The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January. Once it was the most happening art fair in London, but it’s had its off years in...
Looking forward to the art year ahead of us – 2019 – there are certain things one notices immediately, in the announcements so far made by various official and semi-official institutions based here in Britain and more specifically in plans announced by galleries here...
I confess straight away that I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to spend on this exhibition. It has a split location, the new building of the South London gallery being located across the main road. Most people will do as I did, and encounter the room in...
Arts Council England has published the 2017/18 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report which shows that in the last year, 42 cases – spanning a vast range of works of art and other cultural objects worth £27 million - were accepted for the nation...
This year's Turner Prize winner 2018 has been awarded to Charlotte Prodger a Glasgow-based video artist whose work deals with identity and place. She was nominated for her solo exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall. Prodger, who won the 2017 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award used...
Tereza Buskova has been running an art club with the students at Chad Vale Primary since November 2017, and the results are strong and bristling with positive energy. As artist in residence, she has been delivering weekly after-school sessions in which the children...
The iconic British artist Michael Craig-Martin will present an exhibition of painting, sculpture and prints at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, opening 29 January 2019. This will be the second annual exhibition at Windsor presented in collaboration with...
Before I go any further, let me note that, on the very day this iteration of the annual Turner Prize exhibition was revealed to the press, a review in the Evening Standard hailed it as “thrilling”. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson was quoted as saying: “The...
At the moment the London art scene is not rich in bright young artists, elbowing their elders aside, eager to make themselves visible. In this, it offers a marked contrast to the 1990s, when the people whom we immediately labelled YBAs – Young – or Younger – British...