FEATURES & INTERVIEWS EXHIBITION REVIEWS OPINION WATCH & LISTEN FAIRS & EVENTS SHOP SIGN IN JOIN FRIEZE UK Reviews From x To x Showing results 1-20 of 95 EU REVIEWS , EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS The Top 7 Shows to See in the UK and Ireland The best shows to see this winter – from the George Michael-inspired TULCA Festival in Galway to an archive exhibition of Phyllis Christopher’s photographs in Birmingham BY FRIEZE | 17 NOV 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Helen Levitt Captures the Theatre of New York’s Street Life At London’s Photographers’ Gallery, a retrospective of the US artist is an intimate yet unsentimental look into a bygone era BY JULIE HRISCHEVA | 14 NOV 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Adam Farah Creates a Y2K Sensory Time Warp At Camden Art Centre, the artist creates a teenage dreamland with mini discs, Mariah Carey and grape soda to evoke inmate adolescent memories BY KEVIN BRAZIL | 08 NOV 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Jordan Casteel Finds Beauty in the Fleeting Commonplace In her inaugural show at Massimo De Carlo London, the artist and recent recipient of the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship renders today’s world with thoughtful tranquillity BY NIMCO KULMIYE HUSSEIN | 01 NOV 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Pamela Rosenkranz Searches for Ancient Wisdom in Modern Technology At Sprüth Magers in London, the artist’s robotic snake is a harbinger of destruction and regeneration BY TOM MORTON | 25 OCT 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Pablo Bronstein’s Pleasantly Hellish Visions At Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, the artist’s depictions of the excesses of consumerism and empire are all-too seductive BY CAL REVELY-CALDER | 20 OCT 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Phyllis Christopher Shares Joyous Moments of Queer Survival A tactile archive exhibition of the artist’s photography at Birmingham’s Grand Union evokes the joyful resilience of LGBTQ+ people in the face of adversity BY EMILY SCARROTT | 18 OCT 21 CRITIC'S GUIDES , UK REVIEWS 7 Shows to See in London During Frieze Week The best exhibitions on view during the fair – from Doron Langberg’s splashy gay paintings at Victoria Miro to Theaster Gates’s homage to clay at Whitechapel Gallery BY SEAN BURNS | 14 OCT 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Helen Marten and the Thingness of Words In Sadie Coles’s sprawling Kingly Street gallery, Helen Marten lays out an exquisite corpse of ordinary affects. It’s impossible to see in totality so we rely on the clues BY ALICE BUCKNELL | 30 SEP 21 EU REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS The Top Five Shows to See in the UK and Europe What to see this weekend – from the frustrated sexuality of Jack O’Brien’s sculpture in London to Martha Jungwirth’s energetic abstractions in Paris BY FRIEZE | 23 SEP 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Jack O’Brien Cruises for Ghosts The artist’s solo show at London’s Ginny on Frederick creates a complex confrontation with fragmented, sexualized humanity BY SAM MOORE | 23 SEP 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Bassam Al-Sabah’s Shapeshifting Avatars At Gasworks, London, the artist queers the conventional masculinity of the action-adventure video game BY CHRIS HAYES | 13 SEP 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS The Five Best Institutional Shows to See in the UK From Paula Rego’s unflinching women to Ellen Harvey’s mournful, forgotten buildings, these are the best institutional shows in the UK BY FRIEZE | 03 SEP 21 REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Ellen Harvey’s Archive of Lost Architecture At The Turner Contemporary, Margate, the artist’s installation mournfully homages sites lost over time – such Coney Island Illuminations and London’s The Joiners Arms BY GEORGE UPTON | 30 AUG 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Zadie Xa’s Ecological Allegory At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist's multimedia installation follows the shamanic goddess Princess Bari and a host of avatars on a hero’s journey through climate collapse and renewal BY ALICE BUCKNELL | 12 AUG 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Top 5 Shows to See in the UK and Ireland this August From a major retrospective by Karla Black in Edinburgh to a photographic investigation into the fatalities of the Irish revolution in County Cork, here are our must see shows BY FRIEZE | 28 JUL 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Karla Black’s Trouble with Meaning At Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the artist’s retrospective approaches materials in a child-like manner with little regard for the objects’ origins or histories BY TOM JEFFREYS | 28 JUL 21 EXHIBITION REVIEWS , INTERVIEWS , UK REVIEWS Leah Clements and Harun Morrison’s Underwater Revelations Jamila Prowse speaks to the artists about their approach to new, aquatic temporalities, from ocean to darkroom, as they have separate shows at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects BY JAMILA PROWSE, HARUN MORRISON AND LEAH CLEMENTS | 26 JUL 21 CRITIC'S GUIDES , EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS A Domestic Odyssey: How Artists are using Video to Explore the Changing Faces of 'Home' Recently screening in galleries across southeast UK, videos by artists including Rosa Aiello, Prem Sahib and Metahaven shift our understanding of the domestic and what it means to live locally BY RÓISÍN TAPPONI | 23 JUL 21 CRITIC'S GUIDES , EXHIBITION REVIEWS , UK REVIEWS The Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture Dances Between the Historical and Personal Across spaces in London, authors, artists and collectives from southwest Asia, north Africa and the wider diaspora fuse storytelling and performance to preserve personal histories BY HIBA MOHAMED | 15 JUL 21 PREV 1 / 5 NEXT THE COMPANY ABOUT PARTNERS PRESS CAREERS ADVERTISE CONTACT US HELP MEMBERSHIP FAQS PRIVACY POLICY LEGALS COOKIE POLICY FOLLOW US FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Sign up for email updates on the latest frieze talks, fairs and events. © FRIEZE 2020 MANAGE PREFERENCES | DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION We Care About Your Privacy We and our partners store and/or access information on a device, such as unique IDs in cookies to process personal data. 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