North and South Federal Highway in Dania Beach, Florida, is one of those typical American streets which seems to be endless, where most people drive through, on either side a variety of relatively low-rise buildings of undistinguished architecture, apart perhaps from the Congregational Church, and gaps used for parking or undergoing redevelopment. It has some […]
Pop Art is still alive and well. Brigit Riley created her famous painting ‘Pause’ on show in the current exhibition at the Gazelli Art House in 1964. Now in her late 80′s, she has just completed her staircase mural ‘Messengers’ at the National Gallery in London. Brian Clarke produced his ‘Three Hand Grenades’ in 1969; […]
I wouldn’t like to wander through Parasol Unit on a dark night with the lights turned off, perhaps with a torch lighting up the details of Hyon Gong’s immensely detailed paintings. Or worse, with lightning from a storm flashing into the gallery spaces. In her solo first exhibition in Europe, Gyon’s work responds to recent […]
The 1950′s was a period of great optimism for the future. 1951 saw that great national celebration, the Festival of Britain, attract millions of visitors to London’s South Bank, while the Royal Festival Hall was opened in the same year. The architecture and planning were new and looked to the future, being modernist in style […]
Our civilisation is in flux. It’s not Brexit that will have the largest impact – that will soon be the past and it is the future that we need to look to – AI, VR, the successor to the ipad, digital technology and changing computerisation. Many artists are embracing new technology in innovative ways, moving […]
A nice touch as you enter the newly refurbished and extended Norton Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, on the wall of acknowledgements it says in the characteristic font which has been used throughout the Museum: ‘FOSTER & PARTNERS 2019 – NORMAN FOSTER, FECIT’. Opened earlier this month, on the 9th of February, the relatively simple, […]
Very precisely, London on the 17th of February 2019 will apparently have a population of 81,73,941. It seems a little too acurate. What if a few of them have gone skiing in Switzerland, or off to the beach in Brighton? Ignoring the strange precision, if we look 10 years, or less, into the future, apparently London […]
Frieze goes from strength to strength, the latest fair being in Los Angeles which, with the hot weather, is quite a challenge for the organisers. The balmy autumn weather of London is much more balanced. It is, of course, not the staff in the art galleries that we care about; it is the sensitive […]
From Cuba to Israel…. In the autumn, the Richard Saltoun Gallery was showing a fascinating exhibition by the Cuban artist Gustavo Perez Monzon (born in 1956); now it has moved to Germany with an exhibition of the work of ULAY, born over a decade earlier in 1943, who has used the Poleroid photograph as a […]
It’s interesting, if you google Damiano Spelta you find two people, one a champion at power-boat racing, the other an artist. Both appear to be larger than life…. Are they the same person? The artist Damiano blows up your Rolex watch into a chair, your ballpoint pen or torch into a massive sculptural light fitting […]
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