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Daido Moriyama And William Klein Two Monochrome Image Junkies – Review

So it’s another belter from Simon Baker whose appointment as Head of Photography for the Tate has proven to be a good choice. After...

Edmund de Waal Conceptions Of Space In A Non Digital World

Review – Edmund de Waal certainly has a lot going for him. A glance at his biography shows that he always has. He received...

Hollywood Costume Golden Age To Present V&A Museum – Review

Hollywood Costume, the V&A’s major autumn exhibition, is major indeed. This is the sort of blockbuster show that delivers what many museums only imagine...

Rothko Sugimoto Amplifying A Common Thrust Pace Gallery – Review

Because I’ve never attended the London or New York fashion week shows, I assume the opening of Pace gallery’s new London space was like...

Matthew Darbyshire Recreates The Wonderful World Of Mockintosh

Review – The Zabludowicz Collection has commissioned the artist Matthew Darbyshire to recreate T Rooms an installation originally exhibited at Tramway in Glasgow. This...

Bharti Kher’s Surreal World Of Cyborgs Bindis And White Elephants

Review – Bharti Kher’s is one of India’s best-known contemporary artists. Collections of Her work has attracted the attention of important collectors such as...

Jerwood Drawing Prize An Integral Fine Art Practice – Review

Drawing was once considered one of the cornerstones of Western art. The reason for this is simple: if art was to be accurate and...

Photography From The Sixties and Seventies Explored Barbican – Review

Although one could definitely make the case that there is too much work in this show, it is a noble attempt to bring a...

Liverpool Biennial Gathers Kudos On The International Art Circuit – Review

It’s difficult to know where to begin when discussing a show that includes 242 artists in 27 locations. Liverpool has given itself over to...

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz Rebirth of A Renaissance Masterpiece – Review

Deriving from rinascere, an Italian word meaning ‘to be reborn,’ it is fitting that the work of Dutch Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch is reborn...

City & Guilds of London MA Fine Arts Exhibition 2012- Review

In the postmodern world of art, tertiary institutions have increasingly ditched technical skills in favour of conceptual innovation. In London, art colleges that pride...

Sao Paulo Biennial Exclusive The Imminence of Poetics – Review

International Arts Corespondent Andrea Shortell Sends This ArtLyst Exclusive Report, From The Sao Paulo Frontline. São Paulo flourishes with cultural energy the weekend before...

Warhol Mauro At What Point Did The Irony Stop? – Review

A girl ironically goes into a Mayfair nightclub, the kind where attractive young women get in free, and the men pay £50 entry and...

New Face of Klimt Celebrated By Contemporary Artists – Review

A flash of colour and lingering pose adorn the walls of the Lazarides gallery near Tottenham Court Road. For a brief moment London is...

Brancolini Grimaldi Summer Show Reignites London Photography Scene – Review

London is getting better at showing Fine Art Photography. The number of galleries dedicated to the medium is negligible when compared to New York,...

Damian Ortega White Lines And Multiverse – Review

In an age of austerity, it has become increasingly rare for private galleries to make the space for art that is so unsellable, so...

Vyner Street Exhibition Reviews August 2012

Vyner Street has been receiving its share of adverse publicity lately, with some critics questioning whether this cultural enclave in Bethnal Green is now...

Zhang Huan Mind Over Matter And Self Control – Review

Zhang Huan (White Cube Bermondsey) is an interesting artist, with an impressively diverse range of art to his name. The artist was born in...

Andy Warhol Fame I Wanna Live Forever – Dulwich Review

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) lived a life of irreconcilable contradictions. He regularly went to church on Sunday, didn’t run up debts and didn’t do drugs. ...

Titian Given Contemporary Makeover In New National Gallery Exhibition

The most common way of seeing a Titian is as follows: you walk into a prestigious and/or 19th Century building, follow the signs to...

Fitzrovia Area Art Gallery Reviews August 2012

Fitzrovia has rapidly grown into one of London’s prime contemporary art hubs. June 2012 witnessed the launch of Fitzrovia Lates (http://www.fitzrovialates.co.uk). As part of the...

Another London: Images From A Wiser Innocent Time – Review

This is a show of unadulterated image-making from a simultaneously wiser and more innocent time. Full of the type of photography that turns people...

Anthony Gormley Inner And Outer Body Experiences – Review

Anthony Gormley’s work is interesting for a number of reasons. Not least, is that the conceptual foundations of his practice are rooted in eastern...

Mr Brainwash Breaking London The Agony And The Ecstasy

Review – It is not an easy feat for an emerging artist to make a splash in London, during the Olympics or at anytime...

London Photography Exhibition Round Up – July 2012

Tis the season of the group show, so it is refreshing when a gallery attempts to use this format to create a dynamic exhibition...

Hoxton Area Review – July 2012

Hoxton is one of East London’s most exciting art neighborhoods with well-established galleries like White Cube Hoxton Square, to small lesser-known spaces. Visitors to...

Fitzrovia Gallery and Exhibtions Reviews – July 2012

Fitzrovia has been receiving a great deal of attention recently, establishing itself as the next East London. Many of the galleries that are...

Goldsmiths Image And Communications MA MFA Degree Review

One can but admire the Goldsmiths approach to its art courses. By being prepared to allow students to develop autonomously, individually, this institution often...

Whitechapel Open Barometer For The Best Emerging Artistic Tends

Art institutions in Britain’s capital city like to jockey for the position of being the epicentre of creativity in London. It seems every exhibition...

Goldsmiths 2012 High Calibre MFA Degree Show Review

Last night saw the opening of the 2012 MFA degree show at Goldsmiths, an event that always creates an atmosphere of anticipation due to...

Royal College Of Art Degree Show 2012 Photography Review

Although it may not be as glamorous a location for its students, the expansion of the RCA to the environs of its old Sculpture...

LA Street Art Conquers London With Pop Up exhibition

LETTERS FROM AMERICA, a pop up exhibition, mounted by LA’s Corey Helford Gallery opened last night with the level of buzz needed to convince...