Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
26 July 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features feathered sculptures, NASA photographs, Renaissance masterpieces, lots of tongue and a Stegosaurus.
Tag: Sculpture
Anthony Caro in Yorkshire review – sculpture that can take your breath away
20 July 2015 • Mark Westall
His monumental forms make you dance, his table-top works are in drag – and his shapes are so simple you can’t believe he dared. As a vast two-site retrospective proves, Caro’s best work remains audacious, alluring and disarming
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
28 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes Greek nudes, social media, architecture, graceful curves and bronze.
REVIEW: Barbara Hepworth: a life told in six works
9 June 2015 • Mark Westall
We associate Barbara Hepworth with St Ives and Yorkshire, but often forget she was a driving force in international modern art. On the eve of a major Tate retrospective Tim Adams tells the dramatic story of this fascinating artist through key pieces spanning 40 years
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
7 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes food, fairytales, post-it notes, sunflowers and weightlifters
Anish Kapoor’s Versailles ‘vagina’ causes controversy in France
5 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist behind Paris’s biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as ‘the vagina of the queen’ taking power
Che Bello! Sculpture by Nathalie Decoster at Lovely Lake Como Hotel
28 May 2015 • Mark Westall
What a view. This is french sculptor Natalie Decoster’s piece ‘Temps qui Passe’ installed at the Villa Lario
Unseen Henry Moore sculpture designs to go on display in London
13 May 2015 • Mark Westall
Photographs of plaster models used by the British sculptor to offer Unesco a choice of works in 1957 are to go on display in London
Politics & Nature: unnatural and natural states of the world at 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
13 May 2015 • Lee Sharrock
Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
10 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 includes creepy manikins, emerging art, Nordic sculpture, cartoons, torture, Ukraine, guns and landscapes.
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #68: She Screams for Britain Daddio!
8 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
4 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 includes the world’s best photography, tiny sculptures, photographs of space, Nigerian art, Anish Kapoor, melting televisions, surreal sculpture and street art
Nuts, bolts and art: the man who turned a hardware store into hard cash
29 April 2015 • Mark Westall
Theaster Gates wants to make the world a better place, so he transforms everyday objects – from old basketball courts to the entire contents of the shop he just bought – into art to raise funds for his community projects in rundown Chicago
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
27 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
Politics, skater girls, hyper-realism, 3D sculpture and photography meets collage
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
13 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
A beetle collection, atmospheric video, pained portraits, gunshots and glow in the dark painting
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
7 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 features Rubens, Onomatopoeia, moonlit landscapes, miniature sculptures, assault rifles, Surinam, emerging artists and internet cables.
Tabish’s Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
23 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 6 features Henry Moore, beautiful birds, an organic calendar, a minotaur, voyages to the Arctic and surrealism
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
16 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 includes stairs, portraits, hunting, organic forms, the surreal, a shipwreck and soap
REVIEW: Sculpture Victorious – everythng here was made to make us marvel
1 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain, London
In room after room of busts and bling, Tate Britain’s Victorian sculpture show brings out the best and worst of a patriotic era
Kapoor’s bottomless whirlpool: a sublime spectacle from the magician of modern art
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
I used to think Anish Kapoor was just another contemporary artist with nothing to say – but his latest installation shows just how daring he really is
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
9 February 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes giant steel sculptures, photography, burka clad police officers, crystalline faces and a group show.
Sculpt furniture or abstract sculpture remotely with a robotic arm
3 February 2015 • Mark Westall
An interactive installation by design studio Kram/Weisshaar allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that sculpts foam cubes into furniture pieces.
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
Over 40 Street Artists celebrate the city @SomersetHouse
19 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Contemporary cartographic art by international street and graffiti artists to be the first exhibition in Somerset House’s recently opened New Wing.