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Adrian Searle

Adrian Searle is an art critic for the Guardian and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London

June 2024

  • Inches from injury … kids at play in Havana.

    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets review – children of the world unite in a health and safety nightmare

  • Tavares Strachan, You Belong Here, Prospect 3 New Orleans, 2014. (Installation view from Prospect 3 Biennale, New Orleans, LA). Blocked out neon travelling installation on the Mississippi River. 30 ft x 80 ft on 100-ft barge.

    Tavares Strachan review – encyclopaedic art that sizzles with life

May 2024

  • ‘I try to stay away from self-pity’ … Nan Goldin in her apartment in Brooklyn.

    ‘These are chilling McCarthyist times’: Nan Goldin on her shame over Gaza – and the film that made people faint

  • A clamour of touches, moods and modes … Grace by Alvaro Barrington, standing front.

    Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen

  • TOM OF FINLAND On the Bike 1973 Graphite on paper 30 x 25 cm

    Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland review – ‘One’s trying to make you laugh, the other’s trying to make you horny’

  • Sounds hang in the air … Steve McQueen’s Bass in the concrete basement of Dia Beacon.

    Steve McQueen: Bass review – ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’

April 2024

  • Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow.

    This Turner prize shortlist is one in the eye for petty nationalists

    Adrian Searle
  • Refugee Astronaut by Yinka Shonibare.

    Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once

  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

  • A man, blurred, walks towards a massive rectangular black Richard Serra painting with a triangle of white coming down on the left and going up on the right

    Richard Serra: Six Large Drawings review – planes of black that pull you under

March 2024

  • Are you inside or outside? … A Serra work in Seattle in 2007.

    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, Pieta, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Alexander V. Petalas.

    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
  • Heitor dos Prazeres, Untitled, 1965.tif Heitor dos Prazeres, Untitled, 1965 Courtesy Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte © the Estate of Heitor dos Prazeres Photograph by Sergio Guerini

    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

  • Father Stretch My Hands by Nathaniel Mary Quinn (2021)

    The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art

  • Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles at Whitechapel Gallery., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 14 Feb 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (14347357k) A tango performance set against a ballroom backdrop reconstructs a scene from Ettore Scola's ground-breaking film Le Bal (1983) - Le Bal (Dreams Have No Titles), 2022 - 'Dreams Have No Titles' by French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Galler. Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale - this is the UK premiere. Encompassing performance, music, dance, installation and film, the exhibition unfolds as a series of immersive sets and runs from 15 February - 12 May 2024. Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles at Whitechapel Gallery., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 14 Feb 2024

    Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles review – magic moments in the bar that can take you anywhere

  • Feliciano Centurión, Eye with ñanduti c.1994, from La Mirada [the Gazing Eye series] Courtesy Cecilia Brunson Projects and Familia Feliciano Centurión

    Unravel review – a gorgeously excessive tangled knot of a show, full of blood, pain and pleasure

  • Born to be mild … Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer 1967.

    Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – wild shrieks, audacious instructions and bare bottoms

  • Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding

  • Beyond Form review: the dogged gunk rockers who besieged the art world – and the disco

January 2024

  • Prepare to meet thy doomscroll … Kruger’s new show.

    ‘As subtle as a brick in the face’: Barbara Kruger’s cacophonous Trumpspeak premonitions

    The US artist’s work is a riot of words and images that now seem to have eerily foreshadowed Donald Trump – and a grinding, alarming soundtrack has been added for this astonishing, rattling exhibition
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