Sometimes an exhibition just blows you away. Marcus Lyon’s Somos Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London is one of those. At first glance, it appears a photography exhibition, and it would be worth visiting for that alone as Marcus’ photographs are stunning, but it is far more than that. For six months, Marcus Lyons […]
To the outsider, football is a strange sport. While Hank Willis Thomas explored the tribal relationship between football and politics and religion, in quite a benign way, Marcin Dudek’s work is more sinister, as he explores similar relationships, but linked to his own very personal experiences as a teenage member of the Cracovia Football Fan […]
In the centre of Frieze Sculpture 2017 in Regent’s Park was a totem pole made of footballs, one piled carefully one on top of another. Moving from there to a narrow mews in Mayfair, Brook’s Mews, there are more totems, not only footballs, but rugby balls and also cricket bats. American artist Hank Willis Thomas […]
Next week sees the thrilling end of the World Cup with four great teams battling it out for the winner’s glory. There has been much focus on prints, posters and street art to celebrate the world of football, but what of sculpture, which is more permanent than the peripatetic FIFA World Cup or an ice […]
FIFA published a set of limited edition prints for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This followed on its first series published for the World Cup in Germany in 2006, which was a huge success financially and enhanced the image of the World Cup internationally. The South African series included works by 17 international […]
Design Boom reports on Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture – a 35ft diameter “sky mirror” at the AT+T Stadium at Dallas. I hope that he worked out the sunrays and doesn’t have any of the same problems of the Walkie Talkie in London. Not exactly a new idea, but rarely done on this scale. This weekend, […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
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