Beware if Jasmine Thomas-Girvan (born 1961) ever asks you home for dinner. You might be in for a surprise. Here in Mayfair, the dining room table is awash of all sorts of sinister things. The crockery and the silverware are traditional, the sort of thing you would have found in elegant houses in Mayfair a […]
Ten or fifteen years ago, the Latin American art market in London was new and very difficult. For many works, frankly you would be best to sell through New York or Miami, rather than London, albeit the internet gradually came to the fore. Frida Karlo, Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero and, if you were really knowledgeable, […]
In 2013, Michael Grover writing in the Independent called William Eggleston (born 1939) the world’s greatest photographer as Tate Modern opened a new exhibition of his work. Whether that is true or not, he inspired a generation who was making the transition from black and white to colour photography, to use colour, form and shape […]
The colourful, naturalistic, flowing works of Austrian artist Franz West (1947-2012) filled the 18th century townhouse of the David Zwirner Gallery. I probably saw this in the wrong sequence with regard to the exhibition at Tate Modern which I visited afterwards. Ideally, it should have been the other way round as the Tate’s exhibition provides […]
Goodbye white walls. I wonder what the architects Dixon Jones think of Bridget Riley’s addition to their pristine white walls in for the Annenberg Courtyard of the National Gallery in London as part of the East Wing masterplan, created over a decade ago by transforming an unloved external courtyard. Riley’s mural, Messengers, shows that art […]
Hidden within the 18th century interior in Dover Street in Mayfair, something strange is going on. The architecture has been supressed and – look what happens when you do Yoga! This is how you end up – twisted and contorted, with a touch of colour…. American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) twists, turns and folds […]
Grafton Street is the northen extension of Dover Street, turning the corner towards Bond Street with No 24 built in 1789 as the London residence of the Marquis of Salisbury. Substantially altered over the years, it achieved fame in the early 20th century when Helena Rubinstein opened her first Salon de Beaute designed by the […]
It looks like leather, but is actually drawn in pencil; it looks like a drawing of shapes and lines but actually it’s a photograph; it looks like a typical photograph of a school class, but actually is a pencil drawing; it’s called a drawing but is created using projectors and lights. The boundaries between media are […]
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