Daria Khan, founder and curator at Mimosa House in London.

The Restless Innovation of Yoko Ono (Frieze, 15 February 2024).
On the retrospective at the Tate Modern.

What to See in London During Frieze Week (Frieze, 11 October 2023).
A list of London exhibitions, including Lutz Bacher, Sylvie Fleury, Anna Mendelssohn, Hiroshi Sugimoto and others.

Document of the testimony, deliberation and reflection of the Artist Citizen Jury 2022 (Art Monthly issue 470, October 2023 – print-only).

History of the Present and the Role of the Moving Image in Northern Ireland (Frieze, 18 August 2023).
Interview with Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon about their experimental opera-film History of the Present, made with the Royal Opera House.

Martin O’Brien’s Overture for the End (Frieze, 27 July 2023).
A review of Martin O’Brien’s durational performance at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Sarah Pierce – Scene of the Myth (Art Monthly issue 468, July/August 2023 – print-only).
Review of the artist’s solo exhibition at IMMA in Dublin.

A Romanian Surrealist is finally feted at home (Apollo, 3 March 2023).
On the Victor Brauner retrospective at the National Art Museum in Timisoara, Romania.

Decolonial Ecologies (Art Monthly issue 464, March 2023 – print-only).
Review of the exhibition at Riga Art Space, November 2022-January 2023.

‘People Make Television’: Enter the BBC’s Archive (Frieze, 23 February 2023).
On the exhibition of the BBC’s Open Door series (1973-83) at Raven Row in London.

Beatrice Gibson’s “Dream Gossip” (e-flux, 23 February 2023).

Anne Imhof’s Deserted Locker Rooms (Frieze, 8 November 2022).

The Horror Show of Modern Britain (ArtReview, 2 November 2022).
On the ‘Horror Show’ exhibition at Somerset House in London.

Manifesta 14 (Art Monthly issue 461, November 2022 – print-only).
Review of the ‘nomadic biennial’ in Pristina, Kosovo, August-October 2022.

Art Workers, Unite! (Tribune, 18 August 2022 – subscribers-only).
A review of Kuba Szreder’s book An ABC of the Projectariat.

Lou Lou Sainsbury Dreams of a More Liberated Future (Frieze, 15 August 2022).

‘The Baroness is Not a Futurist: She is the Future’: Celebrating Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (Frieze, 20 July 2022).

We now know where all the UK’s public sculptures are – but are they any good? (Apollo, 15 July 2022).

Haunted Realism (Burlington Contemporary, 14 July 2022).
Review of a group exhibition at the Gagosian in Mayfair, London.

Sylvie Fleury: Turn Me On at the Pinocoteca Agnelli (Art Monthly no. 458, July-August 2022 – print-only).

Tremblings at the Nouveau Musée de Monaco (ArtReview vol. 74, no. 5, summer 2022 – print-only).

Tate Modern’s Reimagining of International Surrealism (Frieze, 4 April 2022).

Studio Visit: Philipp Gufler (Delfina Foundation, 2 July 2021).

Eileen Agar Parodies the Surrealist Muse (Frieze, 14 June 2021).

What the 2021 Turner Prize Nominees tell us about the Politics of Art (Frieze, 12 May 2021).

Profile: Yishay Garbasz (Art Monthly no. 446, May 2021 – print-only).

Rishi Sunak’s Freudian Slip on the Arts (Tribune, 8 October 2020).

Two Picasso Murals and the Shifting Perception of Public Art (Frieze, 7 August 2020).

Marina Abramović: 512 (ARC, 31 July 2020).

How Architects Have Used Performance to Reclaim Private Space (Frieze, 5 June 2020).
Review of Performa’s online Bodybuilding exhibition.

The Locked Room: Saint Martin’s School of Art’s most controversial experiment (Frieze, 27 April 2020).

Fantastische Frauen: How Surrealist women (de)constructed gender (Schirn, 18 January 2020).

Is it still artwashing if a whole country’s doing it? (ArtReview, December 2019).
Review of the Screen City Biennial in Stavanger in October 2019.

The Arts for All (Tribune, 22 November 2019).
On the Labour Party’s arts policies in the 2019 manifesto.

Trying to Survive ‘On Venus’: Patrick Staff at the Serpentine (Frieze, 20 November 2019).

TV Personality: On Nam June Paik (ArtReview, October 2019).

Mapping a Gentrifying London: An interview with Laura Grace Ford (Frieze, 8 October 2019).

Turner Prize 2019 review (Frieze, 27 September 2019).

Men, Step Aside: the Women of Cobra (Frieze, 20 September 2019).

A Sense of Community: On Lisetta Carmi’s transgender portraits (Frieze Masters issue 8, 2019).

The Melancholy of a Gay Male Subculture That Has Passed (Frieze, 14 August 2019).
Review of the Queer Spaces exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Kiss My Genders review (Frieze, 14 June 2019).

Portals – Zadie Xa (Canadian Art, 10 June 2019).

Brexit: Into the Abyss (Arts of the Working Class issue 6, 2019).

Yevgeniy Fiks’ Unearthing of Historic Gay Languages (Frieze, 2 May 2019).

Armed and Dangerous: Film and fascism in Ukraine (Frieze, 21 March 2019).

When our neoliberal order explodes, who picks up the pieces? (Frieze, 20 March 2019).
Review of the Anatomy of Political Melancholy exhibition at the Athens Conservatoire.

The queer utopias of the late Belgian artist Sophie Podolski (Dazed, 14 February 2019).

On Queer in Space: Kollontai Commune Archive (Frieze issue 200, January/February 2019).

About Time: Christian Marclay’s The Clock Receives Its Tate Modern Premiere (Frieze, 11 September 2018).

Under the Paving Stones: Istanbul (ArtReview, April 2018 – print-only).
A report on the city’s recent art exhibitions.

Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers (Loose Associations, 2018 – print-only).

Dispatches: London (Frieze, 5 July 2017).
A report on the city’s cultural climate around the 2017 General Election.

The Sprawl (The Wire, issue 389, July 2016 – print-only).
Review of the film by Dutch art collective Metahaven.

How do you visualise a woman in the 21st century? (Loose Associations, 2016 – print-only).

Champagne Life (Canadian Art, 27 January 2016).
Review of the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Use BBC Four as a platform for visual artists (Open Democracy, 19 October 2015).

Translating the Self (Frieze, October 2015).
On the current wave of trans and non-binary artists.

The New Woman: Berlin’s feminist, Dadaist pioneer Hannah Höch (New Statesman, 18 January 2014).

Types of Ambiguity: On Queer Art and Culture (London Review of Books blog, 13 September 2013).

On Triangle by Sanja Iveković (New Statesman, 29 May 2013).

A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance (New Statesman, 26 November 2012).
Review of the exhibition at Tate Modern.

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (New Statesman, 17 September 2012).

The ArcelorMittal Orbit: London’s Eiffel Tower? (New Statesman, 11 July 2012).

Xxxora’s Newer Gender (Guernica, 12 June 2012).

The Great English Vortex (New Statesman, 20 June 2011).
Review of the Vorticism exhibition at Tate Britain.