Hayward Gallery appoints Rachel Thomas as Chief Curator
Rachel Thomas has been appointed Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre. Rachel joins the gallery on 28th April 2022 from the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
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London Art Fair Spring edition opens this week.
London Art Fair returns from 20-24 April 2022, highlighting a selection of the best galleries from the UK and beyond…. Read More
Olivia Sterling: Manslaughter –
Guts Gallery is opening Manslaughter, an exhibition of new work by Olivia Sterling opening this Thursday 7th April. Challenging hierarchical systems… Read More
Jacolby Satterwhite’s fantastical queer worlds unfold at Tate Modern
This Wednesday, 6th April, from 6:30-8pm, the Tate Modern will present Jacob Satterwhite’s Birds in Paradise—a six-part, two-channel film installation—which will be followed by a conversation with… Read More
Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood to open new exhibition this Spring.
Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood first met in the 1980s as students at Exeter University and have created art together ever since. Donwood has created the cover art for all of Radiohead’s ground-breaking albums since The Bends in 1996.
Digital Artist and Radio Show Host Pritpal Ajimal tells us about his upcoming exhibition Lines #1
Radio Presenter, DJ & Writer, Maria Hanlon chatted to Digital Artist and Radio Show Host Pritpal Ajimal ahead of his exhibition Lines #1 taking place this week (31st March-1st April) at Above the Clouds.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London right now
Carnival, femininity, landscapes, art history & fire.
Flo Brooks Be tru to your rec
In his second solo exhibition with Project Native Informant, Cornwall-based British artist Flo Brooks (b. 1987) presents a new series of paintings and, for the first time, collages.
You Turn Me Inside Out, a solo show by Christopher Stead.
You Turn Me Inside Out, a solo show by Christopher Stead that has just opened at FOLD gallery. Christopher Stead works with hand-torn and found material, where matter is woven into spaces that invite a human presence, participation and play.
Rana Begum – New exhibition & site-specific outdoor public sculpture to open.
Pitzhanger’s new solo exhibition by Rana Begum RA explores the perception of light, colour and form within sculpture, painting and… Read More
Damien Hirst’s 18 metre bronze Demon may be heading to London
The Art Newspaper reports that the property developer Knight Dragon plans to install Damien Hirst’s 18-metre-tall bronze sculpture Demon with… Read More
Rebirth’ Artists Talk to Curator Lee Sharrock
A group exhibition opening on 4th March at new West London gallery 99 Projects features several artists previously interviewed by the exhibition’s curator in FAD column ‘The Upcoming’
New permanent artwork by Alexandre da Cunha unveiled at Battersea Power Station Underground station.
Today Art on the Underground unveiled a new major permanent artwork by London-based Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha, installed at… Read More
Royal Opera House, National Theatre, Southbank Centre + more welcome Little Amal to London.
Arts, culture and humanitarian organisations across London are coming together to welcome Little Amal when she visits London from 22nd–… Read More
‘The Artist’s Garden’ with Lakwena 1,400 sqm Temple Station roof terrace comes to life
For the first time since it was built in 1870 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the vast undiscovered half-acre roof terrace… Read More
ARTIST ROOMS: Phyllida Barlow, the latest in this series of free displays at Tate Modern, now open.
ARTIST ROOMS: Phyllida Barlow, the latest in this series of free displays at Tate Modern, opens to the public today…. Read More
Practice in Action: A Review of Theaster Gates at Richard Gray Gallery
What results from urban planning, social practice, and a hunger for change? Theaster Gates at Richard Gray may be it. The latest exhibition from the Chicago based artist emphasised the intersection of fine art and social progression.
Philip Colbert #lookingforU
Ahead of the group show ‘Looking For U’ an exhibition exploring art in the digital age – we have managed to catch up briefly with one of the artists Philip Colbert. The exhibition opens tonight at The Unit London (a new 6,000 sqft gallery in Mayfair)
FUGITIVE FEMINISM
The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents a five-day convening of artists, academics and activists focused on contemporary Black feminist politics, examining the impossibility of Black women’s claims to womanhood and the new spaces that are created by a politics of refusal. Generating conversations across the diaspora and across generations, a range of thinkers and practitioners present a series of talks, workshops, film screenings and performance.
Miriam Austin: Gimmel
Gimmel will be Miriam Austin’s second solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum. Based in London, New Zealand-born Austin has a rich multidisciplinary practice that explores the relationship between ritual, myth, ecological fragility, and the politics of the body
Collier Schorr solo exhibition In Front of the Camera
Modern Art are showing a solo exhibition of work by Collier Schorr. This is her 4th solo exhibition with the gallery.
Exhibition of new work Blobz from cult American artist, Kenny Scharf opens in London
Cult American artist, Kenny Scharf, the grandfather of Street Art, who alongside friends Haring and Basquiat founded the street art movement in 1980s New York with his surreal pop art murals, is to have his first UK exhibition for ten years in London.
Coming soon: Banksy and his greatest hits 2002 -2008
Banksy’s original gallerist Steve Lazarides and his Lazinc co-founder Wissam Al Mana are going to exhibit an influential collection of Banksy’s most iconic images this summer.
James Ostrer explores race, greed and the tribal elite in his new show opening next week.
In 2016 world-renowned curator Azu Nwagbogu invited James to show his 2014 ‘Wotsit All About’ series in Lagos, Nigeria. Naturally, Nwagbogu expected Ostrer to come along with his fetishised junk food portraits that had warned the west of over-consumption.