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Serpentine Gallery

June 2024

  • A pavilion of black wood and orange netting

    Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful

    The South Korean architect has incorporated a climbing structure, a cafe and a library into an unpredictable space meant for coming together

May 2024

  • The artist makes some finishing touches to his work. 'Jean Cocteau ., 2003-2012' by Marc Camille Chaimowicz A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance Tate Modern 14/11/12 - 1/4/13 London David Levene By David Levene 12/11/12

    Marc Camille Chaimowicz obituary

  • Judy Chicago, detail from In the Beginning, from Birth Project, 1982.

    Judy Chicago: Revelations review – six decades of table-turning body politics

  • A detail from Peeling Back, 1974, from Female Rejection Drawing by Judy Chicago.

    Judy Chicago: Revelations review – cosmic cobblers from a dinner party goddess

  • Judy Chicago photographed in her New Mexico studio by her husband, the photographer Donald Woodman.

    ‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84

April 2024

  • Decolonised Structures, 2022-23 by Yinka Shonibare winston churchill detail

    Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States review – gorgeously recognisable, but is that enough?

  • Resurrected to ponder and crtitique … Yinka Shonibare CBE, Decolonised Structures.

    Yinka Shonibare CBE review – where Churchill finds his inner psychedelic dandy

January 2024

  • Prepare to meet thy doomscroll … Kruger’s new show.

    ‘As subtle as a brick in the face’: Barbara Kruger’s cacophonous Trumpspeak premonitions

    The US artist’s work is a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump – and a grinding, alarming soundtrack has been added for this astonishing, rattling exhibition

June 2023

  • À table by Lina Ghotmeh, the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion

    Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – Lina Ghotmeh’s convivial canopy

  • Feast for the eyes … À Table, named after the French call to sit down together to eat.

    Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – giant cocktail umbrella gives the park a party vibe

March 2023

  • Steve McQueen.

    ‘People will be disturbed’: Steve McQueen on airing his Grenfell film

    Exclusive: Director says it is finally time to screen haunting footage as community awaits inquiry findings

October 2022

  • Tora Hallström as Hilma af Klint in a new film about the Swedish artist.

    Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art

    Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

September 2022

  • ‘He loved paint and so he loved Mondrian’ … Dzidzɔ kple amenuveve (Joy and Grace), by Atta Kwami.

    ‘Terribly courageous’ – Atta Kwami’s glorious posthumous mural unveiled at the Serpentine

    The Ghanaian artist was just starting to receive the acclaim he deserved, winning last year’s Maria Lassnig prize. His widow talks about the daunting task of completing his joyous final work

June 2022

  • Black Chapel by Theaster Gates, the 2022 Serpentine pavilion.

    Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel Serpentine pavilion review – a welcoming labour of love

    Gates uses an artist’s touch to create a dignified, Staffordshire kiln-inspired structure that celebrates community and work – and honours his late father

April 2022

  • Starstruck … Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience in London.

    Immersive exhibitions: the future of art or overpriced theme parks?

    You can see Van Gogh’s brush strokes being applied or watch aliens dancing. But true immersion should mean more than just access to the latest tech
  • Metapanorama, 2022.

    Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – an all-together-now of beautiful minds

    Fellow aliens Alan Turing, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Bowie et al convene in outer space in the French artist’s beguiling tribute to earthly genius
  • Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's Alienarium 5 at Serpentine South Gallery., Serpentine Gallery, London, UK - 12 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (12891611x) Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's (pictured) Alienarium 5 at Serpentine South. It transforms the gallery into an immersive, sensory environment, incorporating visual, sonic, olfactory, tactile and live engagements that help the audience to imagine alternative forms of life and alien encounters. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's Alienarium 5 at Serpentine South Gallery., Serpentine Gallery, London, UK - 12 Apr 2022

    Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – close encounters of the slightly hokey kind

    This sprawling galactic installation is a mash-up of political, literary and pop culture sci-fi references with a diorama including everyone from Yayoi Kusama to Diana, Princess of Wales

February 2022

  • A visitor to the Serpentine North Gallery uses the Acute Art app to display augmented reality art by Kaws.

    Kaws: New Fiction review – an art show where you brush shoulders with virtual visitors

  • ‘I love the idea that nature will come in’ … Theaster Gates on his proposed Serpentine Pavilion 2022, Black Chapel.

    ‘It’s got great drainage!’ – Theaster Gates on his open-to-the-elements Serpentine pavilion

January 2022

  • Go figure … an augmented reality sculpture by Kaws seen on the Acute Art app.

    ‘Who’s to say it’s not real?’ Street artist Kaws on creating Fortnite’s first exhibition

    The New Yorker has made a virtual art show to take place within the smash-hit game – and a real-life one at London’s Serpentine with a touch of augmented reality. Can it get young gamers into galleries?
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