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.
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teamLab at the new Amos Rex… plus three other reasons to rush to Helsinki
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
Continue Reading...Behind and Beyond Christo’s London Mastaba
It may be the most spectacular art object in London this year, but what is Christo’s London Mastaba about?
Continue Reading...Andreas Gursky: Getting the Big Picture
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.
Continue Reading...Bill Fontana transcends Lisbon’s vast 25th of April Bridge
It’s a year since MAAT opened its dazzling curvaceous gallery on the banks of the Tagus river, simultaneously bringing wow-factor to Lisbon’s architecture and art scene.
Continue Reading...Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock take on Mr Punch: Bizarre Babies and Sinister Signs in Blackpool
Artists Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart take on Punch and Judy in Blackpool with a bizarre, sinister show at the Grundy
Continue Reading...Antwerp’s Modern Art Museum Just Got Better
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.
Continue Reading...Coming Ashore in Warsaw … Mermaids at the Museum on the Vistula
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?
Continue Reading...Finding the Meaning of Peter Märkli
How much are architects visual artists? Recently, we have seen the Serpentine present Zaha Hadid as a great painter. Swiss architect Peter Märkli is not as well known, but he has an almost cult following in architec-tural circles – and his sketches sell internationally, sometimes to buyers who don’t even know he’s an archi-tect.
Continue Reading...Anne Pigalle Celebrates the Soho of Dreams and Desires – Les P’tites Femmes de Soho
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.
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