Paul’s trip to Hastings
1 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s always a lively programme in the purpose-built galleries in Hastings old town
Tag: Michael Landy
The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
12 October 2022 • Mark Westall
Somerset House presents The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, a major exhibition exploring how ideas rooted in horror… Read More
30 contemporary British artists including Damien Hirst, Lubaina Himid, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread create miniature art works for model art gallery.
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
Artangel mark twenty years since Michael Landy’s Break Down.
27 January 2021 • Mark Westall
This February marks twenty years since one of the most remarkable artworks Artangel has commissioned, Michael Landy’s Break Down, took place in… Read More
Artists design scarves for #ScarfUp to keep out the cold air in winter months
29 September 2020 • Mark Westall
#ScarfUp and keep out the cold is the message from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s official charity CW+ and a group of contemporary artists
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
21 October 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 art exhibitions to see include: Nocturnal London, black and white, lumpy portraits, corporate culture, celebrating women, crushed art and unorthodox furniture.
Subversion at the Royal Academy
13 June 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’m not sure one could claim that the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (12 June – 19 Aug) is now cool. But in its 250th anniversary year it is no longer so uncool that it is simply ignored. Instead, it is ripe for being subverted.
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.
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
25 October 2015 • Tabish Khan
A disembowelled teddy, headlines, shimmering, 3D and Cuba
COMING SOON: Rack ‘em up: a YBA Editions Exhibition: Hirst, Lucas, Turk, Coventry, Chapman, Landy, Wearing and More!
19 February 2015 • Staff
Rack ‘em up: British Contemporary Editions, 1990 – 2000 focusses on editions produced by the so-called YBA generation of artists. The survey, the first of its kind ever staged, brings together works by all of the leading figures of the period, including Keith Coventry, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk, and seeks to capture the irreverent and exuberant flavour of the era.
ART STUFF on a train # 86: ‘Welcome to the Machine’
17 December 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
Many artists have experimented with painting and drawing machines: Jean Tinguely, Rebecca Horn, Richard Jackson and Angela Bulloch come to mind. On the other hand, Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Erased de Kooning’ is a seminal piece of hard manual labour.
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
1 September 2013 • Tabish Khan
Every Monday Tabish Khan brings you five exhibitions that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether its for you.
Preview: Michael Landy ’20 Years of Pressing Hard’ at Thomas Dane Gallery
28 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A major retrospective of London-based artist Michael Landy’s works on paper
Michael Landy ‘Saints Alive’ at The National Gallery
22 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Saints are more often associated with traditional sacred art than with contemporary work, but Michael Landy, current Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence at the National Gallery, has been inspired to revisit the subject for this exhibition.
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup
Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction
29 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Decapitations, tooth-pullings, chargrillings … the lurid deaths of saints in paintings were what caught Michael Landy’s eye when he took over as artist-in-residence at the National Gallery. Charlotte Higgins visits his studio to play with his mechanised martyrs
Taren McCallan: Get Your Art On FAD #11
23 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Tarren McCallan: Get Your Art On FAD #11
The Mechanical Hand 25 years of Print making Private view Thursday 26th April 2012
26 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The importance of the print in British art couldn’t be better illustrated than it is today when some of the most significant contemporary painters and sculptors, are also the most exciting printmakers.
Michael Landy with The Credit Card Eating Machine Frieze Art Fair 2011
13 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Quick chat with Michael Landy at Frieze Art Fair 2011 talking about his Credit Card Eating Machine.
All my lines in then palm of your hand: Michael Landy for Art on the Underground
1 September 2011 • Mark Westall
A new work by artist Michael Landy, All my lines in the palm of your hand, the latest artist commission… Read More
VIDEO : Save The Arts
3 January 2011 • Mark Westall
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
Michael Landy For Louis Vuitton
25 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Louis Vuitton has commissioned UK artist Michael Landy to create a crazy new work for their flagship Bond St store… Read More