Rambert defies gravity in an unforgettable evening at Tate Modern
“Is that it?” So I was asked by one of two impossibly chic French women seated to my right on Saturday, at the abrupt end of Set…
An A to Z of Surrealism: not a style, but a state of mind
C is for Cairo In the mid-1930s, the Egyptian surrealist Georges Henein began using the pages of the journal he edited, Un effort, to reflect the ideas…
Tate Modern in trans rights row as women protest against ‘one-sided’ film
The Tate rejected the activists’ criticisms, telling The Telegraph: “We have chosen to screen a work that does not propose one perspective on the question of womanhood,…
Surrealism Beyond Borders, Tate Modern, review: a visionary celebration of Surrealism’s overlooked artists
Forget about Paris: according to Tate Modern’s visionary and surprising new exhibition, there was no single centre of Surrealism, which, it suggests, was a “transnational” phenomenon, but…
Robot artists, group-think and a £52m JPEG: the year the art world went mad
Of course, the art world’s decadence has long amused outsiders, and, despite the generally sombre mood generated by the pandemic, 2021, in this respect, didn’t disappoint. A…
Lubaina Himid, review: long-hidden stories brought stirringly into the light
Over the past five years, Lubaina Himid, who was born in Zanzibar in 1954 and won the Turner Prize in 2017, has enjoyed a great deal of…