With Koi Wa Ameagari No You Ni (After the Rain), Wit Animation Studios has taken Jun Maryuki’s sweet little romance manga to a whole new level, filling it to the brim with vibrant colours, poetic imagery and skilfully animated choreography leaving it bursting with life and something resembling magic.
Continue Reading...YOU ARE BROWSING: Art Reviews.
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions previewed by FAD magazine.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 17/06/18
Feel good, hoodies, a breathing sculpture, lie down, wobbly London, combs, a bustling market and Italian glamour.
Continue Reading...Gakuen Babysitters, anime adaptation REVIEW
From loud bratty children to soft squishy cheeks; snotty snub noses versus wet puppy dog eyes; tragic circumstance made inspirational; growing others to growing up yourself. Anywhere from mild irritation to cheerful happy smiles, slice of life anime adaptation Gakuen Babysitters (School Babysitters) knows how to push our buttons.
Continue Reading...Subversion at the Royal Academy
I’m not sure one could claim that the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (12 June – 19 Aug) is now cool. But in its 250th anniversary year it is no longer so uncool that it is simply ignored. Instead, it is ripe for being subverted.
Continue Reading...My week in the art world – Signals to Klein
I did however spend an unsurprising amount of time in Mayfair as S2 opened the third and final component of Signals Reimagined, Levy Gorvy was irresistible in presenting two of my favourite artists in dialogue and Artangel took over Cork Street’s construction site for an incredible fund raising auction.
Continue Reading...The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 10/06/18
Immortality, a maze, decapitated bodies, raw emotion, optical illusions, tar and Iran.
Continue Reading...The art of dreaming, or how art can shape dreams
Last week Allegra Shorto launched a new program dedicated to the exploration of dreams through the lense of a wide range of artistic practices. The Freud Museum hosted the first experiment on May 25th
Continue Reading...Werner Büttner and Markus Lüpertz: all sorts of happiness and tents
If you want fascinating early work in a two floor show by an established German painter – complete with umlaut – you have, surprisingly, two current choices: Markus Lüpertz (born 1941) at Michael Werner or Werner Büttner (born 1954) at Marlborough
Continue Reading...The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 03/06/18
Ships, UFOs, Windrush, pollution, sex slavery, Londoners and data.
Continue Reading...Jean Dubuffet A Festival of The Mind
One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Dubuffet sought to create work which shunned traditional notions of beauty and favoured immediate forms of expression.
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