Manipulated By Marina Abramovic: Immersive Performance Piece Creates Collective Response
I am dispersing with the usual third person format in summarising Marina Abramović’s residence at the Serpentine, this being an… Read More
18 June 2014
Reviews
Sean Scully: Immersing And Mesmerising As Rothko’s Seagram murals
Sean Scully’s eighth solo show is currently on view at Timothy Taylor, the artist’s first in London since 2010. The… Read More
14 June 2014
Pinta Art Fair And Warm Weather Bring A Latin Vibe To London
I love Pinta! Yes a sweeping statement but this fair is (and there are so many out there) one that… Read More
13 June 2014
Kara Walker’s Sphinx An Unrealised Proposal To Honor Mammies
Upon entering the disused Domino sugar factory, in New York the first thing you notice is the smell. It’s pungent,… Read More
12 June 2014
Ai Weiwei And Richard Long Conceptual vs The Physical Qualities Of Materials
Threaded throughout the Lisson gallery’s mission statement, its essays on exhibited artists Ai Weiwei and Richard Long, is that very… Read More
12 June 2014
A-list Artists Bargain Price Tags Art Car Boot Fair 2014
The 11th annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair took place yesterday, Sunday 8 June 2014. The fantastic weather added to… Read More
9 June 2014
Piet Mondrian Neo Plasticism And Urban Spacial Relationships Tate Liverpool
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was one of the most important contributors to the development of abstract art in the early part… Read More
9 June 2014
Sean Scully: A Modernist Meets The Masters Beneath The Dreaming Spires
Sean Scully Encounters: A New Master Among Old Masters is the first exhibition at the Christ Church Picture Gallery Oxford… Read More
7 June 2014
David LaChapelle: Modern Temples Of Consumerist Worship An Ominous Vision
In the first of our Artist to Artist series Michal Cole talks to and reviews the American photographer David LaChapelle’s… Read More
6 June 2014
Royal Academy Launches Their Great British Salon Of Contemporary Art
With summer well and truly here, the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual Summer Exhibition launches the great British salon, with… Read More
5 June 2014
Katja Loher Expresses The Fragmentation Of Her Beloved Harmonious Cosmos
BANG BANG! the first New York solo exhibition for Swiss-born artist Katja Loher, is a new and evolving phase of… Read More
29 May 2014
London Degree Shows Get Going With Impressive Central Saint Martins
This weekend saw the opening of the first of Central St Martin’s degree shows. On display were works by those… Read More
28 May 2014
Mondrian Margate and Colour: Summer Art Abounds At Turner Contemporary
On a mild Spring morning I set off to Margate and the Turner Contemporary for a day inspired by colour… Read More
25 May 2014
Miles Richmond: Reinvents His Work Through Chromatic Energies
Miles Peter Richmond (1922-2008) was one of David Bomberg’s pupils at the Borough Polytechnic after the Second World War, becoming… Read More
22 May 2014
Laurie Simmons: Isolation, Identity Crisis And The Reinvention Of Culture
Laurie Simmons exhibition ‘Kigurumi and Dollers’ at Wilkinson Gallery in Vyner Street offers a critical observation into contemporary existence. Her… Read More
21 May 2014
Josef Albers: Bauhaus Compositional Practice In Black And White
This exhibition of Josef Albers focuses solely on the artist’s exploration of black throughout his life, with unexpectedly diverse pieces… Read More
16 May 2014
David Hockney iPad Drawings: The Evolution Of An Art Medium
David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength… Read More
14 May 2014
Chris Marker: A life long Obsession With Memory War And Politics
A Grin Without a Cat, at the Whitechapel Gallery till 22 June, is the widest Chris Marker retrospective ever shown… Read More
12 May 2014
Pangaea: A Heterogenous Selection Of Contemporary Artists At The Saatchi Gallery
Around 200 million years ago, a supercontinent called Pangaea – containing what we now know as the earth’s seven continents… Read More
11 May 2014
London Art Exhibitions To See In May 2014 By Paul Carey – Kent
TEN CURRENT CHOICES: Paul Carey – Kent Offers up a selection of the best art exhibitions for May 2014 The… Read More
10 May 2014
Joseph Beuys Jorg Immendorff: Art And Its Revelatory Socio-political Ability
Art Belongs to the People is the second exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, taken from the collection of the… Read More
7 May 2014
Open West 2014 Shows Ambitious Curatorial Vision In Cheltenham
The Art world is saturated with ” Art competitions” offering opportunities for artists of all levels to exhibit their work. … Read More
5 May 2014
Alan Davie A Vigorous Impulsive Spiritual All Arounder At Tate Britain
This mini retrospective of the recently deceased Alan Davie (September 28, 1920 – April 5, 2014) presents eight of his… Read More
2 May 2014
Polke/ Richter: Two Artists Spiralling Apart On A Vastly Different Stylistic Trajectory
When the co-curator of Christie’s historic new exhibition Polke/Richter-Richter/Polke, Darren Leak, wrote of his intentions to convey the two giants… Read More
27 April 2014
Julian Schnabel: Bridging An Unconventional Road Between Figurative And Abstraction
Julian Schnabel’s new exhibition at “The Dairy” successfully accomplishes the rare act of combining abstraction and figurative painting all in… Read More
24 April 2014
Matisse Swan Song Fizzes With Invigorating, Playful Energy: Tate Modern
There is little to fault in terms of curation of ‘The Cut Outs’, a chronological survey of Matisse’s late period… Read More
24 April 2014
Henri Matisse: Expressive Simplistic Colour And Pattern Painted With Scissors
Let’s not beat around the bush here – this is a stunning, uplifting, joyous exhibition that reminds everyone what Art… Read More
15 April 2014
Robert Capa: Concern And A Deep Love Of Humanity
“TODAY WAS ONE OF THE GREAT PICTURE DAYS IN LIFE’S OFFICE” read a cable from the editors of Life, a… Read More
12 April 2014
Tale Of Two Cities: An Artist’s Pilgrimage From Transylvania To LA
The paintings of Marius Bercea, which are presented in Blain|Southern’s current show, recalls the artist’s personal pilgrimage from his home… Read More
11 April 2014
SP-Arte Sao Paulo International Art Fair Round Up
SP-Arte, the São Paulo International Art Fair 2014, which ran from 2-6 April 2014 and celebrated its 10th edition this… Read More
9 April 2014
Martin Creed: First Major Survey A Multi Sensory Fun Fair
With 39 metronomes ticking at every possible speed, a one-note musical symphony, a rainbow of 1000 prints made using broccoli,… Read More
1 April 2014
The Great War in Portraits: A Painterly Remembrance National Portrait Gallery
Of all the events and memorial activities scheduled for this year to mark the centenary of the beginning of the… Read More
30 March 2014