12 December 2024 • Mark Westall
‘RIA Presents: Simeon Barclay, The Ruin’ (2025) will combine spoken word with live percussion and horn to investigate British identity, in particular ideas of masculinity & class.
4 November 2024 • Toby Upson
Indeed, it’s hard to compete with any of the artist, film maker, costume and stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, gay rights activist’s work.
15 April 2024 • Mark Westall
On the occasion of the 60th Edition of the Venice Biennale, THE POOL NYC presents Marriage of the Sea (the… Read More
8 February 2024 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre has revealed its 2024-2025 Performance and Dance programme, featuring an array of international work, contemporary collaborations and… Read More
20 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Following a critically acclaimed exhibition and series of performances in London, Florence Peake’s most ambitious work to date is at… Read More
17 August 2023 • Mark Westall
Serpentine has revealed details of Park Nights 2023, its experimental, interdisciplinary, live programme sited within the annual architectural commission, the 22nd Serpentine… Read More
4 April 2023 • Mark Westall
At Gallerie d’Italia – Turin from 5th to 10th April, Intesa Sanpaolo presents the public art performance, INSIDE OUT. The project that… Read More
10 March 2020 • Irene Machetti
How do we perceive objects when they become “activated” by a performer? Can there be, thereafter, a neutral spectatorship? ‘Forum: Bread and Games’, curated by Natalija Pauni for Open Space Contemporary, reflects on these questions, considering the precariousness of authors’ ideas and authorship.
11 November 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The site specific performance commissioned by Collezione Maramotti responds to a world class private collection with challenges about meaning and our interaction with the material world.
11 September 2019 • Irene Machetti
The artistic duo Jeschkelanger collaborated with chef Hayk Seirig to present Empty_Glass 05. This immersive and overwhelming symposium resulted in an artwork exhibited at A Plus A gallery in Venice for the exhibition Anecdotes on Origin.
31 July 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
Performance is present in many – maybe even all – artworks in some way, given that making is itself a performance. Here are three performative works I’ve liked recently:
16 April 2019 • Irene Machetti
Read my interview with Heather Sincavage. The performace artists employs food metaphoric properties (both symbolically and visually) to explore and explode trauma.
7 February 2019 • Irene Machetti
The Italian-French duo Marroni-Ouanely’s debut UK solo exhibition at PUBLIC Gallery is full of unorthodox imperfections. Sit back, smile, and enjoy.
14 November 2018 • Mark Westall
The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice is an international group exhibition, curated by Ashley Middleton, featuring works from emerging and established artists.
7 June 2018 • Irene Machetti
Last week Allegra Shorto launched a new program dedicated to the exploration of dreams through the lense of a wide range of artistic practices. The Freud Museum hosted the first experiment on May 25th
13 January 2018 • Mark Westall
The second instalment in the LIMINALITY series, exploring new cross-disciplinary works in visual-sound-performance. Focusing on ‘the Unknown’ as a central theme, Liminality 2 includes artists and performers working across diverse practises, from film, installation, sculpture, live performance, drawing and printmaking.
30 December 2017 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan loves art and visits hundreds of exhibitions a year. But every now and then he comes across something in the art world that doesn’t meet his approval.
9 August 2017 • Staff
Artists Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood have fomented a technique of combative curation that militates against against the normal pleasantries of social events.
23 July 2017 • Tabish Khan
Peformance, bling, escapism, wooden assemblages, figures, colours, rococo, a headless policeman and colourful screens.
9 May 2017 • Ben Austin
Venice Agendas is inviting visitors to participate in the recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of… Read More
18 July 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 this month:
4 March 2016 • Staff
The exhibition ‘Performing for the Camera’ at Tate Modern boasts many artistic names, including Yves Klein, Ai Weiwei, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman and Erwin Wurm. However, the show is not simply a collection of famous works and artists. The way in which the exhibition is curated sensitively displays both well-known and unfamiliar works.
4 February 2015 • Eric Thorp
The exhibition is an overwhelming, audiovisual celebration which attacks the senses with an uncompromising energy
25 September 2014 • Mark Westall
The Fine Art Society is to present a major contemporary group exhibition marking the centenary of Duchamp’s readymade – a concept that challenged the very notion of art itself.
