The Best Exhibitions Of 2016 – Chosen By Paul Black
Paul Black chooses his best exhibitions of 2016 and delves deeper than the blockbusters and often further afield from London.
20 December 2016
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Jimmy Cauty Delivers A Post-Brexit, Post-Trump Disaster-Scape. Merry Christmas
A shipping container covered in graffiti sits among the dreaming spires of Oxford, and my partner hears a rather haughty voice remark ‘…Well I don’t think it’s appropriate for the setting of the university, …and not very Christmassy!’,
5 December 2016
Modern Art Oxford, The Vanished Reality: Temporal, Sociological, And Cultural Locations
Modern Art Oxford presents its final exhibition in a series of shows celebrating the Gallery’s 50th anniversary; concluding its KALEIDOSCOPE series with ‘The Vanished Reality’. This multi-generational exhibition presents work by Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Haacke, Iman Issa, Darcy Lange, Louise Lawler, Maria Loboda, Kerry James Marshall, Katja Novitskova, and Hardeep Pandhal.
17 November 2016
Hepworth Prize For Sculpture: Conceptual, Kinetic, Buoyant And Poetic
Finally, the UK has a sculpture prize – The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture – at The Hepworth, Wakefield. The prize has been created to celebrate the Gallery’s 5th anniversary and is named after one of the country’s most celebrated sculptors: Barbara Hepworth.
25 October 2016
JMW Turner And John Akomfrah: Ocean Drama At Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is presenting the exhibition ‘JMW Turner: Adventures in Colour’; and in association with the great British painter’s reflections on light, colour, and the sea, contemporary British artist John Akomfrah OBE presents his installation: the video triptych ‘Vertigo Sea’.
12 October 2016
Hercules Segers And Frans Post: A Very Contemporary Golden Age At Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam is currently presenting a particularly experimental and mysterious artist from the Dutch Golden Age: Hercules Segers. This… Read More
10 October 2016
Mirren Kessling: Performative Reflections Of Identity At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting the final exhibition from Platform 2016, created to support the work of up &… Read More
19 September 2016
Marina Abramovic, Richard Long, And Dorothy Cross At Modern Art Oxford
‘It’s Me to the World’ is Modern Art Oxford’s fourth exhibition and iteration of KALEIDOSCOPE, a celebration of 50 years… Read More
25 August 2016
Photo Feature: Richard Long Walking A Labyrinth At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is soon to unveil its fourth exhibition ‘It’s Me to the World’ in KALEIDOSCOPE, a celebration of… Read More
13 August 2016
Maria Lassnig: Baconian Inevitability Lingers At Tate Liverpool
Artlyst has travelled to Tate Liverpool which is currently presenting the first UK retrospective of late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig… Read More
24 June 2016
The Ruskin School Of Art Degree Show 2016: The Highlights
Artlyst has returned to the Ruskin School of Art, for the BFA and MFA exhibitions 2016, after investigating the school’s… Read More
20 June 2016
Photo Feature: Louise Nevelson, Iconic Groundbreaking Sculptures At Pace London
Pace London is currently presenting an exhibition of works by Louise Nevelson, surveying the artist’s practice from the mid-1950s until… Read More
17 June 2016
The Slade School Of Art Postgraduate Degree Show 2016: The Highlights
Artlyst has attended The Slade School Of Art MA MFA PhD Degree Show 2016 to investigate the fresh and exciting… Read More
17 June 2016
Photo Feature: Mystics And Rationalists At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is currently marking 50 years as an internationally acclaimed powerhouse of contemporary visual culture. Celebrating the role… Read More
13 June 2016
Dorothy Cross: Mystics, Rationalists, And Temporal Ponderings At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting works by Cork-born artist Dorothy Cross, as part of KALEIDOSCOPE: Mystics and Rationalists, the… Read More
7 June 2016
The Ruskin School Of Art Preliminaries Exhibition 2016: The Highlights
Artlyst has attended the Ruskin Preliminaries 2016 to investigate the burgeoning talent that the prestigious Oxford art school may unleash… Read More
7 June 2016
Andy Warhol: ‘Brand-Warhol’, Celebrity Friends And Soup Cans At Halcyon Gallery
Halcyon Gallery is currently presenting its first exhibition devoted entirely to the works of Andy Warhol. The show has over… Read More
23 May 2016
Martine Syms: Inherited Images, Inherited Identities At ICA London
The ICA London’s Upper Gallery is currently presenting the exhibition ‘Fact & Trouble’ by American artist Martine Syms, exploring the… Read More
19 May 2016
Guan Xiao: The Victor’s Privilege – Rewriting History At The ICA London
The ICA London is currently presenting the work of Chinese artist Guan Xiao. The artist employs mainly sculpture and video,… Read More
16 May 2016
Photo Feature: Dense Mesh: Exploring The Global Technological Apparatus At Carroll/Fletcher
Carroll/Fletcher is currently presenting ‘Dense Mesh’, a group exhibition of seven artists exploring technological progression in society via a collective… Read More
13 May 2016
Keith Coventry: A Disposable Modernist Dystopia At Pace Gallery London
Pace London is currently presenting White Black Gold, an exhibition of new works by London-based artist Keith Coventry. The artist… Read More
11 May 2016
Thomson & Craighead: Orwellian Party Paranoia At Carroll/Fletcher
Carroll/Fletcher is currently presenting Thomson & Craighead in ‘Party Booby Trap’, the art duo’s second exhibition with the gallery, filling… Read More
9 May 2016
Francis Bacon: Alice Herrick And Clive Jennings Discuss The Ravarino Drawings
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings purportedly by the great British painter Francis Bacon, lent… Read More
5 May 2016
Barry Flanagan: The Absurdist Subversion Of Form At Waddington Custot Galleries
Waddington Custot Galleries is currently presenting the maverick Clement Greenberg-chewing Barry Flanagan in ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’. The show is a… Read More
4 May 2016
Bosco Sodi: The Alchemist Of Aesthetics At Blain|Southern London
Yūgen is Blain|Southern’s first exhibition by artist Bosco Sodi, and takes its title from a multi-layered Japanese concept, describing the… Read More
25 April 2016
Darren Coffield And Francis Bacon: Magicians of Matter And Light
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings by Francis Bacon and new paintings by Darren Coffield…. Read More
23 April 2016
Richard Prince: The Joke Is In The ‘Re-telling’ At Sadie Coles HQ
Sadie Coles HQ is currently presenting an oeuvre of twelve works by the great American appropriation artist Richard Prince. ‘Cartoon… Read More
21 April 2016
Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono, David Maljkovic – Among Artists At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford presents the second exhibition in KALEIDOSCOPE, the Gallery’s year-long programme of unfolding exhibitions to celebrate their 50th… Read More
19 April 2016
Warrior Artists At OVADA: Paul Black Reviews The Collective’s Latest Work
Warrior Studios Collective consists of 12 artists – founded in the late 1980s in a railway arch in South London… Read More
12 April 2016
Eileen Cooper, Wang Guangle, Eduardo Chillida: Paul Black’s West End Review
Wang Guangle: Yellow – Pace Gallery London – until 16 Apr 2016 Image: Wang Guangle, Yellow, installation view, Pace Gallery… Read More
5 April 2016
Yinka Shonibare: End Of Empire, Conflict, And Dominion At Turner Contemporary
Artlyst travelled to sunny Margate and Turner Contemporary’s Sunley Gallery to view two major works by leading contemporary artist Yinka… Read More
31 March 2016
A Restoration: Elizabeth Price And Paul Black In Conversation
Paul Black has visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to meet Turner Prize, and 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award winner… Read More
22 March 2016