This week’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London include Science fiction, Pikachu, skinning buildings, a hairy mannequin, tribal statues, Trump and Chernobyl.
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REVIEW: Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments
On the eastern front in 1944, rear gunner Joseph Beuys (b1921-d1986) was—according to his own personal mythology— rescued from a burning Stuka by Tatar nomads and wrapped in fat and felt. These totemic materials predominate throughout the German artist’s work, with the myth as a resonating centre of meaning, both personal and historical, even if the story itself isn’t really true.
Continue Reading...Review: Folkestone triennial – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions
Antony Gormley sculptures lurk under the promenade, Richard Woods invades town with huts for second-homers, while Bob and Roberta Smith treats local kids to art lessons. An eye-catching battle is raging at the Kent seaside between rich and poor, social decay and civic pride
Continue Reading...REVIEW: Soul of a Nation – the extraordinary art of the black power era
Tate Modern, London
Civil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle
Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
Tate Modern, London
Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light
What’s Wrong With Art? Everyone’s a Critic
Some critics lack the bravery to give negative reviews
Well now there’s a new type of critic on the horizon, the average person.
Giacometti review – master of all things thin
Tate Modern, London
Fight your way through the spindly hordes at this huge, overcrowded Giacometti show and you’ll find a tender, protean artist who is still uniquely strange
REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The 73-year-old sculptor’s most significant show yet is a crowded game of associations, where skeletal megaphones spar with concrete clods. But is there space for us to play too?
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable – beautiful and monstrous
Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Filling two museums with ancient ‘treasure’, Hirst’s spectacular mix of storytelling, invention and humour is art for a post-truth world