14 October 2013 • VC Maurer
As part of the Hayward Touring Exibition, ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’ takes a personal look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture, and its persisting influence on our lives today. The exhibition combines contemporary music, film and photography with a vast range of 19th century images and objects.
12 October 2013 • VC Maurer
See beautiful Aboriginal this weekend at STRARTA art Fair 2013
2 October 2013 • VC Maurer
“I think the driving force behind creativity is the promise of eventual demise, and it is in the face of this that we keep creating.”
27 September 2013 • VC Maurer
It’s historical, yet inviting, unique yet accomadting. From cups of tea to a fancy cocktail, allow the newly refurbished walls of the Keeper’s house of the RA to help compliment your travels to central London. Beginning this Monday the 30th of September, the Keeper’s house of the Royal Academy invites all friends and art lovers of the public to come enjoy the ambiance and scenery of this newly renovated historical cornerstone.
24 September 2013 • VC Maurer
While keeping in spirit with the upcoming Halloween season this exhibition will be showcasing gripping photographic works from Pakistani artist Sana Khan. Alongside her dark yet playful portrayals, American artist Cybil Scott’s abstract collages will also be featured . Existing as contemplative passerby’s oscillating between parallel universes where the realms of fact and fiction and the technological and physical are consistently blurred, it is this grappling with the ephemeral nature of life which fuels both of these skilled artist’s unique interpretations.
23 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Black Beauty is the first major solo exhibition in the UK by American artist Lutz Bacher. Occupying an important position in contemporary art practice, Lutz Bacher’s work is receiving increasing levels of international recognition. Black Beauty provides a unique opportunity to see Bacher’s new works made specifically for the ICA together with recent work for the first time in London.
20 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Check out cool video where this dynamic duo is shown reading artistic laws they wrote in 1969 when they considered themselves to be ‘baby artists’. Now 44 years later, these laws prove to be timeless and still incredibly relevant to the contemporary art world.
20 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Yet another example of how the virtual and physical realms are becoming more intertwined on a diurnal basis! Now, with the help of Bloomberg Connects, Tate’s collection will be used to stimulate a conversation between Tate and its visitors by using the Bloomberg-supported digital space as a fresh canvas for creativity. With over 75 digital screens and corresponding digital drawing bars, visitors will become participants and co-creators, exchanging ideas, images and experiences.
19 September 2013 • VC Maurer
As part of his ongoing project, H/U/M/A/N/M/A/C/H/I/N/E, Takahito explores the implications of technology on consciousness and the human body; the change in the relationship between man and machine over time, and the point at which they blur and shape one another. Within his work, Takahito inhabits the role of creator, breeding and presenting his Cyborg tribe playing on the notion of authentic and fantasy, whilst juxtaposing archaic and futuristic.
19 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Working across video, drawing and installation, New york based artist Nick Reph’s solo show will feature an entirely new body of work which isRelph’s first major solo exhibition in a public institution following his ten-year collaboration with Oliver Payne (1999–2009).
15 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Only a title so erroneous and nonsensical could serve to unite a new generation of international artists. Drawing on the intensive research, dialogues, and interactions that have characterised their MA studies, 38 graduate students will present their work in three locations across Kingston University’s Knight’s Park Campus.
14 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Indiana Bones, as he has been notoriously termed has recently made some fascinating underground discoveries pertaining to some of the most heroic catholic saints around the globe- we are not crazy religious or anything here at FAD, but these are def some cool pics worth checking out
12 September 2013 • VC Maurer
The extensive and fascinating archive material will shed new light on the way the artist worked and documented her own artistic practice. Featuring super-8 films, photographs, slides, drawings, prints, objects and sculptures, Ana Mendieta: Traces will not only follow a chronology, but will look at the artist’s entire oeuvre through the lens of her own time, bringing it afresh to the beginning of the 21st century.
10 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Featuring works by artist Andy Holden and other collaborative projects with other founding MI!MS artists: John Blamey, Roger Illingworth, James Macdowell and Johnny Parry, “MI!MS is about the willingness to be lied to and the will to believe! It’s about the intense sadness of our unrealistic dreams, and the intense joy of our desire for them.”
9 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Charles Mayton, Kathrin Sonntag, and Erika Vogt’s works are subtle meditations on the production, reception, and consumption of artworks, taking these distinct temporal events and folding them upon one another.
7 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Melgaard’s starkly anti-aesthetic and anti-formalist art offers a new, more complicated, last-chance idea of beauty, one always on the precipice of breakdown and shame. In a crescendo of paint, dolls and crystals, at Gavin Brown’s enterprise Melgaard will present his most ambitious, tragic and unwieldy exhibition to date – Pink never felt so dismal.
6 September 2013 • VC Maurer
Well known for his music videos for the likes of REM, Elliott Smith, a doc on Fugazi, Jem Cohen is also much revered for his experimental films and observational features, such as Chain. ‘Museum Hours’ has been released only in select UK cinemas and today 6th of September, you can check it for only 6 pounds @ the National Gallery.
4 September 2013 • VC Maurer
What could be better than two great openings along the quaint canals of Hackney Wick!? From killer art @ Stour Space and Arbeit Gallery to amazing pints and pizza @Crate Brewery, take a trip down the graffitied streets of the wick that is Hackney and check out whats good for ya!
14 August 2013 • VC Maurer
What does Grafiiti mean to you? For Aroe, street art simply means, “taking a derelict building that maybe once meant nothing to anybody now means something to somebody”
13 August 2013 • VC Maurer
Performa, the New York-based organization and international biennial dedicated to live performance across the disciplines, announces select Performa Commissions and Consortium projects for Performa 13, celebrating the biennial’s fifth edition to take place November 1 – 24, 2013 at more than 60 venues across New York City.
12 August 2013 • VC Maurer
There is something so alluring about a fantastically made hoagie- especially one that you can’t eat! Artists Alex Da Corte and Borna Sammak leads observers to question whether or not the OKO’s many-layered storefront space is a gallery or some sort of deli?
8 August 2013 • VC Maurer
Nam June Paik, considered the father of visual art, is still going strong! Curated by the Nam June Paik Art Center and Talbot Rice Gallery , be sure to catch this evolutionary boundary breaker and prophetic thinker who linked art and technology, music and visual art, electronics and the humanities from the 9th of August until the 19th of October
5 August 2013 • VC Maurer
Legend Graffiti artist Aroe, has put together a cutting edge graffiti project called ‘Bomb the Box’. This collaboration brings together some of the world’s most established and emerging graffiti artists live every Sunday until the 8th of September where you can witness the artists sprayin’ it up with live dj’s and a wicked scene @Boxpark in Shoreditch
5 August 2013 • VC Maurer
From heavyweight American sculptors like Daniel Chester French, to lesser-knowns like Selma Hortense Burke, thanks to the Smithsonian Institution, Hyperallergic has access to it all. You see the worn artist tools, the random curiosities the array of complete and in-process work. And even if you don’t know their art, there’s a lot about an artist embedded in their studio. Check it out!
