Circa 1995: New Figuration in New York
2 May 2025 • Mark Westall
The exhibition features eight generation-defining artists who played a central role in the resurgence and expansion of figurative painting during the 1990s
Tag: Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili, The Caged Bird’s Song
15 August 2024 • Toby Upson
To start with a bold statement: I do not like ‘the make of’ type exhibitions. Not moving nor sublime, wall texts and reportage never provide the romantic materialist in me with the space to get all wayward and dreamy; what I seek in exhibitions is never an ‘“interesting” …[full-stop]’.
Top 10 highlights for Edinburgh Art Festival 2024
1 August 2024 • Mark Westall
10 highlights for EAF (Edinburgh Art Festival) who are celebrating their 20th Birthday this year.
Requiem by Chris Ofili unveiled at Tate Britain
12 September 2023 • Mark Westall
Today a major new site-specific work by Chris Ofili was unveiled at Tate Britain. Spanning three walls, Requiem pays tribute to fellow artist Khadija Saye and remembers the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire. It offers a poetic reflection on loss, spirituality and transformation.
Victoria Miro to open Chris Ofili exhibition featuring a major new series of paintings.
25 May 2023 • Mark Westall
Victoria Miro to present The Seven Deadly Sins, a major new series of paintings by Chris Ofili. Completed over the past six years.
In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery
29 July 2022 • Lee Sharrock
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom,… Read More
Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, an exhibition of recent unique prints made at the visionary print studio Two Palms.
14 January 2022 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner has opened a new show, Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, an exhibition of recent unique prints made… Read More
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in late September
15 September 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London include: Plants, women, colour, abortions, human organs, cities and wood.
Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic
22 August 2017 • Staff
Weaving Magic (2014- 2017) at the National Gallery aims to place Ofili in a tradition of tapestry design represented in the same building by no less than Goya & Rubens
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
20 August 2017 • Tabish Khan
A giant tapestry, Russian propaganda, protests, drones, hands on painting, emerging artists and Thunderbirds.
Victoria Miro to open new gallery in Venice.
6 April 2017 • Mark Westall
The 1st exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice by Chris Ofili entitled ‘Poolside Magic’ comprises a suite of pastel, charcoal and watercolour works on paper.
Printed Matter in the palm of your hand. Two Palms at CFA Berlin
11 July 2016 • Staff
CFA Berlin in collaboration with Two Palms are challenging the notion of what print is today, with works by Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Chuck Close, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, and Dana Schultz.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
15 May 2016 • Tabish Khan
Another 7 interesting exhibitions for you to visit chosen by art critic Tabish Khan
COMING SOON: Rack ‘em up: a YBA Editions Exhibition: Hirst, Lucas, Turk, Coventry, Chapman, Landy, Wearing and More!
19 February 2015 • Staff
Rack ‘em up: British Contemporary Editions, 1990 – 2000 focusses on editions produced by the so-called YBA generation of artists. The survey, the first of its kind ever staged, brings together works by all of the leading figures of the period, including Keith Coventry, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk, and seeks to capture the irreverent and exuberant flavour of the era.
ART NEWS: Parasol unit’s 10th Anniversary Auction raises millions and breaks records at Sotheby’s
20 October 2014 • Mark Westall
31 donated art works for Parasol unit’s 10th Anniversary realised a total of £2,092,250 at Sotheby’s this weekend.
NEW: Chris Ofili limited edition print ‘R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 – 1993’
30 October 2013 • Mark Westall
Chris Ofili has created a new limited edition print ‘R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 – 1993’ to mark the 20 year anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
New print and artist’s book by Chris Ofili Available Now
1 November 2012 • Mark Westall
New print and artist’s book by Chris Ofili Available Now
175 Years of The Royal College of Art
19 October 2012 • Mark Westall
In 1837, the Government School of Design opened in Somerset House on the Strand in London: the world’s first, publicly funded design school. 175 years later and now known as the Royal College of Art, it is the world’s oldest art and design university in continuous operation.
Choreographers, composers, poets and visual artists respond to paintings by Renaissance master Titian
12 July 2012 • Mark Westall
The aim of the project is to demonstrate how masterpieces by Titian continue to inspire living artists today.
Pencil and Paper at Poppy Sebire Private View Thursday 28th June 2012
23 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Group Show: Anna Barriball,George Condo,Nadine Fecht,Olivier Gourvil,Anthony McCall,Chris Ofili, Johannes Phokela,Michael Raedecker,Frances Richardson ,Perry Roberts,Danny Rolph,Thomas Scheibitz ,Michael Stubbs,Marcel van Eeden.
The Mechanical Hand 25 years of Print making Private view Thursday 26th April 2012
26 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The importance of the print in British art couldn’t be better illustrated than it is today when some of the most significant contemporary painters and sculptors, are also the most exciting printmakers.
THE STRAWBERRY THIEF Selected by Jeremy Deller The Fine Art Society
6 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Jeremy Deller who brings together eight contemporary artists with modern British forebears…..
RCA Black and the table that thinks it’s a woman
24 August 2011 • Mark Westall
The Royal College of Art is trying to reinvent itself as a beacon of diversity – with a show of work by its black students. Hannah Pool enters a world of wigs, furniture and whirlwinds
TRANSMITTER / RECEIVER The Persistence of Collage A new touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection Opening Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) 22nd July – 6th November 2011
22 July 2011 • Mark Westall
The new Arts Council Collection touring exhibition Transmitter/Receiver traces some of the uses of collage in British art from the… Read More