Category: Articles
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Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy
Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy at The Royal Scottish Academy this January is an exhibition of monumental drawings which draw their subject matter from intensely personal experiences of family life over three decades. The eloquent and searing images are presented with…
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A Human Museum Without Walls. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
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Andrzej Jackowski: The Remembered Present
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 22 January–20 February 2010
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Crazy God. Photographs by Yvonne De Rosa
Diemar/Noble Photography, London 21 January–6 March 2010
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Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
The Design Museum, London 18 November 2009–7 March 2010
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ARC: I Draw for You
Drawn Together is a London-based group of artists (Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall) who collaborate on performance drawing projects. Their work involves live action mark making with graphite and light, sound and animation. Through repeated processes they…
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Inscription: drawing, making, thinking
Jerwood Space, London 13 January–21 February 2010
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Conceptual drawing: recent work by Bernhard Sachs, Mike Parr, Greg Creek and Janenne Eaton
In a global context drawing exists irrespective of cultural identity. It is a basic human instinct to make marks, to draw, to write
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Hitting a Wall, Finding a Shape: An interview with Gary Hill
Using a curious Internet nickname that plays with a literary reference used in his work, pioneering American video artist Gary Hill gave this interview to Studio International after the opening of his recent exhibition, Gary Hill: O lugar sem o…
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Gary Hill: Poetics Beyond the Third Dimension
Gary Hill: O lugar sem o tempo/Taking time from place Oi Futuro gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 July–6 September 2009
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A New Look for a New World. Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s by Alastair Duncan Published in the UK by Thames and Hudson (£50); in the US by Abrams ($125)
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GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world
The central theme relates to global warming, an issue, which has increasingly preoccupied statesmen, politicians, scientists and creative artists around this imperilled world
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Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain. National Gallery of Scotland, 2009
Paul Sandby (1731–1809) occupies a prominent position in British art of the 18th century in the practice of Landscape Art. This is nonetheless the first comprehensive exhibition of his work to cover the full range of the artist’s work over…
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Eva Hesse: Studiowork. Camden Arts Centre, London 2009
On the front cover of Ruth Barcan Marcus’ philosophical essays entitled Modalities is an image of an art-piece consisting of eight rectangular-shaped pieces created by a combination of materials: open-weave cloth, fibreglass, and latex, suspended from the ceiling. From the…
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Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, London 2009
Tate Modern, London 1 October 2009–17 January 2010
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Book review: Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales
Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales by Laure Adler and Élisa Lécosse
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The Sacred Made Real, National Gallery, London
Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700 National Gallery, London 21 October 2009–24 January 2010
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New Contemporaries 2009
10 November–20 December 2009 A Foundation, Rochelle School, London
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Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers
The linguistic games of Take Care of Yourself, a highlight of the Venice Biennale in 2007 are now the centrepiece of Sophie Calle’s first UK retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery
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Lucy Stein: Creemie Myopic Fables/Group Show: Purpling
In her third exhibition at Gimpel Fils, Lucy Stein’s ‘Creemie Myopic Fables’ challenges the pervasive visual stereotypes of raunch culture, addressing issues of female sexuality in Post Feminist culture
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Frozen smiles, melting hearts: Frieze Art Fair 2009 America: New Painting and Sculpture
Regent’s Park, London 15–18 Oct 2009
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Book review: Art and Text; Poor. Old. Tired. Horse
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 17 June–23 August 2009
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Aida Tomescu: Paintings and Drawings
If anything, painting is life. It is one of the very few pure things in life. It has an existence in its own right.1 – Aida Tomescu (2006)
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Remains and Remnants. Anselm Kiefer: The Fertile Crescent
Anselm Kiefer: The Fertile Crescent White Cube, Hoxton Square, London 16 October–14 November 2009
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