Jonathan P. Watts

A slew of new books discuss the social and political history of scent, from holy smokes to slave ships

The 1994 exhibition, ‘The Institute of Cultural Anxiety’, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London resonates powerfully with the culture and politics of 2019

An exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, offers compelling evocations of causality and correlation

‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’

Lyon, France

W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

On Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the death of Ian Brady, and what laughter might conceal

Blain | Southern, London, UK

The Hayward Gallery at 180 The Strand, London, UK

One hundred years since the birth of dada, what does the future hold for Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Cumbria?

A cross-generational look at how artists have survived in London and why they continue to stay

Campoli Presti, London, UK

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK

Modern Art Oxford, UK