Kanye West and Paul McCartney ring in 2015 with new collaboration, Only One
1 January 2015 • Staff
Rapper releases first new material since acclaimed Yeezus album and tour, potentially to be featured on his upcoming LP
Tag: culture
Exhibit Your Art in London and New York
26 December 2014 • Staff
In 2015, we are taking the Share Your Art series to the next level with exhibitions in London and New York. What themes would you like to tackle?
REVIEW: Jockum Nordström: For the insects and the hounds @DavidZwirner
22 December 2014 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner; National Gallery, London
Sweden’s Jockum Nordström unsettles with work that seems to tap into childhood. And prepare to be surprised by the long-forgotten art of Peder Balke
A history of Sony’s successes and failures
20 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Founded in 1946, the Japanese company has broken Hollywood, changed the world of music and invented the robot dog, but it wasn’t always plain sailing
Lucky PDF, the DIY art agitators
7 December 2014 • Staff
The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generation
The best art books of 2014
7 December 2014 • Staff
The year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysis
Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album may debut @Art Basel Miami Beach
2 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Member RZA has hinted that their unique Once Upon a Time in Shaolin record might get a public airing at the December instalment of the esteemed exhibition
• Wu-Tang Clan producing one copy of new album
• Wu-Tang Clan: 10 of the best
Albanian Artsis Anri Sala wins Vincent award for contemporary art
24 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Installation artist beats four nominees including British Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing
Georgia O’Keeffe flower painting sells for record-breaking $44.4m
21 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War review – rousing, revelatory and poignant
16 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Pallant House, Chichester
How did British artists respond to the war that so famously inspired Picasso? This exemplary show is the first devoted to finding out
Michael Williams, Eoin McHugh, Christopher Orr: this week’s new exhibitions
15 November 2014 • Mark Westall
From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country
Takashi Murakami review: a welcome return to a more disturbing style
13 November 2014 • Mark Westall
His collaborations with Kanye West and Louis Vuitton have made him rich and famous, but the Japanese artist’s new works, inspired by Fukushima, are more than gaudy trinkets for the super rich
Why stars love Polaroid’s retro chic: no risk of embarrassing uploads on the net
9 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Revival for photo format joins other analogue passions endorsed by new celebrity generation
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
REVIEW: Transmitting Andy Warhol – white light and black angels in an immersive explosion
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Tate Liverpool
The first major Andy Warhol exhibition in the north of England recreates the world of the Factory and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable – and Warhol is revealed in all his compassion and searing insight
Death, drugs and survival: DV8 Physical Theatre tells the story of John
6 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Lyttelton, London
Physical theatre group DV8’s new piece explores abuse and intimacy – but an unbalanced narrative dulls the impact
• Death, drugs and survival: DV8 Physical Theatre tells the story of John
Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, Australia’s richest portrait award
29 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Painter’s portrait of photographer Bill Henson takes $150,000 Moran prize, which attracted more entries than the Archibald
David Armstrong: photographer of outsiders lately embraced by fashion
28 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Armstrong, who has died aged 60, had a contrasting style to his great friend Nan Goldin, but their subjects were intertwined
VIDEO: Melanie Gurney #POSTDIGIAL
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Melanie Gurney from Degree Art on Vimeo. Born in Hong Kong in 199, Melanie Gurney graduated with a BA in… Read More
FAD Q+A with Fabio Lattanzi Antinori #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
We speak to Fabio Lattanzi Antinori who is currently showing his digital sculpture ‘The Abyss’ in DegreeArt’s Post Digital –… Read More
REVIEW : Richard Hamilton @ ICA & Tate Modern
3 March 2014 • Staff
The prolific career of Richard Hamilton, Britain’s pioneer of ‘pop’, is currently on show, being celebrated in style, as both the ICA and Tate Modern host exhibitions dedicated to the life, triumphs and innovations of one of the best of British art.
Art Book : Art Studio America
15 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Thriving, eclectic and exciting, the in-famous American dream lives on within the realm of contemporary art, a notion that is perfectly illustrated within the covers of this large-format, lavishly illustrated, high quality, new publication.
Review: BODY LANGUAGE : Saatchi Gallery
21 November 2013 • Mark Westall
This winter, The Saatchi Gallery plays host to a vast exhibition devoted to the depiction of the human body: demonstrating the prevalence of the human form in contemporary art.
Princess Perfect?
7 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Trumbles images of idealist females does deconstruct the Western beauty conventions, yes, but they also highlight society’s issue with stereotyping.