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Adrian Searle

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

March 2026

  • Adrian Searle inside Jennifer Rubell's sculpture Portrait of the Artist at the Frieze London art fair in 2013.

    ‘Money! Glamour! Yachts! But not for me!’ Adrian Searle relives 30 glorious years as our chief art critic

    He has faced off a fighter jet, ridden a motorised bed and even been a Beano character. As he steps down, the mighty Guardian critic delivers his insights, confesses his crimes and relives his highs

February 2026

  • Beatriz González Señor presidente, qué honor estar con usted e n este momento histórico (Mr President, What an Honor To Be with You at This Historic Moment), 1987. Casas Riegner, Bogotá © Beatriz González. Courtesy the artist

    Beatriz González review – the corpses pile up in a gripping retrospective that can be difficult to bear

  • Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888.

    The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

January 2026

  • New ways of seeing … film still from Pierre Huyghe’s Liminals, at Halle am Berghain, Berlin.

    Pierre Huyghe: Liminals review – terrifying quantum visions in a notorious Berlin club take seeing beyond believing

  • Couple in bed, Chicago (1977).

    Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency review – an electrifying parade of sex, smoke and sullen silence

December 2025

  • Tracey Emin’s My Bed, 1998; and La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.

    Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026

    Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions, plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream
  • David E Scherman dressed for war by Lee Miller, London 1942.

    2025 in culture
    The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

    Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year
  • Drawings and colourful sculptures constructed out of video tape

    Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

    The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins

November 2025

  • John Constable, The White Horse, 1819, detail © The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr

    Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

  • Current: Dark Colours 12, 2025.

    Bridget Riley: Learning to See review – optical mastery leaves you gasping for air

  • Harold Offeh Selfie Choreography, 2017-2020 Workshop presented for East Side Projects, Birmingham, UK 2020. Photo: Ashley Carr

    Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet review – desire, despondency and disco divas

  • Still from Noémie Goudal, The Story of Fixity (2025). Courtesy of Artangel.

    Noémie Goudal The Story of Fixity review – welcome to the jungle and please mind the puddles

October 2025

  • Meg Webster’s almost hemispherical dome of smooth, compacted clay at Minimal.

    Minimal review – primal, oddly vulnerable and boasting a man’s weight in mints

  • Gerhard Richter Lilak, 1982 (Detail)

    ‘Made my hair fly up’: the electrifying genius of Paris’s Gerhard Richter extravaganza – review

  • Copies of Courbet’s Origine du Monde with pages from the Guardian.

    A notorious nude and pages from the Guardian? Claire Fontaine’s dazzling show has got the lot!

  • Detail of Fantasy and Masks c.1960 by Uche Okeke.

    Nigerian Modernism review: sacred groves, a shackled king and astonishing hair

September 2025

  • Nnela Kalu. Turner Prize 2025. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Bradford. Photograph by David Levene 19/9/25

    Turner prize 2025 review – puzzling banners, tinkling bells, burning landscapes and bum-like sculptures

    There are calls for peace, intimations of violence, Korean folklore and spiralling vortices: everyone has a spiel but one artist stands out
  • Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012.

    Kerry James Marshall review – astonishing visions of black America, from bar-room boozers to families in space

    Kidnappings, enslavement, cops and squad cars, golfers, picnics, croquet-players, interstellar travellers … the US artist’s largest ever European show takes in an extraordinary range of experience in a breathtaking show
  • Hilary Lloyd, work in progress, 2025.

    Hilary Lloyd review: on Dennis Potter’s trail through an enchanted forest of film

    The artist’s exhaustive engagement with the singular playwright leads us through landmark shows via midair screens, cat-videos and lunch with Richard E Grant

August 2025

  • Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet, Home Ground: The Architecture of Football and Space

    Space, stadiums, poses and prizes: the best art and architecture of autumn 2025

    The season’s standouts include mighty Picassos, mesmerising mushrooms, the visions of Kerry James Marshall, the combat photography of Lee Miller – and a return trip to space
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