Harry Thorne

Why are we so quick to praise mass participation?

‘IF THE SNAKE’ shows a world caught in limbo – or hell  

A show at Gagosian, London, pairs the pop master with the early twentieth-century eccentric, beloved of Duchamp

A response to the late Greek artist’s survey at Fondazione Prada, Venice

Two concurrent exhibitions in London use mark-making as a way to get at something beyond what we see

The first in our series of reports from the 2019 Venice Biennale: the National Pavilions in the Giardini

A photograph by Berenice Abbott, and its stubborn refusal to be read

The Hong Kong-born artist showcases the darkly comic potential of cartoon visuals

This year’s biennial amplifies previously silenced voices, but the results are discordant

The poet’s new collection chronicles a father’s succumbing to dementia and a daughter’s attempt to endure

In an era marked by dishonesty, what of the age-old assumption that the eyes cannot lie?

‘This is the passing of time visualized through a contrapuntal freezing of it’

The German artist’s latest exhibition in New York ‘reopens the wounds of colonialism’ – supposedly

An exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London, explores how the artist captured the piercing intimacies of life 

A look behind the artist’s teasing false promises at K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

The artist draws on psychoanalysis and an ancient calendar to explore the idea that life has a predetermined narrative at Barbara Wien, Berlin

A visual essay born out of a trip the Polish artist made three years ago to the South Caucasus

A mother’s death, a father’s disinterest: Jean Frémon’s semi-factual biography of the artist captures a life beyond repair

The continued dominance of UK-US writers makes a mockery of the Man Booker’s ‘global outlook’

On the eve of the World Cup, Harry Thorne on the art world’s petulant refusal to embrace the beautiful game