Robin Kirkey

An apology was always likely to preface Emancipation, the brawny drama of American slavery presented as a comeback for star Will Smith. And yet, in the end, the mea culpa came from co-producer Joey McFarland. At last week’s premiere…
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Jeppe Hein sits down and produces some paper and a tin of watercolours. We’re going to do a quick painting exercise, the Copenhagen- and Berlin-based Danish artist tells me, and invites me to choose a colour. The point is to fill a single…
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OrlandoGarrick Theatre, London At the heart of ‘Orlando’ is a luminous performance from Emma Corrin © Marc Brenner Emma Corrin’s Orlando rises from a rumpled bed, dressed in a silky shirt and little…
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Six-monthly auction sales in Hong Kong have had their worst results since 2018, with this season marking the third consecutive drop, according to ArtTactic. Its analysis finds that the October-to-December evening sales made a total…
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Twenty-five years ago, Lisha Bell and Maya Mitchell decided to create their own safe space at the University of Southern California. They wanted to showcase a talent they loved: dance.Bell and Mitchell were in their sophomore year when they…
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Veronica Ryan is much too good to win the Turner prize – I feared. Or rather, too good for what it so often seems to be, a brash, loud, sensational crowd-pleaser.She is none of those things. Ryan’s sculptures are meditative and poetic,…
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Veronica Ryan, an artist who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts.Ryan, 66, becomes the oldest artist to win…
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Veronica Ryan, an artist who created the first permanent public artwork to commemorate the Windrush Generation, has won this year’s Turner Prize, the UK’s best-known contemporary art award. Ryan’s sculptures, which use both natural…
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“We can build on the Moon”At BIG, Bjarke Ingels takes a luxury approach to a low-cost lifestyle Bjarke Ingels’ Mountain Dwellings low-cost-housing project in Ørestad, Copenhagen © Jakob Boserup What…
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I first met John Lennon in 1975, backstage at a televised event in New York when I was staff photographer for the SoHo Weekly News. Years later, while I was still at the paper, we decided to run an interview with Yoko Ono ahead of the…
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