You are an artist and your studio burns down; what do you do?. If you are the Russell West, best known for his work with coloured paint running down urban scenes, into paintpots and even down old boots, you take life in its stride, salvage the old materials from the metal roof and turn it […]
Be careful where you leave your car in case artists find it and take it over, with a 1953 VW beetle turned into a giant Beetle Sphere by Ichman Noor (now worth far more than the original car) or, in the case of an unregistered Fiat 500, having characteristic images applied over it by Tracy […]
The entrance door and window are frozen over with snow…..what is happening inside? A quick check on the text on the window and googling on the mobile phone tell you that…yes this is open; you can enter, before the Christmas lights are lit up in Oxford Street, with lots more streets to follow. Inside, the […]
I have to admit that I’m still not sure why Michele Abeles exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ is called ‘World Cup’ with a picture of twelve football players in formation on a green grassy football pitch as its introduction. There are four different, but interconnected series of works, as Michele Abeles manipulates photographic images […]
Nothing is quite what it seems….illusionary, reflective and transparent shapes, mirrors, along with kinetic and geometric installations by over 20 artists from around the world including Anish Kapoor, Fred Sandback, Alicja Kwade and Felix Gonzalez Torres in ‘Shape Shifters’ with art from the last 50 years celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brutalist architecture of […]
The smooth, finely grained and soft rock alabaster is relatively easy to carve and allows the light to shine through it so that its grain and texture can be celebrated. Much prized by the Egyptians in the making of canopic jars and other objects for burials, it was used for windows in Byzantine and Medieval […]
Milk and oil flowing together, black and white, like the footballs that will, in only four years’ time, be kicked, sliced and spun by national teams from across the world in the Quatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Oil, often referred to as black gold, has become a blessing and a curse. It is everywhere – […]
Outside is a shack built of timber pallets, with freshly washed clothes hanging on the line to dry in the autumn sunshine. Not far away, local people live in brick terraced houses in one direction and multi-million pound apartments in tall tower blocks in the other, but whatever ills there were with previous generations in […]
Spread across three galleries in Zurich, London and Hong Kong, we see new works from Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. Initially, you might think that London has lost out, because the largest works are in the other galleries, but in fact we have a case of ‘small is beautiful’ and the exhibition of his work in […]
Over at London Bridge, the new Science Gallery at King’s College London has opened, bridging science, art and medicine with its first exhibition on the theme of Addiction; while at the Strand/Aldwych, with less of a razzmatazz, is a small, but fascinating exhibition on collaborative projects between artists and academics, from the wide spectrum of […]
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