Growing Pastime Culture within America
19 June 2023 • Gaston La-Gaffe
Across the globe, there are millions of people engaging in their favourite hobbies as a means of relaxing and enhancing… Read More
Tag: culture
“Processing the past & digesting the future”, or how can the digestive system teach us to navigate our society, in the new show curated by Huma Kabakci
9 May 2023 • Irene Machetti
Badr El Jundi, Madrid, presents the new exhibition ‘Processing the Past & Digesting the Future‘ curated by Huma Kabakci. The… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tate Britain
15 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Britain opened as the National Gallery of British Art on the site of the former Millbank Prison in 1897, but soon became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate.
Material Conversations Mater x Robin James Sullivan
4 April 2022 • Maddie
Robin James Sullivan is “an Artist; Producer; a Writer; a Chef; a dreamer; an amateur experimental archaeologist; a mudslinger; a guide; a Queer man; a Performer, the hostess with the mostess. (Not exclusively)”.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in 2022
1 January 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see as we head into a new year. Each one comes with a… Read More
Unit London launches Platform, a digital space that engages with urgent socio-political issues
25 October 2020 • Irene Machetti
Unit London just launched Platform, an online exhibitions programme highlighting urgent socio-political issues. Participating artists create new works engaging with a political, cultural or social issue that they feel close to. In alignment with the core social principle of the programme, 10% of sales proceeds from each exhibition will benefit a charity nominated by the artist and/or curator.
Culture& announces Black Lives Matter Charter for the UK heritage sector
23 July 2020 • Mark Westall
Culture& have released a Black Lives Matter Charter for the UK heritage sector they have called on their partners and the wider arts and heritage sectors to make clear their position on Black Lives Matter by committing to make the following changes in order to decolonise their relationship with the UK Black community and their workforce, collections and programmes
10 Questions from Isolation… with Huma Kabakci
8 May 2020 • Irene Machetti
10 Questions from Isolation- This week’s guest is Huma Kabakci, independent Curator and Founding Director of Open Space. Kabakci completed an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, as well as a curatorial fellowship at the 2018 Liverpool Biennial
Hard Simplicity: Méïr Srebriansky ‘Age of Resin’ at 81 Leonard Gallery
15 April 2020 • Caira Moreira-Brown
The lastest online exhibition at the artist-run gallery, 81 Leonard Gallery features new works by Méïr Srebriansky. ‘Age of Resin’ is a survey of the artist’s work in a new medium.
Art Night Putting Walthamstow’s Art and Culture on the London Map
21 June 2019 • Staff
Art Night returns this year for it’s fourth run in Walthamstow and King’s Cross. This year differs to the last in that Walthamstow was awarded the first London Borough of Culture. The festival shall run on Saturday 22nd of June, starting around 7pm and finishing around 3am.
FOOD ART | an introduction
18 March 2019 • Irene Machetti
From next week, I will start a new column for FAD exploring the shared space between food and art. This article is an introduction to this research. Called FOOD ART, it will explore the intersections, collaborations, and engagements between the two cultural spheres.
Videogames are a remarkable artform that can help save UK culture
18 September 2017 • Mark Westall
Videogames speak culture with ever increasing fluency, but cultural policy doesn’t speak much videogame (yet)
Review: Folkestone triennial – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions
3 September 2017 • Syndicate
Antony Gormley sculptures lurk under the promenade, Richard Woods invades town with huts for second-homers, while Bob and Roberta Smith treats local kids to art lessons. An eye-catching battle is raging at the Kent seaside between rich and poor, social decay and civic pride
World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
16 August 2017 • Syndicate
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground
5 August 2017 • Syndicate
An exhibit by controversial artist Dana Schultz, accused of profiting from black pain, has led to anger, the latest in an increasingly long line of art world protests
How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching
2 August 2017 • Syndicate
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence
Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
27 July 2017 • Syndicate
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
24 July 2017 • Syndicate
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
REVIEW: Soul of a Nation – the extraordinary art of the black power era
16 July 2017 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
Civil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle
Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
13 July 2017 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
11 July 2017 • Syndicate
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
10 July 2017 • Mark Westall
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
How galleries became the best places to rave
4 July 2017 • Syndicate
Bad sound and indifferent crowds have traditionally made galleries dangerous places for live music, but a new breed of curators are changing the tune
Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna
27 June 2017 • Mark Westall
She put the shooting of her boyfriend on Facebook live. Now artist Luke Willis Thompson has turned Diamond Reynolds into a different kind of screen star
