From depictions of animals to bustling street scenes, the art made for the East India Company could be highly varied and collaborative
This mid-century group of friends and collaborators drew on Surrealism, German Expressionism and more in their eclectic paintings
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The Irish artist is inspired by Philip Guston’s drawings in her London studio, which looks on to a rugby pitch and might be haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin
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The question of how art might usefully engage with social and political issues has long preoccupied artists and curators
Early works by this pioneer of Neo-Concretism are thrilling experiments with geometric forms, planes and space in two and three dimensions
The first Latino master printer in the United States worked closely with artists including Ruth Asawa and Herbert Bayer – and also printed his own designs
The Los Angeles institution’s relationship with the movement stretches back nearly a century, as this selection of masterpieces reveals
