NEW Art Fair for London opening this October
5 September 2013 • Mark Westall
New STRARTA Art Fair Highlights London’s Confidence
Tag: Photography
Interview: Capturing Stillness: Kuba Wieczorek
27 August 2013 • Yvette
‘For me, the strongest artwork is work you want to come back to again and again. I’m not interested in artwork that is a quick fix’.
Larry Achiampong: Sankofa and Samples of me
18 August 2013 • Yvette
‘You have to understand where it is you’re coming from before you can create something for the future’.
Review: Emma Hart: Dirty Looks at Camden Arts Centre
6 August 2013 • Yvette
‘Someone keeps on coughing. After a while I feel as though I might start coughing, as if embodying this strange, toxic, disconcerting environment’.
Artist Opportunity : Call For Artists ‘hARTs WINDOW PROJECT’
29 July 2013 • Mark Westall
Harts Lane Studios an experimental art project space in New Cross Gate in New Cross Gate – London, is launching
The hARTs Window Project: an interdisciplinary art submission
Interview: Juno Calypso at Simon Oldfield
11 July 2013 • Yvette
‘When women do take pictures of themselves they take loads and loads until they get the perfect image’.
Jan Kempenaers: ‘the aura of these places’
18 June 2013 • Yvette
‘It’s quite an experience when you arrive there and see these monuments. It’s hard to explain’.
Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors
Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
25 April 2013 • Mark Westall
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan Jones
Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art
19 April 2013 • Mark Westall
John Riddy’s images of a tumultuous Sicilian city land in central London, with the Deutsche Börse Photography prize lining up nearby – all in your weekly artistic dispatch
Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
The 10 best … photographic self-portraits
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From Andy Warhol in drag and Giles Duley’s ‘broken statue’, to John Coplans’s back and Gillian Wearing as her father
Interview: Roelof van Wyk: tracing history
5 March 2013 • Yvette
I wanted to start tracing my own history. The whole body of work is a self-portrait, and my own tenuous links to each of the individuals I photographed.
Julia Pfeiffer: Figures of the Thinkable
27 February 2013 • Yvette
Clay, its materiality and its possibilities, appear in other works – across a wall a series of objects that invoke observation and reflection.
Olivia Bee: ‘People don’t take me seriously – until they see me work’
24 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Brooklyn-based photography prodigy Olivia Bee is only 18 and has already shot advertising campaigns for the likes of Nike, Converse and Hermès – and her ambition doesn’t end there
Conrad Ventur: Montezland
5 February 2013 • Yvette
This is an expanded portrait really. It’s a tribute to Mario Montez who I met about three years ago. I met him because I was re-doing Warhol’s screen tests. He had been hidden for 35 years up until fall 2009, and then I found out he was coming out of retirement. He was on my list as somebody that I wanted to do a screen test with. We met and we hit it off.
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen’s photography
2 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
Sarah Maple: ‘an artist and a female artist’
1 February 2013 • Yvette
I like playing with the idea of what it means to be a woman today, what is expected of me and how I want to challenge that. I want to bring things to the surface that we subconsciously accept as the ‘norm’.
Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
Juergen Teller: fame laid bare
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
As his new show opens at the ICA, one of fashion’s most successful and extreme photographers talks about his father, German guilt and making Kate Moss cry
PREVIEW: Bruce Nauman / mindfuck Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The exhibition’s title, ‘mindfuck’, is a slang term that may be used as both a noun and verb, situation and action. It can mean to brainwash or manipulate someone, or describe a distressing situation or incomprehensible event.
V&A’s new collection covers 50 years of theatre photography
12 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Douglas H Jeffery’s archive documents more than 30,000 productions, from RSC’s early days to Lord of the Rings musical