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One of the ambitious Ghanaian artist’s spectacular installations will soon enrobe the Barbican. He reveals his work’s political intentions

On a recent, damp morning in London, Ibrahim Mahama sat in a cafe, scrolling through photographs on his laptop of an athletics stadium in Tamale, Ghana. They show dozens of people at work in the arena, laying out enormous, magenta-coloured pieces of cloth under the blazing sun – as if designing an outfit for a giant.

Hong Kong Art Month just ended and it was the biggest it's ever been. Take a look at what went down, including a star-studded edition of Art Basel Hong Kong.

For thirty years, Darren Almond has explored the nature of time through several distinct yet mutually reinforcing streams of work.

Sculptor Richard Hunt (1935–2023), who died in December at the age of eighty-eight, is honored with a comprehensive exhibition of his early works, currently on view at White Cube. Early Masterworks homes in on the artist’s output from 1955–1969, a fruitful decade that saw the young Hunt—later to become acclaimed for his large, public sculptures—testing, experimenting, and refining the distinctive style that would become his own.