Andy Holden Archives

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now

22 April 2023 • Tabish Khan

Migration, mortality, birds, light and colour.

Andy Holden with Hermione Burton – Full of Days

10 March 2023 • Mark Westall

Opening at the Gallery of Everything, London, on Sunday 19th March 2023, Full of Days is artist Andy Holden’s personal response to another artist’s life. The exhibition is framed not as a monologue, but as a dialogue, giving the late Hermione Burton a voice, a platform and an audience.

Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules opens at Somerset House

21 October 2021 • Mark Westall

Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules opens at Somerset House today 21st October, a major exhibition celebrating the world’s… Read More

Somerset House to celebrate the Beano & The Art of Breaking Rules

2 March 2021 • Mark Westall

Dennis and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, Bash Street Kids and the rest of the Beano gang take over Somerset House… Read More

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London before the second Lockdown

1 November 2020 • Tabish Khan

Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic has picked five exhibitions to see in London. Each one comes with a concise review to help you… Read More

ANDY HOLDEN: The Structure of Feeling (A Ghost Train Ride) “A socially distanced journey through a desolate post-cartoon landscape”

15 September 2020 • Mark Westall

The new solo exhibition by Andy Holden at Block 336 was built in the four weeks leading up to the Covid-19 enforced lock-down in Britain and was never opened to the public. Instead, it remained sealed shut like a cartoon-tomb. Transformed for a new era of cautionary and tentative exhibition viewing, it finally opens on Thursday 17th September for six weeks.

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now

24 February 2019 • Tabish Khan

This week’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see include: Elephants, enlightenment, cartoons, an overweight car and a bionic chimp.

Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion

13 February 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

Andy Holden has sourced over 400 illustrative clips, the range of references – from cave painting to Futurism to Slavoj Žižek to quantum mechanics – is dizzying, and the analogies he draws out of the material are persuasive and witty.

Nothing to joke about: why cartoons are still vital to contemporary art

16 January 2019 • Eric Thorp

Over the last century cartoons and their cultural iconography have been used as a means of relaying important messages in art.

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Snoopy, Charlie Brown and co. are heading to Somerset House

6 June 2018 • Mark Westall

Snoopy, Charlie Brown and co. are heading to Somerset House in a cultural celebration of themselves! The world’s most influential comic strip

37 artists give works to create major new fund ARTISTS FOR ARTANGEL

3 May 2018 • Mark Westall

Internationally acclaimed artists Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Robert Gober, Antony Gormley, Roni Horn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread are among the 37 artists who have given works to create a major new fund ARTISTS FOR ARTANGEL.

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The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

29 October 2017 • Tabish Khan

Suicide vests, robots, eroticism, eggs, hands, Rodin, a shopping centre and surreal landscapes.

Have the willingness to believe in the absurd!? Then, GOSEE: MI!MS (Maximum Irony Maximum Sincerity) @Zabludowicz Collection opening Thursday 26th of September

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.”