The real irony of King Tutankhamun is that his successors tried to destroy all evidence that he ever existed, for political reasons, yet today he is the most famous – and therefore the more eternal – of the Egyptian rulers. They have long since been forgotten; King Tut, the boy king, has survived for eternity. […]
While there were raves in the 5o’s and 60′s, they fell out of fashion and, in retrospect, were pretty tame affairs compared to the new waves of popular raves in the 80′s and 90′s, fuelled by electronic music and the acid house scene. SWEET HARMONY: RAVE | TODAY at the Saatchi Gallery celebrates the people, […]
Two new and different exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery: sculptures and paintings by the British artist Johnnie Cooper (born 1950), seen by some as continuing the tradition of the previous generation of artists such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and the radically-different Australian artist Jenny Watson with her ‘A Horses Tale’ created earlier this […]
At the edge is blackness, but the pictures comes alive as you move into towards the centre. Why would you buy a camera when smartphone technology is developing in leaps and bounds and you can achieve such defined, detailed and deep photographs on your phone? Paola Ismene from Mexico studied Communication Sciences and Photography. As […]
Unit London has always been on the move. Starting with pop-ups in West London in 2013, it has gone from strength to strength, moving to Soho and Covent Garden before it settled in its long term base in Hanover Square. Now it has gone back west, this time to King’s Road in Chelsea and the […]
Until a few years ago, Chelsea had an annual festival with events across the area. It now seems to have split into a number of different festivals, but over the past two weeks there definitely has been a feeling of festivity, no doubt helped by the weather, with art, flowers and gardening shows bringing adventurous […]
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 […]
Influencing the development of art in Africa, the Khartoum School was formed in the 1960s with a focus on the Khartoum’s College of Fine and Applied Arts. Work by three of the most influential Sudanese members is now on show at the Saatchi Gallery showing a simplicity of form, which is interestingly similar to contemporary […]
Remember those wobbly toys which you had as a child which, no matter how hard you pushed them, always bounced back upright (apparently they were called “wibble wobbles”)? Russian sculptor Gregory Orekhov’s daughter Agatha had such a toy when she was young and Orekhov has recreated a larger sculptural version named after her. Orekhov has […]
A pained faces peers out through the window of the Surman detention centre, desperate for food, hands squeeze through the small opening in the cell door in the Garabili detention centre, desperate for water, food, cigarettes – and release, a man grabs at the metal fencing and barbed wire which defines his living space in a Syrian refugee camp, while, as […]
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