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Visual Arts

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Review
    Hard Graft at the Wellcome Collection — new exhibition puts overdue spotlight on invisible toil

    A brilliant and disturbing show exposes the dark side of physical labour, from housework to prostitution

    3 hours ago
    Painting — using acrylic paint on metal — of a woodsaw  with a yellow handle on a maroon background, with an orange and green frame. Underneath the saw are the words “Allow for short breaks . . . “
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Office life
    Art for work’s sake

    Corporate collections are investments but also a way to deepen client relationships and tempt staff to the office

    3 hours ago
    Britta Farber of Deutsche Bank, in front of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Turning the World Upside Down III’, 1996
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewCollecting
    Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer

    The winner of the Frieze Artist award 2024 has created a ‘carebot’ with emotional problems

    Man sits on a rug in an unfurnished room, with cardboard boxes and a computer screen on the floor behind him
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Collecting
    Restrictive EU law could benefit London’s Asian art scene

    Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn

    Stylised Japanese painting  of a green, grassy mountain, topped with dark blue forest, with white clouds over the top
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewCollecting
    Collector Kiran Nadar on Indian art and building museums

    Her 15,000 artworks range from the Bombay Progressives to Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor

    Smiling lady in a colourful, striped dress in front of art hanging on the wall
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewCollecting
    Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘We felt that anything we saw in art history, we could also do’

    The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station

    Two women in an art studio embrace, both seated behind a partially made wooden frame for a canvas painting
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Collecting
    Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world’

    His new section at Frieze London brings together Indigenous and diaspora artists, with a focus on clay

    A man seated, wearing tinted glasses, a black polo-neck sweater and a dark navy blue suit
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    Cathedrals of industrial power are ripe for reimagining

    The sublime ruins of our heavy manufacturing past can have a new life as monuments

    Coal powered power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar outside Nottingham
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Collecting
    Frieze Focus places emerging artists centre stage

    The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures

    Dozens of small, cartoonish, inflatable penguins are dotted around the floor of an art gallery, all facing in different directions
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The search for Japan’s ‘lost’ art

    A museum closure has shone a light on the vast collections acquired during the bubble years — and warned companies that change is coming

    A female tourist wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a backpack takes a photo on her smartphone of an abstract sculpture outside the wall of a museum
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewArts
    Es Devlin’s next act

    From her spectacular set designs to intimate portraits, the polymathic creative won’t be boxed in

    A woman in a yellow jumper, white trousers and yellow Crocs sits in a chair with her legs crossed. She holds a paintbrush in one hand. Paintings decorate the wall behind her
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Collecting
    Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market

    The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    InterviewCollecting
    Gallerist Maureen Paley: ‘I want to keep things to a more intimate scale’

    The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years

    A woman with dark hair, in sunglasses, leaning against a mantel shelf, wearing a long black frock coat, black trousers, a white top and a red scarf
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Enuma Okoro
    When one door closes . . .

    How should we approach the sometimes daunting opportunities life offers us?

    A painting of a room with a white wall and an open door  with views of the sea
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Review
    Partners in life and art for 60 years

    A show at Gainsborough’s House in Suffolk explores the work of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines

    Very colourful fantasy scene of exotic, colourful birds perched amid exotic, colourful flowers, with long grass and mountains visible in the background
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Interiors
    Objectify me: furniture, fetish and feminism

    ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ declared Nicola L. in 1969. But 55 years later, stereotypes remain and women continue to create body furniture to challenge uncomfortable truths

    An orange cabinet in the shape of a woman’s head and torso. Her eyes, mouth, breasts, stomach and vulva are the drawers.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The best books of the week
    How Painting Happens — Martin Gayford’s guide to the artist’s mind

    Technique or temperament? The alchemy of great art is elusive — but this peek inside painters’ studios offers tantalising insights

    A close-up of an oil painting focuses on the eyes of an ageing man
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Gardens
    Monsteras, Inc: artist Jonas Wood’s pot plant obsession

    The artist has done his bit to advance the cultural kudos of the houseplant — and vice versa

    A man sits on a leather sofa, wearing trousers in leaf-pattern print. Beside him is a huge potted plant in a large decorative pot
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Luxury brands’ cultural ties strike a chord with Chinese buyers

    Exhibitions, commissioning local artists and educational ventures are gaining currency with consumers

    Chinese artist, Zhou Li stands with cropped black hair, holding outstretched her metallic sclupture against a green backdrop of trees.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Review
    Mike Kelley at Tate Modern — a dark answer to Pop Art

    A spirit of Nineties nihilism pervades this exhaustive retrospective

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    The Art Market
    Artists pitch in to raise $1mn for Kamala Harris

    Sotheby’s debt in the limelight; Christie’s dresses up for Hong Kong; advisory firm opens in Paris; Guyana artist gets his due at Frieze Masters

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Seven ways to give this autumn

    Tiny sculptures, envelope-sized artworks and a six-course lunch club

    An envelope artwork for the National Brain Appeal’s A Letter In Mind exhibition and sale
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI special: the art of intimacy

    Our autumn arts special features Rebecca Hall, Andrew O’Hagan, the Rohrwacher sisters and many more

    Midnight swim (all the blue in the world), 2023, by Christopher Hartmann
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Artisans
    Felicity Aylieff’s big pot energy

    The ceramicist has combined China’s ‘white gold’ clay with artistic inspiration from Kew Gardens to create monumental floral pots for a new exhibition

    A woman stands between two giant colourful ceramic vases pots that are taller than her
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI special: the art of intimacy
    HTSI editor’s letter: the art of intimacy

    Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special

    Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Hotel Locarno, Rome
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