'Soft Serve' is the title of American artist Vanessa Prager's first London solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde. The artist dishes up a series of sculptural portraits and figures as colourful, dripping, melting realities, oozing with thick sculptural paint. Pushing the...
Art Below ‘Choose Your Hero’ is a group exhibition curated by Ben Moore at the communal Riverside studio at Re:Centre, Hammersmith. Twelve London based artists have been given the chance to step out of their traditional modes of working and enter a reflective space to...
Nicola Green explores Recent And Contemporary Religious Leaders At St Martin-in-the-Fields in Encounter an exhibition of the world’s most significant recent and contemporary religious leaders, this autumn at St Martin-in-the-Fields. For the past decade, artist Nicola...
I've just returned from Riga the capital of Latvia in the Baltic region and I'm still reeling from the energy that this small dedicated artist community has to offer. Out--lands Survival Kit 10.0 has been running for ten years and has joined forces with The Latvian...
On the 16th September, the Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with the launch of an additional event – the Art Cycle Basket Fair. The Art Cycle Basket Fair will run in an adjacent space to the main fair and involve artists bringing everything they...
A new exhibition featuring iconic naked images of some of the Twentieth Century’s most famous celebrities, thinkers and artists opens at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery, this autumn (27 October – 3 March 2019). Exposed: The Naked Portrait reveals over eighty people -...
Nobody, I think, could be keener than I am to see women obtain more recognition for their creative contribution to the visual arts. I actually have track record where this topic is concerned. If you want a major figure in the history of feminist art, then you needn’t...
Martin Puryear has been selected to represent the US at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Madison Square Park Conservancy NY will oversee the presentation. Brooke Kamin Rapaport senior curator, said, "This is the first time the pavilion has been organised by a public art body...
At a time when London’s big art museums are going all out to be populist, they also seem to be witnessing a fairly general fall in attendances. The National Portrait Gallery has been particularly hard hit: attendances were down from over 2 million in 2015 to 1.2...