Category: Articles

Ellen Bell: Camera Obscura and Other Stories

Offsite exhibition by Four Square Fine Arts at The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London 24–29 May 2011
Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Cliff

23 April–19 May 2011 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Gino Severini (1883-1966): futuriste et neoclassique

Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris 27 April–25 July 2011
Tom de Freston: Deposition, Christ’s College Chapel

Christ’s College, Cambridge celebrated the 500th anniversary (2010) of its consecration this Easter with the installation of two site-specific altarpiece paintings by the young artist Tom de Freston, who has been the Leverhulme artist in residence there
Gosia Wlodarczak

2011 Singapore Biennale: Open House Commissioned project: Frost Drawing For Kallang (2011), performative drawing on glass (in situ), at the Old Kallang Airport, Singapore Biennale 13 March–15 May 2011
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973

Prestel, published in association with the Neuberger Museum of Art New York, 2011 Edited by Nancy Princenthal With essays by Tom McDonough, Griselda Pollock, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Kristine Stiles
Drawing Fashion: A Century of Fashion Illustration

Edited by Joelle Chariau Essays by Colin McDowell and Holly Brubach Prestel, 2011
A Symphony of Colours and Shapes: Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York 18 March–19 June 2011
I Know Something About Love

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London 9 March–22 May 2011
LAVA: Home of the Future

University of Technology Sydney Architecture Warehouse in Chippendale, Sydney 16 March–04 April 2011
John Hoyland, Mysteries

In John Hoyland’s paintings from the 1960s, thick crisply defined blocks of paint dominate the canvases. Over the subsequent decades the opaque impasto squares and rectangles began to dissolve into the drips, splatters and blobs of the background, taking on…
A Master Bows to His Country and His People: Balenciaga and Spain by Hamish Bowles

Balenciaga and Spain by Hamish Bowles Rizzoli, 2011
Egon Schiele: Self-Portraits and Portraits

Agnes Husslein-Arco and Jane Kallir Prestel, London, Munich, New York, 2011
Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973

The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester 19 February–12 June 2011 by ANNA McNAY
Romancing The Modern

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper By Alexandra Harris Thames & Hudson, London, October 2010
The Thinking Hand: Essential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture

Last autumn I had the privilege of joining the 75th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the famous city library of what was once Viipuri in Finland (karelia) ceded to the Soviet Union post war, now Vyborg in the Russian…
Misericord: Cathie Pilkington and Jay Cloth

Space Station Sixty-Five, London 25 February–1 May 2011
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet

Hayward Gallery, London 16 February–17 April 2011
Billy Childish: The Disruptive Betterment of Culture

“i am a desperate man who loves the simplicity of painting and hates gallarys [sic] and white walls and the dealers in art” (Billy Childish, i am the strange hero of hunger). L-13, Clerkenwell, London.
Show – Jerwood Encounters

JVA at Jerwood Space, London 16 March–21 April 2011
Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass

21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo 2 February–8 May 2011
In Giacometti’s Studio

Alberto Giacometti’s name and work have soared in the 21st century, quite apart from the dramatic prices raised in the salerooms recently. The form and content of his sculptures, figurative and otherwise, and paintings and preparatory drawings, with their existential…
Picasso: Guitars 1912

Museum of Modern Art, New York 13 February–6 June 2011
George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 18 February–15 May 2011