The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
18 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Japanese architecture, Pieta, ghostly ships, spinning smartphones, a diverse artist, electricity, a skip, guns and students.
Tag: Sculpture
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
11 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
The Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
29 May 2017 • 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.
A New Sculpture Park just outside London
22 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
William Benington gallery has set up Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, a sculpture park just West of London.
Giacometti review – master of all things thin
22 May 2017 • Mark Westall
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
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Venice Biennale Artist Salvatore Arancio
18 May 2017 • Staff
London-based Italian artist Salvatore Arancio presents a ground-breaking new outdoor ceramic sculptural installation at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl
16 May 2017 • Syndicate
The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring
Crapumenta ! … Anger in Athens as the blue lambs of Documenta hit town
14 May 2017 • Syndicate
The Greek capital has been invaded by talking frogs, dyed lambs and marble tents. But many locals are furious at the ‘colonial attitudes’ of the German art extravaganza
REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery
9 May 2017 • Syndicate
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?
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
7 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Mosaics, punks, kinetic art, Lucio Fontana, fake news, optical illusions and collage.
Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
4 May 2017 • Syndicate
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week
1 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
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
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
23 April 2017 • Tabish Khan
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Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Sarah Roberts
13 April 2017 • Staff
For her solo show at BLOCK 336, Sarah Roberts travels to the Costa del Sol, creating an all-enveloping five-dimensional monochromatic installation.
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Rebecca Ackroyd
6 April 2017 • Staff
Sculptor Rebecca Ackroyd could be described as a millennial Rosemarie Trockel, discovering disparate materials with considered ease and strength of purpose
REVIEW: Marc Quinn: Drawn from Life; Cerith Wyn Evans
5 April 2017 • Syndicate
Sir John Soane’s Museum; Tate Britain, London
Marc Quinn’s sculptures reduce classicism to blunt desire, while Cerith Wyn Evans’s Tate commission is an illuminated blank
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
4 April 2017 • Syndicate
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
2 April 2017 • Tabish Khan
To put 6 Art exhibitions you can’t afford to miss.
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Sculptor Samuel Zealey
30 March 2017 • Staff
British artist Samuel Zealey explores physicality and materiality through his large-scale sculpture practice that is based on a love of physics and engineering.
Feminism doesn’t need more female statues – it needs political action
29 March 2017 • Mark Westall
Bulgarian artist Erka has rightly protested against Sofia’s total lack of statues of women by erecting her own pop-up versions. But permanent statues don’t advance feminism – they trap people in the past
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
5 March 2017 • Tabish Khan
An interactive waterfall, a colourful corridor, plasticine kiss, a group show and East meets West.
Damien Hirst gives first glimpse of new Venice art.
23 February 2017 • Syndicate
With mysterious underwater objects hinting at monsters and ancient civilisations – including a $4m Medusa – Damien Hirst could be about to reverse years of creative decline
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Sculptor Holly Hendry
23 February 2017 • Staff
Holly Hendry doesn’t do anything by halves.