The Deconstruction of Frida Kahlo
The Tate Modern's 'Frida: The making of an icon' is more about the mania than the artist
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David Hockney's Final Show Is a Slow, Sad Walk Through Time
"A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting" gives us everything that was important to the artist in one quiet meditation.
Tracey Emin's 'Second Life' Returns to First Principles
The Tate Modern's retrospective shows us the Emin we were always meant to see
The Peaks and Troughs of “Genuine Fake Premium Economy”
The Institute of Contemporary Arts brings us three artists exploring a clever but dated financial theme
Aurorae Offers Flashes of Brilliance in New Media Art
This group show by CaptiArtX at the new art’otel Hoxton is flawed but still fascinating
Edvard Munch and the Portraits that Watched Over Him
The National Portrait Gallery shows us a more sociable Symbolist
JMW Turner and John Constable — The Painters whose Rivalry Changed Art
The Tate Britain's exhibition reveals two very different landscape artists who spurred one another toward greatness, with just a little drama along the way
Should London's West End Make Money, or Make Room?
Long-running shows are taking up space but maybe that’s not such a bad thing
Art+ Is Alive and Well and Starting Up in London
The arts review blog you never knew, reborn on the Thames
‘Megalopolis’ Collapses Under Its Own Weight
With its tired tropes and empty characters, Coppola’s big ideas get buried beneath the rubble
‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ Makes a Satire of Itself at the Adelphi Theatre
And I wish I could go back in time to before I bought the tickets
‘Viola’s Room’: Punchdrunk Theatre Draws Us into Daisy Johnson’s Dark Fairytale
A work of immersive theatre that takes you into the maze behind its protagonist’s walls
‘Waiting for Godot’: Beckett’s Blank Canvas at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Director James Macdonald strips away the details, letting the characters speak for themselves
Review: Slave Play Holds a Mirror to Its Audiences
Jeremy O. Harris’s challenging show arrives in London’s West End
Spirited Away: Hayao Miyazaki’s Supernatural Tale Arrives on the London Coliseum Stage
A sumptuous and faithful adaptation of the Oscar-winning animation — but just who is this play for?