I am looking forward to the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s new exhibition at Tate Moden in July this year. His work is always enjoyable to see. Will it include another installation in the Turbine Hall, following on from his success with ‘The Weather Project’ in 2003? As a taster, in the old oil tanks deep […]
Outside through the window, the red of the London buses flash by; inside Zuza Golinska’s red rolls of carpet and Faycal Baghriche’s red-covered furled flags connect to the city outside, along with Jeremy Hutchison’s images of Mercedes car seats which, when opened up on the Balkan borders, had people inside trying to sneak across the […]
Two classical porticos, almost facing each other in Trafalgar Square in London, behind which are three exhibitions of Scottish art, running at the same time as the annual celebration of the birth of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. In the National Gallery, Edwin Landseer’s majestic Monarch of the Glen has travelled down from the National […]
New Cross in South London doesn’t know how lucky it is. The CCA’s current series of exhibitions manages to squeeze three different shows into Goldsmith’s new building. In the ground floor and lower level gallery spaces, the feminist photographer Alexis Hunter shows a substantial and comprehensive series of photographs around the theme of ‘Sexual Warfare’ […]
Last year Bloomberg New Contemporaries was at Block 336 in Brixton in South London; this year it has returned to South London, but to the boundaries of Clerkenwell and Peckham at the South London Gallery (SLG) which, with the recently re-opened Fire Station, provides more and a greater variety of space. Bloomberg New Contemporaries showcases work […]
How many fashionable clothes are worn one or two times, before being discarded or gently wrapped in tissue paper and placed carefully at the back of the wardrobe?. Perhaps a new trend has come along, or washing/cleaning has taken some of the sheen or colour out of the fabric or softened the sharp contours. Is […]
Appropriately, surrounded by the timber panelling and images of ocean liners in the former P&O shipping office, originally built in 1906 to the designs of A T Bolton for the Hamburg America Line, and now the Embassy of Brazil, the 30 finalists of the 2018 VIA Arts Prize bring artists from the United Kingdom, Portugal, […]
It’s a little of a shock to enter through the doors into the pitch black and have to grope your way to find the room beyond, but that is how this exhibition ‘Life Death Rebirth’ starts. Beyond, the dark room is dark except for the moving image of a naked man slowly rising up through […]
One of the best exhibitions of the winter in London, exquisite drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, commemorating the death of the two artists in 1918, though Klimt (born 1862) was 28 years and therefore a generation older than Schiele (born 1890)), comparing and contrasting their styles and […]
One of the joys of walking around London, especially in Mayfair with all its art galleries, is that you sometimes see something that takes you by surprise and draws you in. So it was with the Bowman Gallery this week, as I walked up Duke Street, probably named in honour of James, Duke of York, later […]
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