JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist’s London-Margate steamboat journey
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
Tag: London
Musicians prepare to battle like Bruce Lee at Institute of Contemporary Arts
19 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Experimental installation Enter the Dragon combines music and martial arts in project inspired by iconic mirror scene in 1973 Hollywood film
REVIEW: Ann Veronica Janssens – the artistic equivalent of an isolation tank
18 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Wellcome Collection, London
States of Mind is a fun installation of coloured mist that feels like swimming through a painting by Monet – but it is light entertainment, nothing more
SEE: Three Top Contemporary Masters in Mayfair During #FriezeWeek: Indiana, Viola and Richter
14 October 2015 • Staff
With the art world in a frenzy state this week due to the opening of one the three most important… Read More
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
Artist to fill Covent Garden market with 100,000 balloons
18 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Charles Pétillon’s glowing pop-up installation will stretch over 50 metres across ceiling of market building
Tracey Emin’s plan to demolish listed London building dismays East Enders
27 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist, who has spoken of importance of Spitalfields’ heritage, draws fierce criticism over plan for five-floor Sir David Chipperfield-designed home
REVIEW: Julian Opie’s portraits in motion: this is what genius looks like –
7 June 2015 • Staff
He paints with simple black lines and primary colours, and most of his characters don’t even have faces. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail
FAD’s Top 6 gallery booths at Frieze New York 2015
16 May 2015 • Staff
If you are heading to Frieze New York this weekend try and visit these booths
Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
REVIEW: Leon Golub: Bite your Tongue – so terrific, the paintings roar off the walls
4 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Late Chicago-born artist has never had the retrospective he deserves in US – perhaps galleries are afraid, for his work is as shocking as it is powerful
REVIEW: Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll’s house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum
Tower of London poppies artist received death threats
15 February 2015 • Staff
Paul Cummins, whose installation symbolised first world war deaths, says threats came from people angry that armed services charities were benefiting from the artwork
Southbank Centre bans street art event celebrating skate park’s salvation
27 January 2015 • Mark Westall
After a ceremonial event to mark the preservation of the hallowed undercroft is blocked, skaters must question how open the space really is
Short films highlight London housing crisis: ‘Coming from the high rises, there was no other option but to rise high’
19 January 2015 • Mark Westall
David Lammy’s Fourwalls film project asked London’s residents to share their experiences and stories of life in the capital. We round up some of the best short films, revealing the realities of the city’s housing crisis
Art Events for the week from Art Map London
28 October 2014 • Staff
There are loads of art events such as private views, artists talks, and screenings happening around London, usually, but its… Read More
FAD Q+A with Luna Jungeun Lee #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
3 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Currently exhibiting in DegreeArt’s Post Digital – Are We There Yet? Exhibition, we speak to Luna Jungeun Lee
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
The Art Events to visit this week from Art Map London
19 May 2014 • Staff
There are loads of art events such as private views, artists talks, and screenings happening around London, and often it is impossible to choose where to go and what to see so her ewe have the picks from Art Map London.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train and plane # 54: ‘Those Gallery Weekends Compared’
7 May 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
INTERVIEW: CURATOR, RYAN LANJI
3 April 2014 • Mark Westall
The first time I encountered Ryan Lanji was through his emails. Every so often I would receive colourful invites to exhibitions, primarily based in east London, as curated by the innately cool Lanji and his team.
INTERVIEW: DIGITAL INFLUENCER, DISNEYROLLERGIRL’S NAVAZ BATLIWALLA
31 March 2014 • Mark Westall
About a year ago the term ‘digital influencer’ started to build momentum, it featured in mainstream newspaper editorials and was casually referred to in conversations.
