Glasgow International review – so how many art critics can you fit in an Opel?
This year’s biennial takes you up tenement staircases and into city centre car parks to see fine work from Delaine Le Bas, Cathy Wilkes and Lawrence Abu Hamdan
May 2024
Steve McQueen: Bass review – ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’
Marian Zazeela obituary
March 2024
‘So dehumanising’: Prem Sahib on making an artwork out of a Suella Braverman speech
The artist, who took lockers from a gay sauna into galleries, has turned the former home secretary’s speech about the illegal migration bill into a sinister sonic maelstrom
August 2023
‘An Aussie icon’: burnt-out car wreck begins 4,356km journey across Western Australia
The 1975 Mazda ute has been transformed into a wall-of-sound instrument and canvas for Gija stories as part of a 12-stop production travelling from the Kimberley to Perth
The cross-cultural circuits between west Africa and south London ignite startling works – and snacks! – by artists including Yinka Shonibare and Chiizii
June 2023
The sound ecologist capturing a disappearing world: ‘70% of habitats I recorded are gone’
Bernie Krause has been recording sounds from the natural world for 55 years. A new San Francisco exhibition of his work offers a moving plea for the environment
January 2023
‘At first, it’s fun’: could a night in Sydney’s ‘mushroom’ tower make me lucid dream?
The Commercial Travellers’ Association Club has been transformed into a retro hotel, complete with a soundscape that encourages lucid dreaming. Kate Hennessy checks in
June 2022
A Thousand Words for Weather; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 – review
Climate is the subject of a mesmerisingly subtle Artangel installation – but as the theme for the RA’s annual sprawl, it produces mostly disappointing results
May 2022
Our Time on Earth review – ear-splitting obstacle course of barmy solutions to the climate crisis
Whether pondering dinner with pests, reinventing myself as a vegetable or being deafened by a waterfall that sounded like industrial machinery, this hectic show made me want to flee
March 2022
Mira Calix was an open-hearted musician who brought magic to the everyday
Jude Rogers
The Warp Records producer and composer, who has died at 51, broke out of the album format to make immersive, haunting, deeply human works of sound art
November 2021
Inside the world of foley artists: ‘Watermelons are brilliant for the sound of brains hitting the floor’
They are film and television’s unsung heroes: the people who create sounds, for everything from crunchy snow, kissing and horses’ hooves. Just don’t mention coconuts
August 2021
‘Come on this journey with me’: Elaine Mitchener, Britain’s boldest vocalist
Classically trained with a three-octave range, the genre-exploding performer dissolves her voice into astonishing gasps and stutters to confront the horror of colonial history
June 2021
Barbers, books and bakers: how migrant hotspots inspired the Serpentine Pavilion
Mohamed Bourouissa on France’s identity crisis: ‘We’ve got catching up to do!’
May 2021
To infinity and beyond: the spectacular sensory overload of Ryoji Ikeda’s art
Incandescent light, the thud of Kyoto nightclubs, particle physics … it all goes into Ryoji Ikeda’s extraordinary sensory symphonies. He talks about his upcoming show at 180 The Strand
December 2020
Science Weekly
Deep Blue Notes: episode three – podcast
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Deep Blue Notes: episode two – podcast
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