Contributor
Tom Morton

Tom Morton is a writer, curator and regular contributor to frieze based in Rochester, UK. He is the curator of the forthcoming exhibitions 'Roger Hiorns: Depotenziare' at C+N Canepaneri, Milan (opening November 2024), and 'A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now' at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (opening February 2025).'

Some suggestions for the International Council of Museums

BY Tom Morton |

This year, all the shortlisted artists were named joint winners – what to make of this act of (institutionally approved) subversion?

BY Tom Morton |

In an exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, the artist looks to the local marshes of Canvey Island with a weird degree of hope  

BY Tom Morton |

To expect the progressive, internationalist art world to participate in a celebration of Brexit is to fire a volley into the culture war

BY Tom Morton |

A new spirit of bleak realism and self-questioning has infiltrated comic adaptations everywhere

BY Tom Morton |

‘What our descendants will make of this object depends on what survives of us’

BY Tom Morton |

Lisson Gallery at Store Studios, London, UK

BY Tom Morton |

South London Gallery, UK

BY Tom Morton |

Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

BY Tom Morton |

Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

BY Tom Morton |

Gagosian, London, UK

BY Tom Morton |

Tom Morton on Ragnar Kjartansson and the eternal return

BY Tom Morton |

Natalie Dray, Kendrick Lamar and James Magee: Tom Morton shares his highlights from 2015

BY Tom Morton |

How well do you remember 2015?

BY Tom Morton |

De Hallen, Haarlem, the Netherlands

BY Tom Morton |

Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

BY Tom Morton |

EXHIBITIONS In a year in which documenta 14’s Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk announced that his 2017 edition of the quinquennial mega show will be partly staged in Athens, the Greek capital played host to some fantastic exhibitions, not least in the independent spaces Kunsthalle Athena (‘This is Not My Beautiful House’, curated by Marina Fokidis), State of Concept (a solo show by Basim Magdy, curated by Iliana Fokianaki) and Totàl (‘They are indeed the principle of things, and yet they are not interpretable and empty as mirrors’, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro).

BY Tom Morton |

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

BY Tom Morton |

Movie stars, late capitalism and fragmented attention spans

BY Tom Morton |

Rashid Johnson talks to Tom Morton about fiction, humour and homage

BY Tom Morton |