Art Basel Miami Beach 2022- 7 artworks from 7 booths.
As Mera Rubell stated: “Sun and fun became a cultural destination” Art Basel Miami Beach celebrated its 20th anniversary in December 2022.
Art Reviews
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions previewed by FAD magazine.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in December
Fire, ears, eating, deserts and tiny artworks.
Basquiat: King Pleasure© in New York
Basquiat’s legacy and influence are reexamined by those that knew him best in an intimate exhibition Jean Michel Basquiat King Pleasure© at Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh Building in New York which is open through January 1st 2023
Nebojša Yamasaki Vulkelic, Walking Within A Slow Future
Nebojša Yamasaki Vulkelic’s Walking Within A Slow Future (Galerija Doma Omladine Beograda, November 15-17, 2022)is a touching exhibition. Curated by Lav Mrenovic, the show brings together a series of recent drawings, with an ambient soundtrack and poem.
Creating a Path to Freedom: A Review of Koestler Arts’ Annual Award Exhibition curated by Ai Weiwei on show at The Southbank Centre
Koestler Arts runs an art prize with a National Exhibition at The Southbank Centre showing the work of prisoners, ex-offenders, secure patients and Immigration Centre Detainees. This year, the exhibition was curated by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei and titled Freedom
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see this Winter
Carnival, cockroaches, sharks, numbers and shipwrecks.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in late November
Prisoners, surveillance, gorillas, a giant hand and floor to ceiling art.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Winter
Walking, optical illusions, tobacco, small art and Lucian Freud.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in November
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in November. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
Cudelice Brazelton IV, Tensors
“You humming.” “Huh?” Ksh-ksh-ksh ksh-ksh-ksh ksh-ksh-ksh, dum-da-du
Anne Imhof, Avatar II
Part gallery, part morgue, part locker room, part horror maze, Imhof’s current show, Avatar II leads us through feelings of tension, uneasiness, frustration and paranoia.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in Mayfair this November
Monsters, repetition, mining, fashion and machine art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Workplace
Workplace has an unusual history and positioning: it was founded in Gateshead – close to the Baltic Centre – in 2005 by Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this Autumn
Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London chosen by the @londonartcritic each one comes with a concise review
8 to see at Paris+ Art Basel
8 to see at Paris+ Art Basel, after a busy week in London with Frieze, Frieze Masters, 1-54 and The… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Newport Street Gallery
Say what you will about Damien Hirst’s cash cow modes of production, he loves art and ploughs a good proportion of his gains back into acquiring and showing it at his purpose-built gallery halfway between Waterloo and Vauxhall.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this October
Old Masters. winners, a black dog, folded paper and stairs to nowhere.
FRIEZE 2022: THE ARTISTS’ CHOICES
For every previous London edition of Frieze, I have looked around and reported on what interested me. This year I couldn’t be there due to a run-in with sepsis and bowel and liver cancer.
8 Beautiful & cool artworks Frieze London 2022
I thankfully avoided Wednesday at Frieze London apparently totally mobbed 30 min wait to get in – couldn’t see the art, couldn’t get a meal, queues for everything – I went Thursday lovely, calm, and plenty of time to look to chat to eat maybe Thursday is the new Wednesday?
Frieze Masters Top 11 Exhibits
Frieze Masters, the younger yet more genteel sibling of the bigger, brasher Frieze Art Fair, is hosting a finely curated selection of art spanning a period of six millennia.
Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London during Frieze Week
Lockers, tables, colonialism, history and darkness during Frieze Week
FAD’s Top Six For Frieze Week 2022
So it all kicks off next week – several great parties on Monday so hopefully see you at one of them – below is a snapshot/random selection of interesting, fun and v good exhibitions you should visit during Frieze week
Slither into the ‘Wet And Messy’ world of Brittany Shepherd at MAMOTH
High Heels on the brink of ruin squelch precariously through muddy fields. A man conceals his entire face, almost suffocating in a painfully tight hooded raincoat. A woman scrapes her nails lovingly through a bog as if it were her lover’s hair. A puffy, taffeta prom dress is regretfully trashed beyond repair. A stiletto inexplicably burns continuously in an unwelcoming flame.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Seventeen
I’ve followed Seventeen closely since it was established in 2006 by former artist David Hoyland at 17 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch – retaining the name when it edged into Dalston by moving a mile up the road to the less snappily numbered block 270-276.