The Design Museum’s 7th annual Designers in Residence programme is a platform to celebrate new and emerging designers at an early stage in their career. The 2014 selected designers will spend four months responding to the theme of ‘disruption’, with...
Frieze New York launch their 2014 edition, on Randall's Island Park, Manhattan next week from May 9 to 12. This will be the third outing for the fair founded by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover in London in 2003. The fair will feature over 190 of the...
The V&A will host the definitive retrospective exhibition of the work of master photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) this autumn. Horst was one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. In his illustrious 60-year career, German-born Horst worked...
Alan Davie the seminal Scottish painter and printmaker has died aged 93. Born in Grangemouth, near Falkirk on 28 September 1920, the son of a schoolmaster and amateur artist who him to draw from childhood. He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1938 to...
On the every spinning international carousel which we call the art industry all eyes are about to turn to Berlin and Cologne for a month of non stop art action. Art Cologne's 48th edition, 10th - 13th April is the world's oldest art fair for modern and contemporary...
I had the privilege of viewing this year’s Whitney Biennial with Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and artist Barbara Nessim, who had a one person show at the V&A a year ago. We went there informed by a...
In her fourth decade as one of America’s most innovative and influential photographers, Laurie Simmons says her current New York show “Kigurumi, Dollers and How We see” examines work that is “finally comfortable in a human scale...
The Frieze Projects program of specially commissioned artworks to be realized at Frieze New York 2014 has been announced. The program for 2014 is curated by Cecilia Alemani and includes seven newly commissioned projects. Frieze New York is located in the unique...
This week official statistics were published by the DCMS revealing that the UK’s creative industries are now worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy. This was a growth of almost 10% in 2012, outperforming all other sectors of UK industry and...