Mahmoud Khaled, Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it
iPhones have pretty good cameras. More than just rendering a subject in high-resolution, they can endow a sense of affective… Read More
Art Reviews
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions previewed by FAD magazine.
Sculpture Outside The City: Building Rural Artistic Community through Curation
MC3 Projects presented the second edition of The Occasionale, a summer arts festival spanning their beautiful rural grounds in East Sussex. Curated by Sarah Pager and Jaime Marie Davis
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London in August
Clouds of colour, women in windows, Edvard Munch, sinuous sculpture and aliens in virtual reality.
The inaugural CAN art fair in Ibiza embodied a hedonistic celebration of highly pigmented figuration.
As the airy CAN fairground reverbed with a spontaneous round of applause at cocktail hour on the closing evening featuring resident DJ Looka Barbi on Sunday 17th July, it seemed a fitting end to what had been a truly effervescent inaugural exposition on the hedonic island.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in August
Earth, fire, eyes and Empire.
In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom,… Read More
The Top 7 Painting Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite painting exhibitions to see in London. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you
The Top 5 Art Installation Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
Art in a church, underground and lighting up the darkness.
The Octopus that has Boomerangs
The art and design studio Intoart recently had its first exhibition, ‘An Octopus with Boomerangs’ one of the studio’s most ambitious displays that dug deep into its 22-year-old archive to exhibit work by more than 24 artists across various mediums and forms.
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
Raphael, the climate, Stonehenge, flowers and the news in a museum-fest of a top 5.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London in July
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see in July in London. Each one comes with a concise review to help you… Read More
Ten Things to See at Masterpiece
Masterpiece is unusual in bringing together ‘art’ and ‘non-art’, as well as ancient, old, modern and new, and a wide geographical range. Here are ten highlights from the 130 stands to illustrate the mix:
The most interesting thing is the thing that is not there, the thing that just evades scrutiny, the thing that hangs like cobwebs in the background
Cornelia Parker’s work is all about that liminal thing and, in this show at Tate Britain, it looms large. Indeed, one quickly forms the impression that she – intentionally or otherwise – is making the art that this fractured, restless world deserves.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London closing soon
An indoor beach, nature indoors and whole load of birds.
The Top 5 Sculpture Exhibitions to see in London
Sculpture takes centre stage in this week’s top 5.
The Top 5 Immersive Art Exhibitions in London
Clouds, music, hallucinations, a vibrating belly and severed heads.
Ossian Ward’s Marina Abramovic is an accessible overview of Marina Abramovic’s incredible life and work.
Ossian Ward’s Marina Abramovi? is an accessible, completely up-to-date and expertly written introduction and overview of Marina Abramovic’s incredible life… Read More
In Determinism’s Ugly Face.
Gagosian keeps curating exhibitions with fascinating intellectual bents, but Haunted Realism stands out amongst the rest.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in early June
Religion, memory, culture, Elvis and motherhood.
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in June
Demons, Impressionism, climate change, studios and roses.
Mark Ruwedel, Inland: Haunted by the Desert
Trees: here, quiet witnesses. Here they quiver, they croon, singing through a crisp heat in an arid landscape. Relaying part… Read More
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in East London
Head East for tech, books, dinosaurs and a giant fly.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London in late May
Paper rains down, sculpture, landscapes, auras, nature and marble.
Hector Campbell’s Top 5 For London Gallery Weekend
London Gallery Weekend kicks off this Friday, May 13th, with hundreds of special events and exhibitions taking place across London. To help you navigate we asked Hector Campbell, writer, curator and author of the weekly emerging art newsletter ‘The Shock of the Now’, to select his top choices from London’s selection of small to mid-size galleries.