From live music to glass sculpture, game-changing performances to fitness podcasts… our writers on cultural treats to light up the months aheadKathryn Hunter appears in The Chairs, Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist apocalypse drama, translated, adapted and di…
Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where…
Statue of pioneering MP Barbara Castle joins recent memorials to prominent British women
Depiction of veteran Labour MP latest in series of sculptures of significant women, including Diana Princess of WalesBarbara Castle, the pioneering British female politician and prominent national figure from the 1950s to the 70s, has been commemorated…
Little pieces of energy, magnified
From her Nairobi studio, artist Wangechi Mutu considers her relationship with the natural world and the ways in which it has influenced her variegated artistic practice. A self-described “city girl with a nature brain,” Mutu recounts her upbringing in …
‘I sculpt the air’ – does scent artist Anicka Yi plan to make Tate’s Turbine Hall smell like vaginas?
She has made art out of smells, ants, bacteria, spit and vaginal swabs. So what is the US artist about to unveil for her Turbine Hall commission? Yi, who was once a vagabond in London, takes us on an olfactory odysseyAnicka Yi offers me some beetroot c…
Art of neon: light flickers on old British craft, but new show aims to keep it alive
Major exhibition will reveal how neon went from the staple of brash advertising to an art formAcross two galleries in Wakefield sit more than half a dozen tubes of light at least two metres tall, revolving on the spot and creating ethereal shapes in th…
“I create mostly by weaving materials found in nature.”
Charlie Baker is an artist and builder that makes many kinds of structures and art pieces out of woven branches. He was recently interviewed by Wired [YT] as part of their Obsessed video series.
Mechanisms at Play: The Audio-Kinetic Sculptures of George Rhoads
May I interest you in a moment of mechanical joy? George Rhoads, the man who designed delightful kinetic sculptures made of twists and turns and gears and track, died on July 9, 2021. His audio-kinetic ball machines can be found across the United State…
Emeka Ogboh’s Brexit lament, the brilliant Joan Eardley and a Viking hoard – the week in art
Ogboh fills Edinburgh’s Burns Monument with sound, Eardley’s seascapes get a welcome outing and a detectorist’s extraordinary find – all in your weekly dispatchEmeka Ogboh: Song of the UnionA sound installation of Robert Burns’s Auld Lang Syne, sung in…