James Richards The Banality Of The Vernacular

James Richards The Banality Of The Vernacular

Richards solo show at Chisenhale Gallery reveals the oh-so-grey void behind our vernacular visual landscapes   For his solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, ‘Not Blacking Out, Just Turning the Lights Off’, James Richards has created a new series of video works from...

Jacob Kassay Smoke And Mirrors

ICA’s Autumn exhibition of art-market-darling Jacob Kassay, his first in a public gallery.   Review – Jacob Kassay exploded onto the contemporary art scene with surprising force, when a piece priced at auction for $8,000 soared to $86,500. And then, when a...
SUNDAY Art Fair Living For The Weekend

SUNDAY Art Fair Living For The Weekend

After the success of its 2010 debut SUNDAY Art Fair is back to challenge the hegemony of the Sharp-Slotover Frieze machine. Frieze’s most dangerous rival, SUNDAY Art Fair has returned to Ambika P3, Baker Street’s 14,000 square foot, triple height warehouse, where last...

OMA On And On And Ever Onwards

Barbican Art Gallery opens its OMA/Progress architectural exhibition   Review – Architecture exhibitions are notoriously difficult, because the one thing they always have to miss out from the exhibit is the architecture itself: you can’t put a building in a...
Has Charles Saatchi Lost His Senses

Has Charles Saatchi Lost His Senses

‘New Sensations’ exhibition upstaged by ‘The Future Can Wait’, but both lack punch   Two schemes for emerging artists, both launched in 2007, have in this year joined forces to create a museum-scale survey of emerging art at B1, Victoria house in Bloomsbury...

Pavilion Of Art And Design The Real Masterpiece

  The Shock Of The Old Invades Berkeley Square   You’ve seen this year’s major exhibitions, now’s your chance to recreate them in your living room by buying your very own masterpiece! That’s right, the Pavilion of Art & Design has works for sale by all...