The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in September
30 August 2020 • Tabish Khan
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see iN London include Horses, hands, penises, London, zombies and miniatures.
Tag: drawing
New Mythologies at Huxley-Parlour Gallery
15 April 2019 • Irene Machetti
Huxley-Parlour Gallery presents New Mythologies. Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Painting. Through the compositions of seven artists, the exhibition explores the intertwining of abstraction and figuration.
Marlborough’s line up for Frieze week – Paula Rego & Antoine Catala
24 September 2018 • Irene Machetti
Marlborough’s Frieze exhibitions are Paula Rego – From Mind to Hand, Drawings from 1980 to 2001, and Antoine Catala – Everything is Okay: Season 2. they are must-see during Frieze week.
William Kentridge’s designs for Ornellaia wine raised €140,000 for the upcoming photography centre at the V&A
31 May 2018 • Irene Machetti
Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.
Daniel Hosego, Jon Braley & Sam Branton ‘Makers of Marks’
27 February 2018 • Mark Westall
Drawing and printmaking have much shared history and enjoy a deeply interwoven relationship,. In ‘Makers of Marks’ three artists experiment with this relationship against a background of classical references: Daniel Hosego, Sam Branton and Jon Braley
The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
18 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Japanese architecture, Pieta, ghostly ships, spinning smartphones, a diverse artist, electricity, a skip, guns and students.
Graphic Witness (Group Show) – Drawing Room, Bermondsey, London
14 June 2017 • Staff
Bermondsey’s Drawing Room styles itself as Europe’s only public non-profit gallery dedicated to drawing.
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Devlin Shea
27 April 2017 • Staff
2016 Slade graduate and future Bloomberg New Contemporary Devlin Shea reveals what drives her figurative drawing and painting practice.
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Rebecca Ackroyd
6 April 2017 • Staff
Sculptor Rebecca Ackroyd could be described as a millennial Rosemarie Trockel, discovering disparate materials with considered ease and strength of purpose
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
9 January 2017 • Tabish Khan
Jihad, Jeff Koons, animal furniture, drawings, sulphur and ash.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this week
29 August 2016 • Tabish Khan
Fashion, found objects, engineering, travel and skyscrapers.
Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern review – one long, strange trip
7 July 2016 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
This blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, awkward art compounds the cliches
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
30 May 2016 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
9 May 2016 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you. All are closing soon, and there are so many it’s been expanded to seven:
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
17 April 2016 • Tabish Khan
Ancient Egypt, ravens, balance, humour, Fukushima and portraiture.
Where is London’s latest secret art space? Better ask your GP
4 March 2016 • Mark Westall
From Aleah Chapin’s super-sized greying nudes to Eduardo Paolozzi’s tender casts of his own hands, the art on show at the Royal College of General Practitioners is all flesh and blood and bones and sinew
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
6 December 2015 • Tabish Khan
Animated busts, a lost river, rubber production, The feminist library plus images of hard hitting new stories from across the world.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
22 November 2015 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you five exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
9 November 2015 • Tabish Khan
Protests, opulence, Play-Doh, lying in the grass and nightmarish female figures
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: #drawingchangeslives
10 August 2015 • Staff
Exclusive Interview with Jackie Devereux PSGFA
Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art
17 April 2015 • Staff
An intelligent, sensitive and beautifully illustrated survey of contemporary artists who place drawing and the human form at the heart of their practice
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious