Adrian Searle is an art critic for the Guardian and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London
October 2024
Mire Lee’s Turbine Hall review – as kitsch as tatty Halloween decorations
Mike Kelley review – full-tilt blast through exorcised demons and eviscerated toys
September 2024
Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The US artist has rifled the Fitzwilliam’s collections and ruffled the calm of its gilded masterpieces with playful unruliness and stark, neon-lit questions
Turner prize 2024 review – vitality, surprise … and a Ford Escort in a doily
The nominees bring in bottles of Irn-Bru, gigantic concrete jewellery and blood-red footprints in a show filled with moving cultural collisions and humour
‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art
She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her
August 2024
Autumn arts preview 2024
From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024
From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers
June 2024
Francis Alÿs: Ricochets review – children of the world unite in a health and safety nightmare
Tavares Strachan review – encyclopaedic art that sizzles with life
May 2024
‘These are chilling McCarthyist times’: Nan Goldin on her shame over Gaza – and the film that made people faint
Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen
Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland review – ‘One’s trying to make you laugh, the other’s trying to make you horny’
Steve McQueen: Bass review – ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’
April 2024
This Turner prize shortlist is one in the eye for petty nationalists
Adrian Searle
Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once
John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey
Richard Serra: Six Large Drawings review – planes of black that pull you under
March 2024
Molten magnificence: how Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space
The American’s mighty masterpieces – straight, curved or set at thrilling angles – sucked everyone nearby into their mysterious gravity. Our critic pays tribute to art’s legendary man of steel
Matt Connors: Finding Aid review – fearless exhibition full of unexpected pleasures
The American painter makes a fascinating curator, bringing together 21 artists’ works – from cracked pots to sensual paintings – into a diverting display
Some May Work As Symbols review – this raucous Brazilian art extravaganza can stop you in your tracks
Raven Row, London From cool Bauhaus-inspired pieces to portraits of people with terrifying teeth, this refreshing show of 50s-70s art revels in a sense of discord
February 2024
The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art
From an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and painting
