25 May 2012
You can’t help but admire Tracey Emin’s for wanting to use her name and art for the good in reviving her home town of Margate. She is very passionate in her belief and has a dream that all the fish and chip shops will run out of food as a result of the amount of […]
25 May 2012
Symbolism and mysticism may seem part of an earlier time, but in Mexico City, notions of magic and spirituality are very prominent pieces of a contemporary lifestyle. Since 1531 the Virgin of Guagalupe has become the most powerful symbol for Mexicans, and her image is seen throughout the Americas as a figure of hope, peace, […]
8 May 2012
With the French presidential elections just closed, the London Mayor decided, and the race for American president still in progress, it seems everyone is talking about politics – even the art world. This year, dare to consider your political alliances differently with a dual exhibition by IRWIN and NSK on offer at Calvert22. These […]
8 May 2012
The Institute of Contemporary Art in London asserts that it is the centre for critical artworks and cutting edge contemporary culture. As the UK continues to adjust to the end of analogue broadcasting, the ICA presents a timely exhibition, Remote Control, to examine the impact of television and media on art. Media permeates our […]
7 May 2012
Jack Castle gives his pick of the best exhibitions on and around Vyner Street in the month of May… Trisha Baga: Rock @ Vilma Gold (until 20 May 2012) While not particularly quiet or specifically elegant, Rock is a very good show. It consists of three video installations, projected from the floor through (and occasionally […]
6 May 2012
This could be Rotterdam, or anywhere – (Review by Carla Raffinetti) Rotterdam is something of a cultural Mecca in the Netherlands. Be warned though: the city is not attractive to behold to the naked eye. The Nazis razed it to the ground during the Second World War. This prompted a flurry of construction, resulting in […]
4 May 2012
Every girl dreams of owning a pair of red-soled Louboutin heels – exquisitely designed with stilettos reaching impossible heights. And the Design Museum’s current retrospective of Christian Louboutin’s career indulges the shoe fanatic in everyone, exhibiting all of the iconic designs that one would expect, along with a few added surprises. The shoes on display […]
2 May 2012
London eagerly awaits the opening of the largest ever exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings on view at The Queen’s Gallery this Friday, 4 May, 2012. Here, ArtLyst brings you the inside scoop on this remarkable exhibition. Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci is widely famous for his array of vocations as a painter, […]
30 April 2012
Sharon Strom offers Her Pick Of The Best Current Art Exhibitions In The Shoreditch Area… Known for its hipster-chic bars and its two-wheeled transport, Shoreditch certainly has enough colour and life to brighten up any rainy London day. The art exhibitions in this London locale, while often adventurous and sometimes controversial, still offer an aesthetic […]
23 April 2012
Emily Sack Offers Her Pick Of The Best Current Art Exhibitions In The Cork Street Area Cork Street is a thriving art centre in the middle of Mayfair. Innumerable galleries stand alongside exquisite luxury shops and around the bustling swarms shuffling down Oxford and Regent Streets. And the April exhibitions are well worth braving tourists […]
19 April 2012
Thomas Keane asks just how good is Ron Mueck really? Pretty good, actually! An exhibition of hyper-realist sculptor Ron Mueck is well-timed. Emerging in the mid-1990s under the patronage of Charles Saatchi – at that time when it was Saatchi’s prerogative to make lists of What’s-Hot-and-What’s-Not – Mueck is to all intents and purpose […]
17 April 2012
Jack Castle reviews the current Haunch of Venison exhibition How glamorous the art world is! “100 Billion Suns” was first seen at the July 2011 Venice Biennale, and you probably weren’t there. I certainly wasn’t, and I’m quite miffed about it. I’m miffed about it in the same way that I am when I hear […]
2 April 2012
Tate Modern retrospective anticipates 2m visitors ‘We have more press here at the Damien Hirst press view, than there were people at the premier of Harry Potter’, Director of Tate Modern, Chris Dercon gleefully announced this morning. And, if the artworld really is the new Hollywood (as those in the know say that it is), […]
28 March 2012
Latest Reviews of exhibitions in the Vyner Street area By Alice Lubbock Vyner Street. For the past few years it has been the place to experience the forward-looking London art scene. And it is still gathering speed, with galleries opening up in every available space on and around this not particularly long cobbled street just off the […]
28 March 2012
With the eyes of the world upon us for London 2012, the V&A celebrates all things British 2012 is Britain’s year. With the eyes of the world upon the capital this Summer, it is perhaps the great chance of 21st Century to showcase and celebrate this nation’s vibrant cultural identity along with its achievements, […]
