Goodbye to paintbrushes and canvases. Art today can be created from anything, including of course digital media. Perhaps this reflects how children create things from all sorts of objects they find lying around and how prehistoric man created art from everyday objects that he or she could find such as stones, clay, wood and bones […]
The central space with its white walls and high windows could be in New York; the adjacent rooms however have views out to the green grass and winter trees of Kensington Gardens, even though canvases are stacked against wall, as they are in Wade Guyton’s New York studio. On the walls are images which from […]
Visitors to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery are immediately engaged with Rose Wylie’s work their silhouettes project onto the first work they see, with the low winter sun penetrating into the gallery, in the same way that they would create a silhouette if they stood in the light of a film projector, a highly appropriate link […]
If you are an adventurer, travel out to Canning Town in London’s Docklands on the DLR and then walk out into the harsh urban environment of concrete flyovers for the Lower Lee Way and the DLR, along with building sites with their extensive pavement hoardings and, if you are lucky, you might find Trinity Buoy […]
Two different artists, with a link about leaving their home country, in addition to their artistic style. Tess Jaray was born in Vienna in 1937, only to leave for England when her parents emigrated in 1938. She came from a creative and scientific family with her father being a chemical engineer and industrial inventor and […]
What defines national identity? Is it geography and boundaries? Is it national dress, music, culture or art? Is it something genetic in the people’s DNA which might show in facial features, hair colour, body shape or other characteristics? Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa, who now lives in Vienna, believes that language may have much to do […]
Two Polish artists: The first is Monika Sosnowska who takes architectural materials such as reinforcement bars, concrete and steel and twists and turns them into new curving and waving sculptural shapes and configurations, on show against the backcloth of the streets outside through the large glass windows of Hauser & Wirth in London. Her interest […]
You’ve been watching Star Wars and then you go into work the next day. You think it’s bad enough having difficult co-workers who challenge your decisions and ideas – imagine that your co-worker is a robot, who probably has more intelligence than you, albeit it in a particularly logical and non-emotional way. This is not […]
The front of Claridges Hotel is all decorated for Christmas. At the rear, in Brook’s Mews, construction hoardings, workers and lorries suggest building works are going on. Further down are two galleries, Maddox on the left and Ben Brown on the right. Enter Ben Brown and go down the steps and you enter almost a […]
Set against a backcloth of a dull grey winter’s day in London, NEW NOW at Phillips adds colour to Berkeley Square and the buildings around. Mainstream and new artists including Andy Warhol, Eva Aeppli, Kristof Kintera, Yasam Sasmazer, Glenn Kaino, Jonathan Monk, Nazar Bilyk, Egor Zigura, Oleg Pinchuk, Norbert Schwontkowski, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ai Weiwei […]
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