FACT Liverpool: Erika Beckman’s film, ‘Cinderella’ created in 1986 is a strange slip of time. I was quite intrigued by the film. At first, you are taken back to the 80s in terms of neon post-punk video effects and those hairstyles and the makeup. It could almost be a...
Francis Bacon's $20-30m 'Screaming Pope' Study for a Head is to go under the hammer at Sotheby's, in May. It is one of the most iconic works by the artist remaining in private hands and one of the finest examples of the six portrait heads completed by Bacon in 1952....
Shows To See: Up Now in London: Paul Carey-Kent gives us his focus on the London galleries and what to see for April 2019. As a writer and curator Paul sets out a monthly rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London now. He currently writes freelance...
Indian women artists working on walls, Ruchi Shah and Poornima Sukumar are changing their country, working in multiple cities in public and private spaces. Shah works with words and small businesses to transform foyers and workspaces. Sukumar is a muralist/activist....
The Freelands Foundation is presenting Fault Lines, a group exhibition curated by Edward Ball, Freelands Artist Programme Curator. The show brings together four UK-based artists working in the realm of sculpture; Jonathan Baldock, Alice Channer, Angela de la Cruz and...
The London exhibition scene is currently so enamoured with dead avant-gardists that it was a pleasure to see work by the well-established American artist David Salle (b. 1954) who is still with us. Even more of a (guilty) pleasure because the artist concerned is...
At the moment Tate Modern offers retrospective exhibitions of three very different artists – Bonnard (French), Franz West (Austrian) and Dorothea Tanning (American). They have just one thing in common: all of them are dead. It is as if Tate is terrified to offer this...
The fourth edition of ArtBAB has closed with a unanimous thumbs-up from both the Artists and exhibiting Galleries. The fair organised by Kaneka Subberwal was the highlight of the Bahraini art calendar. Attendance at ArtBAB, held in the Bahrain International Exhibition...
The 58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition held at the Giardini and Arsenale from Saturday 11 May until Sunday 24 November 2019 will be titled May You Live In Interesting Times. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of Hayward Gallery in London since 2006, and...