Emma Talbot Wins Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2020

Emma Talbot Wins Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2020

The Max Mara prize 2020 has been awarded to Emma Talbot. The award supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a major solo exhibition. Awarded in alternate years since 2005, it is the only visual art prize of its kind in the UK. As the winner Talbot...
ULAY: A Personal Reminiscence – Clare Henry

ULAY: A Personal Reminiscence – Clare Henry

ULAY, who died last week at 76, was tall, handsome, clever, charismatic. In the 1980s he was also half of the world’s golden couple of performance art Ulay & Abramovic.   I met him first sometime in the early 1980s, before Marina Abramovic’s career...
Among The Trees A Sense Of Loss – Edward Lucie-Smith

Among The Trees A Sense Of Loss – Edward Lucie-Smith

Among the Trees which just opened at the Hayward Gallery, is an ambitious exhibition that has all the best intentions, and somehow fails to make its point. Or, rather, it makes a point that is perhaps different from what the organisers intended. What it offers seems...