Frieze Masters is back
Enough of the crowding and superficiality of Frieze London’s opening day, this year I opted for the more measured pace… Read More
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Review: The Factory Project
If you are wondering whether to visit The Factory Project, you’ll want to know about the practicalities, and the quality… Read More
Sculpture Outside the Gallery
There’s plenty of sculpture lying around outside in London now: not just the permanent stuff dotted about or combined into… Read More
Not Quite What We Were Meant To See
When wondering what artists are seeking to express, it is worth remembering that we may not be looking at what… Read More
On the Up in St Leonards
I grew up in St Leonards-on-Sea, the 19th century addition to Hastings. The two towns suffered a 50 year decline… Read More
Liv Fontaine: The Performance of Drawing
Performance art had an increasingly high pre-pandemic profile, but the curtailment of live events affected that – and even in… Read More
Art Meets Poetry
Poetry was good in lockdown, being better suited to the screen than most literature or art. That makes it timely that two ambitious London shows currently combine art with poetry
A Fine Day for Seeing a group exhibition presenting ten pairs of artists & poets.
‘A Fine Day for Seeing’ takes its title from the New York School poet and curator Frank O’Hara, who bridged… Read More
Outposts of Art
I visited three places not so typically associated with art last weekend: Beckenham, Penge and Reading. But all had their points:
Art, Life and Everything
In ‘Art, Life and Everything’, Julie Umerle chronicles her life as an artist from 1978-2010. She hasn’t had an easy ride – for example, she’s never been represented by a mainstream gallery – but…
Beyond the Uncanny
Plenty of shows bring together paintings of figures and objects in unusual contexts or brought into unexpected conjunctions: the words ‘uncanny’ and ‘enigmatic’, ‘disturbing’ and ‘surreal’ are likely to be invoked. But, even if the paintings are good, you need more to turn such a display into a compelling whole. Two current exhibitions demonstrate how:
LONDON GALLERY WEEKEND
The first London Gallery Weekend (4-6 June) felt a very positive initiative, conveniently revealing the scale of London’s commercial art… Read More
Dandelions
I wait years for a really good dandelion painting to come along, then – on the same day – see… Read More
SEMI-LOCKED-DOWN VIEWING
There’s a surfeit of new things to see just now, as pretty much every commercial gallery in London – and… Read More
The Great Painter-Sculptors
Skarstedt’s fascinating new exhibition Painter / Sculptor brings together a sculpture and a painting by nine artists who, says the… Read More
Spring Growth
No doubt some galleries will close, but to counter that there are some new developments. Sticking with the Mayfair zone:
The Artists Themselves
There’s something enticing about knowing what artists look like, even though it isn’t usually relevant to the work. Performance artists… Read More
Around the World with Ed van der Elsken
Who’s the most important Dutch photographer of the 20th century? I’m a fan of the largely street-based work of Ed van der Elsken (1925-90).
Water Everywhere
Kim Tschang-Yeul: ‘Waterdrops’, 1979 ‘If I were called in / To construct a religion’, wrote Philip Larkin, ‘I should make… Read More
Not Quite in Winnipeg
Considering it’s fairly small (750,000) a lot of interesting work is made by artists in or from Winnipeg in Canada –
Being an Octopus
What is it like to be an octopus? Would that be a better model for how an AI might be regarded as ‘intelligent’ than assessing how its responses differ from the human? And what would that mean for the way people look at the world?
Virtually There
Normally, I see virtually everything. Now I see everything virtually. But it’s not all bad. Not surprisingly, the big galleries have upped their game: see for example….
Exclusive Artist Interview: Arturo the Cat
In a playful yet pointed counter to the human-centric view of the world, London-based Italian artist Ludovica Gioscia collaborates with her cat, Arturo. I was pleased to obtain an exclusive interview with him just as they opened a major show at Baert Gallery in Los Angeles.
Human Relations in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020
The annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition – virtual, of course, this year – includes plenty of drawings directly referencing the locked down circumstances of their making.