Art

Danish Pop, which isn’t to be confused with the influenzally catchy chart fodder for which Scandinavia is famed, is, in the hands of Per Kirkeby, an erratic affair. ‘Car Pictures’...

‘Boule to Braid’ sounds rather like an all-over waxing process favoured by buff, flaxen-haired Vikings; and indeed it does describe a process of collation that is almost as personal....

Hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, and boasting a changeable membership, artists’ collective Team Lump here takes aim at styles of American cultism. The trappings of these tend to get...

It took Charles Darwin 30 years to write ‘The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals’ and it seems to have taken the Natural History Museum an age to open this show of...

A title like ‘Recent Acquisitions’ might have sounded dull and functional; a more straightforward title would have been ‘Some British art we’ve bought because we think...

The twentieth century was a hell of a time to be an Anglo-German, but Bill Brandt’s pain was our gain. Born and raised in Germany, with four German grandparents but an English father, Brandt...

You’re at the opening of an exhibition and someone has secretly locked the door, pocketed the key and disappeared. Do you passively wait like a good gallery-goer, or smash the glass front of...

A few years ago the British Museum staged a small but exhilarating display of badges, many of which were emblazoned with the very sorts of pro-CND or anti-Thatcher slogans that I would wear as a...