27 March 2012
Gillian Wearing finally gets the major survey exhibition she deserves It was long ago that Gillian Wearing won the Turner Prize (1997). And a major survey of her work – like the exhibition opening this week at the Whitechapel Gallery – is equally long overdue. Having arrived, this exhibition demonstrates the enduring concern of the […]
24 March 2012
Alice Lubbock provides the lowdown on this year’s smorgasbord of screenprints and oddball characters Somerset House is the unlikely host of an even unlikelier sort of fair – one exclusively selling graphic and illustrative print work. Visitors normally expecting to see a Monet painting or a Van Gogh portrait over in the Courthauld Institute, can […]
20 March 2012
Reviews of current exhibitions in the Hoxton area By Beatrix-Blaise Jacot It’s a beautiful day; and what’s more glorious to do on a beautiful day than walk through orchards of galleries. And with Spring leaping upon us, the galleries of Hoxton have certainly blossomed (stop me when I start to get corny), with the apples […]
16 March 2012
Latest Reviews of exhibitions in the Cork Street Area By Matilda Lawrence-Jubb The Cork Street area is, as ever, alive with art, with many new exhibitions opening this March to stir creative minds. Galleries closely dot the surrounding area, and there really is something to fit everyone’s tastes. Head first to the new add-on to […]
16 March 2012
We step behind the veil of secrecy to discover Artangel’s latest commission, exploring experiences of gay prisoners Artangel commissions are getting harder and harder to review for fear of giving too much away. Ryan Gander’s Locked Room Scenario, for example – an empty warehouse in which unsuspecting viewers suddenly found themselves alone and drifting, wondering […]
13 March 2012
Astrid Svangren: A Longing For The Bestowed… @ Maria Stenfors – REVIEW Astrid Svangren presents seven works in her mouthful of an exhibition at Maria Stenfors, extravagantly entitled; ‘A longing for the bestowed, towards or through it, crushed, absolutely non-existent, flickering uncontrollably, to be able to move again, as if the sun turned pain gold’. […]
12 March 2012
Santo Tolone: Three Times Once @ Limoncello – REVIEW In Three Times Once, Limoncello presents not only the first solo UK show of Italian artist Santo Tolone, but also the gallery’s last exhibition at its current Hoxton location, before the scheduled Haggeston scale-up. Newly partitioned, the space has been divided into three, with each unit […]
8 March 2012
Thomas Ruff: ma.r.s. and nudes @ Gagosian Gallery – REVIEW The two exhibitions at the London Gagosian galleries consist entirely of photographs. But to say that Thomsas Ruff is a photographer seems disingenuous, as the original images for the works are in fact found objects appropriated by the artist for a new purpose and given […]
8 March 2012
Gilbert & George: London Pictures @ White Cube – REVIEW This week White Cube bedecks the world with the largest series ever made by iconic artist duo Gilbert & George – London Pictures. These new works are composed of 3,712 tabloid headline posters, collated and sorted according subject so as to create 292 pieces – […]
6 March 2012
On The Edgware Road @ Serpentine Gallery – REVIEW This exhibition is the visual manifestation of work conducted under the aegis of the Edgware Road Project over the past three years – an effort to bring about collaborations between artists and local constituents, with its dazzlingly diverse output testifying to its huge value as an […]
5 March 2012
Lines of Thought @ Parasol Unit – REVIEW ‘Lines of Thought’ is the current exhibition at Parasol Unit (that beautiful space in Angel with brick walls and high ceilings), and presents an ensemble of work from 15 contemporary artists, from the 1960s to the present, each of whom use line in innovative and imaginative ways. […]
2 March 2012
Weighted Words @ Zabludowicz Collection – REVIEW I have always been wary about the use of words in art. This philosophy follows the logic that art should be somehow supra-linguistic – that it should speak for itself within its intrinsic configuration, and that, if it needs words to elucidate its meaning, it must be failing […]
28 February 2012
Beatrix-Blaise Jacot takes a trip to Uptown 57th street, and gives the lowdown on what’s hot right now… A recent visit to New York and things are, as ever, very exciting. Creation is everywhere – from the high fashion of mid-town Manhattan to the painfully hip everyday life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn – and New York […]
27 February 2012
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan @ Tate Modern – REVIEW Amid the flurry of spectacular publicity for the psychedelic hyped-up hyper show that is the Yayoi Kusama retrospective, Tate Modern is announcing, rather quietly, the opening of another equally major exhibition, of the work of Alighiero Boetti. Boetti is strangely unheard of, particularly in this country; […]