One of the benefits of the current pandemic situation is that we are all appreciating the value of local green spaces, parklands and nature far more than perhaps we did. Hopefully this will be reflected in future planning and land-use policies to avoid concentrated urban developments with minimal outdoor space such as in Vauxhall where […]
We need something positive in this strange and uncertain time with the uncertainty of the coronavirus and its future impact on our lives and our economy. The Affordable Art Fair provided one of the last glimmers of sunshine, before art and other fairs disappear for a few months. Earlier in the week, at Excel, the […]
How do you turn a wall into a door? It’s easy. If you are an artist – you just take a coloured crayon or pencil and draw a door on the wall. Job done! The ground floor windows of the elegant 18th century townhouse in Mayfair are frosted over. Is it open? Look carefully and […]
Walk along any of our major streets and look at the colours that attack your senses? They’re not exactly subtle – bright red buses and post vans, bright yellow direction signs, yellow and red-striped barriers around road works, fluorescent jackets worn by workmen, and increasing numbers of brash ‘Mid-Season Sale’ signs plus many more, all […]
You are an up and coming author; you don’t feel that your agent and publisher are doing enough to promote your current book; this is the place to write your next, to get your own back, about an agent and publisher who attend a book fair and disappear, never to be seen again. Security checked […]
The immense Brutalist architecture of 180 Strand, formerly Arundel Great Court, smothered in scaffolding and cladding, has a small discrete entrance, tucked away in one corner like a secret entrance to an unknown world. You walk past the security guard into a dark space in the middle of London, past a sign that reminds you […]
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 […]
The broken skylight of an old warehouse roof, twisted trees perhaps the result of a forest fire, the tangled steelwork of a collapsed building, perhaps again the result of a fire, all silhouetted against an empty sky. These have been graphically painted by British artist Tony Bevan in his exhibition at Ben Brown, showing the […]
Entering through a small discrete doorway, you walk down a long corridor and open the door into what appears to be a hospital room, with two hospital beds in the centre, those beds with metal frames – easy to wash down – and huge wheels with ugly brakes so that they can be moved backwards […]
Silvia Weidenbach’s exhibition at the V&A artistically links her very contemporary work using 3D technology with the historic Gilbert Collection and also reinforces the nonsense of Brexit. Silvia is a German artist, who teaches in London and Glasgow and in 2017 was appointed the Gilbert Collection Resident Artist, the Gilbert Collection being a stunning collection […]
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