Art so driven by political imperatives as this selection of recent work by six Cuban artists is a tricky proposition for the outsider familiar only with the country’s now ex-figurehead Fidel...
Had you been at the opening of Bedwyr Williams’ show you might have giggled to see the artist lying on a camp bed beneath a mosquito net, playing Welsh orchestral music into a mic from his...
A parade of potted plants leads you into the gallery, as it might to a doctor’s waiting room. The idea that waxy indoor palms should instead conjure up exotic images of jungles or sultry...
American painter Wayne Gonzales is known for his pixelated, low-resolution appropriations of anonymous, internet-sourced imagery, usually containing overtly political or historical subject matter....
Imagine Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s zanier DIY makeover moments captured in Matisse-style colours and executed in materials found in a child’s pencil case, and one gets a pretty good idea...
This boringly wholesome, endearingly intimate photographic record of four years of a Hispanic working-class kid’s adolescent progress in Los Angeles, 2003-2006 is not what we’ve come to...
This photo award has always been a just cause for reflecting on to see who’s done what and how well, but this twelfth edition is full of reminiscence. Arguably, photography is itself a...
Under the right unusual circumstances, the very new and the very old can appear strangely similar, as though an essential quality, obscured by the intervening years, is illuminated within them....
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