Photo of Tara Joshi
Tara Joshi

Photo of Tara Joshi

Tara Joshi

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: the beauty of moths

    Artist Sarah Gillespie shines a light on the much-maligned insects with her series of mezzotint prints

    Sat, 4 Jul 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: MC Escher’s boundless art

    The first major retrospective in London of the Dutch artist’s hallucinatory works displays his penchant for the uncanny

    Tue, 23 Jun 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    Albums of the week: Basic, Kelsey Lu, La Sécurité, Gary Bartz and Your Brother’s Keeper

    The Chicago trio Basic’s nimble second album makes the improvisational underground an inviting place. Plus, one to watch Theatre

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: ‘It’s called ffasiwn, look it up!’

    High-fashion meets hope and bemusement in the valleys of south Wales, where children model for labels including Alexander McQueen

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: colonial views of India

    A new exhibition collects together surreal, silvery images from nearly 200 years ago

    Sat, 6 Jun 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Britain’s ‘exultant strangeness’

    A new exhibition celebrates the painters, sculptors and printmakers inspired by the ‘haunting vitality’ of the British landscape

    Fri, 29 May 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: My father and his butterflies

    The discovery that a rare insect was named after her lepidopterist father prompted photographer Rena Effendi to follow in his footsteps

    Sun, 24 May 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Collages of feminism

    Fiona Rogers’s book Cut Out celebrates the female photographers and collagists whose work has been excised from the history of art

    Sun, 17 May 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Man’s best friend, 2045

    Indian photographer Ronny Sen follows a sentient wooden dog into an uncertain future

    Sun, 10 May 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: The books that made Hogarth Press

    An exhibition in Lewes collates the radical writing published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s handpress

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Faces of freedom in Mexico

    Young Mexicans explore their identity in Pieter Henket’s stylised photos

    Sun, 19 Apr 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Rose Wylie’s portraits of wild women

    The 91-year-old’s canvases are a joyful celebration of the female

    Sat, 11 Apr 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: The original cat photographer

    Walter Chandoha’s feline photographs charmed the world long before Instagram

    Sun, 5 Apr 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Grief, bottled

    Abbey Hepner’s milk bottles show the ‘private grief’ of nuclear fallout

    Sun, 29 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: School prom, South Africa-style

    Alice Mann captures the aspiration of teenage school leavers in post-apartheid South Africa

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    Huw Stephens: ‘The Bandsplain podcast is like a thesis on a pop single’

    The BBC radio presenter on Edwyn Collins’ A Girl Like You, Wu-Tang: an American Saga and a comedy festival in mid-Wales

    Sun, 22 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Joel Meyerowitz’s still life subjects

    The American photographer gained ‘another level of wonder’ by focusing on the subjects of Italian painter Giorgio Morandi

    Sat, 14 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Victoria Ruiz’s carnival spirit

    The young artist’s creations celebrate a history of carnival-like resistance in her native Venezuela

    Sat, 7 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: The double life of Fay and Gay

    Samantha Yancey finds joy in the bond shared for 90 years by twins in smalltown Mississippi

    Sun, 1 Mar 2026

  • Tara Joshi
    The grid: Rodney Graham’s inverted trees

    The late Canadian artist’s portraits are rendered upside down, just as our eyes would first see them

    Sat, 21 Feb 2026

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