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Yinka Shonibare

April 2024

  • Decolonised Structures, 2022-23 by Yinka Shonibare winston churchill detail

    Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States review – gorgeously recognisable, but is that enough?

  • Resurrected to ponder and crtitique … Yinka Shonibare CBE, Decolonised Structures.

    Yinka Shonibare CBE review – where Churchill finds his inner psychedelic dandy

November 2023

  • Hibiscus Rising, which was commissioned in memory of David Oluwale, a victim of police racism, was unveiled on Friday as part of Leeds 2023.

    ‘This is going to be our Angel of the North’: Leeds unveils Yinka Shonibare sculpture

    While Hibiscus Rising celebrates a diverse city, it is also in recognition of a dark moment in Leeds’ past

July 2023

  • Still from Entitled, 2018, by Adeyemi Michael.

    Lagos, Peckham, Repeat review – Yoruba culture and musical craft beer

    The cross-cultural circuits between west Africa and south London ignite startling works – and snacks! – by artists including Yinka Shonibare and Chiizii

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top left: the Sara Cultural Centre; Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Farbige Abstufung (1939); Jean Dubuffet, Garden with Melitaea; the Serpentine Pavilion 2021; Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon, Whitechapel Gallery.

    Best culture 2021
    The best art and architecture of 2021 – the year the galleries reopened

    As the galleries reopened, Jean Dubuffet was recast as an incendiary prophet, Poussin revealed his raunchy side – and a giant Swedish ‘plyscraper’ showed the miracle of wood. Our critics rank the highlights of 2021

October 2021

  • The Druithaib’s Ball by Belfast’s Array Collective at the Turner prize 2021 show in Coventry.

    Turner prize 2021; Summer Exhibition 2021 review – there can be no winner

    Social activism not art is the benchmark of a collective-juggling Turner prize

September 2021

  • A gallery view of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2021.

    ‘This has never been so much fun!’: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review

  • Rita Keegan with Lily in the studio, 2021.

    Rita Keegan: the return of black British art’s forgotten pioneer

June 2021

  • Yinka Shonibare.

    ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

    Picasso was so enthralled by African art, he used it to start a revolution. But did it give rise to a fantasy of Africa that still endures? British-Nigerian artist Shonibare tells us why he’s revisiting that seismic moment

April 2021

  • Detail from Lieu de Pèlerinage, 1975, by Jean Dubuffet

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Eye-popping $2m doodles and genius special effects – the week in art

    A taster of Jean Dubuffet’s cartoon-like pictures are online, National Galleries of Scotland gives Ray Harryhausen a ‘virtual experience’ and the British Museum delivers a brief history of the world through objects

March 2021

  • Yinka Shonibare in his London studio.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Yinka Shonibare: ‘You don’t want the next generation to be full of hate'

    The artist on fostering hope, why he doesn’t want a retrospective, and making work inspired by Picasso’s African art collection

January 2021

  • Yinka Shonibare

    Yinka Shonibare to create Leeds memorial for Nigerian who died after police harassment in 1960s

    Yinka Shonibare hopes his forthcoming work will act as a ‘fitting legacy’ to David Oluwale

January 2020

  • Yinka Shonibare and his work The British Library, at Tate Modern in April.

    Observer Design
    Yinka Shonibare: ‘I see what’s happening as an African renaissance’

    The artist talks about his project spaces in London and Nigeria, and Africa’s untapped artistic potential

April 2019

  • Yinka Shonibare with his installation The British Library in Tate Modern, south-east London

    Yinka Shonibare's tribute to UK diversity acquired by Tate

    The British Library artwork features thousands of books celebrating cultural icons

June 2018

  • Tony Cragg

    Cast of characters: encounters with British sculptors – in pictures

  • Zoe Czavda Redo, Tuuli Malla and Xavier Velastin in the project Water Bodies, for the 2018 Whitstable Biennale.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Whitstable makes waves and Howard Hodgkin's last work - the week in art

May 2018

  • Happy birthday … the six stamps to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy.

    Buy a masterpiece for 67p! New stamps by Tracey Emin, Yinka Shonibare, Grayson Perry and more

    Tracey Emin drew her dying mother, Grayson Perry honoured Warhol, and Yinka Shonibare sneaked a bit of Africa into some English brollies … artists reveal all about their dazzling new stamps

March 2018

  • Yinka Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture (SG) I in Central Park. ‘My piece is about the different backgrounds of people coming together

    Yinka Shonibare: behind the artist's new Central Park sculpture

    The British Nigerian artist has unveiled Wind Sculpture (SG) 1, a 23ft fiberglass piece he hopes will promote a message of inclusion in the US

December 2017

  • Jeremy Deller’s Iggy Pop Life Class, 2016.

    From Life review – lacking a vital spark

    A confused survey of life drawing offers little in the way of fresh observation, or hope for the future of a dying art

June 2017

  • Queen Charlotte by Johann Joseph Zoffany (1771) from the Enlightened Princesses exhibition at Kensington Palace

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Royals hit back at Brexit and a modernist takes to the trenches – the week in art

    Three princesses bring enlightenment, Canaletto finds beauty in sweat, and the pumping house that defied Thatcher gets listed – all in your weekly dispatch
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