
Sam Jacob’s Against Nature: New Wizardry with Ancient Stones and Landscape
In Against Nature, the architect Sam Jacob presents altered images of prehistoric monuments and landscapes, plus a chandelier and a bean bag.
In Against Nature, the architect Sam Jacob presents altered images of prehistoric monuments and landscapes, plus a chandelier and a bean bag.
The dark canvases in the show Illuminations have such an extraordinary clarity, it’s as if a camera had been taken into someone’s dreams.
Amos Rex, a surrealistic and mainly subterranean art complex, has just opened in Helsinki, with a immersive multimedia headline show by Japanese digital collective teamLab. But that’s not all that is pushing Helsinki on to the international art map
After a two-year shutdown for a serious makeover, the Hayward Gallery needed to come back big. The architects delivered, and so does the show that opened this week (until 22 April)— an epic retrospective of Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gursky.
Artists Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart take on Punch and Judy in Blackpool with a bizarre, sinister show at the Grundy
Antwerp’s modern art museum M HKA has had a makeover by top Belgium designers. It’s also staging some powerful shows… and has some big ambitions.
Mermaids in Warsaw? Hold on – the Polish capital is 300 km inland. And yet the star of its coat of arms is a mermaid… Perhaps she swam in from the Baltic Sea, up the Vistula river, lugging her sword and shield?
Soho was London’s daring and dirty soul, the place for free spirits to dispel the drab world beyond it, drink, or even dip into sex and sleaze.
You too would have a curious look if you were standing by a moose head bloodying the kitchen floor.
Forget for a moment Zaha Hadid the architect or designer. This show presents the case that she was a major visual artist in her own right.
You don’t think of William Eggleston as a portrait photographer. He is known for his colour shots of the everyday American South in the 60s and 70s – slow-time smalltown scenes with nothing in particular happening, buildings and signage, fields beyond the roadside. But..
It’s a she-elephant, the Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas confides to your correspondent from behind sunglasses.
He’s not a man who seeks media attention but he’s talking about the 3-tonne sculpture that presents its backside to you on entering his solo show..
Image:Psychedelic East I, 1990 © 2011 Rainer Fetting Against a yellow background with Berlin’s iconic TV Tower, a blonde in… Read More
I am a Fantasy is billed as a post-feminist show, but what exactly is Post-Feminism ? Correspondence courses for the brutish? Equality in the Royal Mail ? Can art shed any light on it ? Enter curator Beverley Knowles
Time for action! The third Kinetica Art Fair is on, and it’ s crammed with hundreds of kinetic, cybernetic, electronic and light works. It’ s good to start with a laugh and right by the entrance is a wall of 200 green EXIT signs. It’ s by Celille Colle and Ralf Nuhn and called Exit-Wall…….
It may not have the artworld glitz of Frieze, but the twenty-third London Art Fair is a whopper and it’s getting hipper. Not so long ago, it filled what had once been the Royal Agricultural Hall (built 1861) with galleries catering to the affluent collector, a sort of Waitrose of art.
It’s pretty difficult to make the city that never sleeps go to sleep, but German photographer Christopher Thomas manages it. He does it by capturing places when nobody is around, and he uses a large-format camera.
It’ s mind-expanding- a total trip into the history and culture of recreational drugs. It kicks off with a great display cabinet of drug delivery mechanisms, from a 300 year-old wooden ‘ fetish pipe’ and to a Starbucks coffee cup and a pack of 20 B& H.