It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
Henry Maudsley was the pioneering British psychiatrist (1835-1918) who is commemorated in the Maudsley Hospital in South London, to which he contributed the sum of £30,000 towards its establishment in 1907 as a new mental health hospital which would also support teaching and research, which eventually was consolidated in the world-leading Institute of Psychiatry now […]
As we know, the Scots have travelled the world and left their footprint all across the globe. It is therefore good to see the Scottish artist Jim Lambie included in the exhibition ‘Transitions and Transformations’ at the NSU Art Museum. When I was last in Fort Lauderdale in March this year, I enjoyed attending the […]
The scaffolding came down from the entrance of Sotheby’s at the beginning of October to reveal the results of their recent refurbishment, giving them a more contemporary reception, entrance and cafe. Inside they too were showing work for their auctions of modern and contemporary art, perhaps bolder and with more artists from the USA than […]
Following on from the auction on 1st October from the collection of Jeremy Lancaster, Christies, with Frieze on this month, along with the other auction houses pulled out the stops with auctions of post-war and contemporary art with a focus on British, German and Italian art, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry whose ceramic […]
Tate Modern at its best – bursting with creativity. In addition to the main exhibitions of Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson‘s immersive installations and Greek artist Takis’s kinetic art, plus the permanent collections and a fascinating exhibition of the work of the Russian artist Natalia Goncharova, the two buildings that combine to create Tate Modern, including […]
We are so used to art galleries being full of bold large works that it is a shock to find two gallery spaces with only seven works, each relatively small and hanging alone on an uncluttered pure wall. There is something both sinister and religious about Norwegian/German artist Yngve Holen’s ‘Corpus Quality’, with his […]
It was time for the second phase of my Condo 2019 exploration, though unfortunately I picked one of the coldest days of January. Having already explored Soho and Farrington, it was now time to move east to the varied areas of the East End of London. As with my first visit, I discovered new galleries, […]
Nothing is quite what it seems….illusionary, reflective and transparent shapes, mirrors, along with kinetic and geometric installations by over 20 artists from around the world including Anish Kapoor, Fred Sandback, Alicja Kwade and Felix Gonzalez Torres in ‘Shape Shifters’ with art from the last 50 years celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brutalist architecture of […]
With the art crowd invading London this week, the auction houses have stepped up to the mark with auctions of modern and contemporary art. While Christie’s has stellar works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Schutte and others, with a focus on Italian art alongside British, it also has more affordable […]
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