Isobel Harbison is an art critic based in London. Her book, Performing Image, will be published by the MIT Press later this year.
Isobel Harbison chronicles the Dublin City Gallery's inseparability from the 20th-century politics of its capital namesake
Performed images in contemporary art and everyday life
With a show opening at Hollybush Gardens tomorrow, the artist discusses her career addressing social and political issues through performance
Major new volumes by curators RoseLee Goldberg and Catherine Wood document contemporary art’s most rambunctious medium
A 1926 boozy sketch for a commission intended for the League of Nations building in Geneva was declined for being ‘too bacchanalian’
As two recent London exhibitions of the architect’s photographs show, this underappreciated polymath has always been ahead of her time
Post-Grenfell, mid-Windrush and pre-Brexit, a day-long forum in London invited artists and organizations to re-imagine the communities we live in
Two films and a dance piece focus on our shifting postures in light of connective technology
A multi-faceted collaboration between Matthew Barney, Ragnar Kjartansson and the Iceland Dance Company reflects on ritual and religion
The solace of Boris Charmatz’s danse de nuit in light of the Manchester atrocity
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
The images of Team Refugee at the Olympics offers a glimmer of hope in a gloomy summer
Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
CCA Wattis, San Francisco, USA
The personal process of exhibition-making
Theatrical textiles and characters in clay
What does the term ‘gallerina’ symbolize?
