Author: jaywp
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Roxana Halls: ‘I often equate painting with performance’
The artist talks about her new show, Unknown Women, in which she explores concealment of identity, the different ways in which she creates a painting, and how she loves to mix and match things
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Gordon Shrigley: interview
An artist who has been concerned with concepts related to the line for more than 20 years, Shrigley explains why he is now working with performance
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘What I’m doing now is a form of performance art that combines the space of the gallery with the standard tropes of politics’
An artist who has been concerned with concepts related to the line for more than 20 years, Gordon Shrigley explains why he is now working with performance
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘I wanted to use the possibilities of fine art to create an ambiguous utopian space’
Artist Gordon Shrigley has entered the fray for the 2015 general election, standing against sitting Labour MP Meg Hillier as a candidate for the Campaign party in Hackney South and Shoreditch
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Modigliani: A Unique Artistic Voice
This exhibition of Modigliani, who died tragically young, focuses on his works on paper, and shows how, drawing on classical tradition as well as the contemporary art of the time, his distinctive style evolved
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Sanya Kantarovsky: Apricot Juice
Russian artist Sanya Kantarovsky has based this exhibition on Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical novel The Master and Margarita. Exploring the story on canvas with oil, pastel, watercolour and oil stick, he translates the author’s words into art
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Kate Downie and Susan Winton: Drawing on the landscape
Both these painters are engaged in defining their place within the landscape. From the Forth Bridge to the Parramatta River north of Sydney, from Shetland to the Spanish coast, these two women draw on their Scottish home base and their…
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The New Whitney
As the Whitney opens its doors for the first time at its new building, it is clear that architect Renzo Piano has not disappointed – the museum’s footprint is palatial, its presence majestic. And with most of its collection left…
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Cindi Di Marzo
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Cindi Di Marzo, aged 52.
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SP-Arte: The São Paulo International Art Fair 2015
SP-Arte 2015 hosted work from more than 140 galleries and 170 countries. The glittering opening had its moments and the solo exhibitions and performance events were memorable. But if only the organisers had been bolder
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C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004. A member of the museum association of the UK and a UK…
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Andrew Hewish: ‘I’m interested in a process of drift, where things are allowed to happen’
Artist and C4RD director Andrew Hewish discusses how he makes objects and paintings using a broad variety of materials
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘Will Peck and I had lots of conversations about what the form of a residency is’
Will Peck, a recent graduate, and Gordon Shrigley, artist, (Gordon has various strings to his bow and asked me to describe him solely as ‘an artist’) talk about their collaborative residency at C4RD
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Andrew Hewish: ‘To introduce drawing as a category automatically produces interesting ways of thinking’
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004
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Louise Cattrell: ‘I think you can use your memory to create that 360-degree panorama’
Landscape artist Louise Cattrell shares her secrets for bringing the viewer into the landscape and explains the magic of being presented with a blank white canvas
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Marcin Maciejowski: ‘I would be happy to always paint my wife’
The Polish portrait artist reveals the stories behind some of the paintings in his latest exhibition, Unsettled Matters – from his best friend’s wife, who didn’t really like him, to the girl in a YouTube video of a George Michael…
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Bryan Kneale – interview: ‘I always liked the idea of being totally in charge of the shape’
From shrapnel from a second world war German bomb to early editions of Studio International, Royal Academician Bryan Kneale talks about the inspiration behind his work and his latest show covering half a century of output
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Michel François: A Frozen Eagle Melting on the Theatre of Operations
In his latest exhibition, Belgian multimedia artist Michel François presents fragmented sculptures that toy with our desire to understand
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FB55
This show, while not shedding new light on Francis Bacon himself, does paint a picture of a very restrictive period for gay men and thus highlights the artist’s bravery in producing such provocative work
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Shirin Neshat: ‘Nothing is more powerful than human expression’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, for which she photographed ordinary people in Azerbaijan, how she incorporates poetry into her work, and her feelings about being so close to her own birthplace, Iran, which she has not visited for…
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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works
The artist’s 60-part work, based on the Great Migration of black people from the south to the north of the US from 1915, is shown here in its entirety. Shifting between the personal and the monumental, it tells the story…
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Mathieu Lehanneur: ‘If you say, I’m an industrial designer, a chair appears in people’s minds … I would like to push the boundaries’
Paris-based designer Mathieu Lehanneur talks about combining nature, science and technology in his creative practice, which ranges from a Wi-Fi station in Paris to a rather unusual cafe in Massachusetts, to working with Huawei, the world’s third largest mobile phone…
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CUBISM 2.0: Post-Cubism in Europe
This rare and beautiful exhibition presents 18 works by artists from France, Hungary, Russia and the US who shared the aims of cubism as applied to landscape, still-life and quotidian life
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Gavin Turk: ‘For a long time I’d say: “I don’t think I’m growing a beard, I’m just not shaving”’
For the launch of Project Beard at the Other Art Fair, artist Gavin Turk will shave off his beard in stages, transforming himself into six famous artists from Auguste Rodin to Salvador Dalí. Anna McNay went to Turk’s east London…
