GALLERY photographic & art displays
Sticky fingers: Conductors at the 2015 Proms
Sunday, 13 September 2015
Every summer at the BBC Proms the world's greatest conductors are captured in the waiting lens of Chris Christodoulou. His official portraits are sent out to the press straight after most concerts... Read more... |
Gallery: Philip Jones Griffiths' Vietnam
Sunday, 28 June 2015
The most celebrated reportage to come out the Vietnam War was Michael Herr’s Dispatches, rightly acclaimed as the most visceral journey into the dark heart of America’s first military... Read more... |
Gallery: Christina Broom's Soldiers and Suffragettes
Saturday, 20 June 2015
There were female pioneers of photography before Christina Broom, most notably Julia Margaret Cameron. And others have hidden their light under a bigger bushel: Vivian Meier's body of work... Read more... |
Gallery: The Drowned Man of Punchdrunk
Monday, 15 June 2015
Punchdrunk entered the world of theatre through a side door in the basement. The company navigated a strange path around abandoned warehouses on the edge of town, via the odd wrong turn and sundry... Read more... |
Tough & Tender: Sheila Rock's English Seascapes
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
I had never really photographed landscape. But I spent many wonderful weekends in Suffolk and Norfolk along the coast. This project began when I just decided to photograph the sea in a very... Read more... |
'I'm the photographer. Any nudity? Any fighting?'
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
We are sitting in the lobby of the National Theatre in the early afternoon waiting for the photocall for Dara to begin. Six or seven photographers, one woman, all dressed in jeans and... Read more... |
Boys on Film: Duran Duran's '84 tour
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
In 1984 Duran Duran were at the height of their fame. Seven and the Ragged Tiger, the band’s third studio album, became their first (and only) number one soon after its... Read more... |
Gallery: Honoré Daumier and Paula Rego - a conversation across time
Monday, 17 November 2014
Baudelaire called him a “pictorial Balzac” and said he was the most important man “in the whole of modern art”, while Degas was only a little less effusive, claiming him as one of the three... Read more... |
Maestri: Conductors at the 2014 Proms
Monday, 15 September 2014
Chris Christodoulou is the official Proms photographer, writes David Nice. From his uniquely privileged position behind a velvet curtain, he captures the white heat of performance. The... Read more... |
Gallery: CBeebies Prom
Sunday, 27 July 2014
In recent years the BBC Proms have woken up to the idea that an audience for classical music can be captured young. The Doctor Who Prom was the first to harness a BBC brand and turn it into a... Read more... |
Gallery: International Exchanges, Tate St Ives
Sunday, 06 July 2014
This summer, Tate St Ives turned 21. And this makes it as good a time as any for an exhibition repositioning the artists who were associated with St Ives, the small harbour town in Cornwall, where... Read more... |
Gallery: Stars of the Glyndebourne Chorus
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Its constituent parts come in all sizes, tall and small, compact or full-bodied, and span the ages. But put them all together and an operatic chorus is a vast but single organism that sings – and... Read more... |
Lumiere Festival 2013, Durham
Saturday, 16 November 2013
The trumpeting of a lone elephant can be heard all around Durham city centre, blasting across the River Wear. The organisers of Artichoke’s Lumiere Festival, now in its third biennial year, have... Read more... |
Gallery: Only in England - Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr
Monday, 23 September 2013
Tony Ray-Jones is one of the hidden greats of British social documentary photography. A huge influence on photographers working today, he documented the English at play with great empathy and... Read more... |
Gallery: Derwent Art Prize
Friday, 20 September 2013
You can use a computer to draw, as Hockney does, every day on his iPad, yet, despite all the technological advances the 21st century has thrown our way, the pencil continues to be the... Read more... |
Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
Monday, 09 September 2013
"What I’m looking for is that fraction of a second that at least I could remember the concert by." At the start of the 2013 BBC Proms season, photographer Chris Christodoulou let ... Read more... |
Prom 2: The Doctor Who Prom in Pictures
Sunday, 14 July 2013
There's the First Night and there's the Last Night. Nowadays among the staples of the two-month world-famous festival of music at the Royal Albert Hall, there is also the Doctor Who Prom. Last... Read more... |
The Fine Art of Shooting Conductors
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Chris Christodoulou has been photographing conductors at the BBC Proms since 1981. Many attending the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall may well have attempted to spot him. They can give up on that... Read more... |
Performers: A Season in Photographs
Saturday, 06 July 2013
A stage performance in any art form communicates through sound and motion. A photographer's task is to capture the dramatic experience in the silence and stillness of the 2D image. In the worlds... Read more... |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline
Thursday, 25 April 2013
The historians of punk are in full flow. Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming and the BBC Four's documentary series Punk Britannia have documented much of what needs to be said.... Read more... |
Gallery: The Springtime of the Renaissance
Sunday, 31 March 2013
The images in this gallery illustrate some of the links and juxtapositions made in The Springtime of the Renaissance. Classical statues which influenced Florentine artists, works reunited... Read more... |
Gallery: Art Projects and The Catlin Guide at the London Art Fair
Monday, 14 January 2013
The London Art Fair may not have the international heft or VIP glamour of Frieze, but for 25 years it’s been the place to see and buy the best of British modern art. While the main fair features... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: They That Are Left
Sunday, 11 November 2012
For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Gallery
Friday, 14 September 2012
Take the day, and a stiff drink afterwards, as you’ll need it for this thoughtful and deeply disturbing exhibition. A picture, goes the cliché, is worth a thousand words, and nowhere more so than... Read more... |
The Art of Conducting 2012
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The BBC Proms are steeped in traditions, many admirable, some arcane, the odd one ever so slightly maddening. In the short life of The Arts Desk - we turned three on Sunday, the... Read more... |
The Hitchcock Players: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Before the blonde, there was Bergman. In the second half of the 1940s, Hitchcock cast Ingrid Bergman three times, and on each occasion asked her to incarnate a different kind of leading lady. In... Read more... |
Intimate Exposure: Marilyn Monroe 50 Years On
Sunday, 05 August 2012
It’s 50 years since Marilyn Monroe died alone on the night of August 4, 1962, from swallowing too many sleeping pills. The sad story soon became the stuff of legend. When they found her, she was... Read more... |
Gallery: Collecting the Olympic Games, British Library
Thursday, 26 July 2012
As London 2012 finally settles into the blocks for its two-week dash after seven years of preparation, the British Library has cast a nostalgic look back to the two previous Olympiads hosted by... Read more... |
theartsdesk at the Latitude Festival 2012: Squeeze, Squelch
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
As a giggling toddler posed for a photograph next to a pink sheep, a man in a Barbour jacket moaned about losing his garlic-crusher. On the lake, smitten newlyweds enjoyed a gondola ride, while,... Read more... |
The Art of Conducting 2011
Saturday, 14 July 2012
The greatest music festival of them is once more upon us. Throughout our extensive coverage of last year's BBC Proms, we featured the remarkable work of photographer Chris Christodoulou. We have... Read more... |
Gallery: Hop Farm Festival
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Brand-free, eschewing sponsorship, and letting kids in for free, the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent, has risen steadily in stature to become one of the major fixtures on the UK festival... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Top Deck
Sunday, 22 January 2012
In popular myth, Margaret Thatcher reportedly said that any man still travelling by bus after the age of 30 could consider himself a failure. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal, but it stuck... Read more... |
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