GALLERY photographic & art displays

TV Gallery: Frozen Planet

Jasper Rees Sunday, 30 October 2011

What we're used to seeing whenever the BBC launches on one of its epic explorations of the natural world is moving pictures. But as well as training film cameras at their subects, from the largest...

Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's Factory

Mark Hudson Thursday, 20 October 2011

Who needs to hear or see anything more of the creepily manipulative world of Andy Warhol’s Factory? We’ve seen the films (well, bits of them); we bought the album (the one with the banana on the...

Photo Gallery: Corinne Day - The Face

Fisun Güner Sunday, 04 September 2011

The Eighties, the decade that fed us the creed of “greed is good”, spawned the fashion “glamazon”. She had supergloss looks and a full décolletage, and, naturally, she wouldn’t get out of bed for...

Graffiti Gallery: Crack & Shine International

theartsdesk Friday, 19 August 2011

It’s not the first time we have showcased the work of Will...

BBC Proms Gallery: Horrible Histories

theartsdesk Saturday, 30 July 2011

After two Proms devoted to Doctor Who, this year's children's Prom ceded the floor today...

Art Gallery: The Worlds of Mervyn Peake

Peake's 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party', 1945

Fisun Güner Tuesday, 05 July 2011

Best known for the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake, who died in 1968 and whose centenary is celebrated this year, was also an artist, an illustrator and a poet. As well as illustrating...

Marcel van Eeden, Sprueth Magers London

Josh Spero Monday, 27 June 2011

An article in this week's New Yorker bemoans the death of drawing in art. Why has the emphasis on craft, Adam Gopnik writes, been replaced by concept? He has evidently not seen the...

Gallery: Weddings and Movie Stars

Jasper Rees Sunday, 29 May 2011

Movie stars and marriage have always helped the headline-writers. When in 1956 Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe tied the knot (he for the second time, she the third), they were dubbed the Egghead...

Photo Gallery: Moby, Destroyed

'Unattended Luggage Will Be Destroyed': Moby makes stark photographic use of an airport sign

Thomas H Green Saturday, 14 May 2011

As well as a new album, Destroyed, Moby is putting out a book of photographic prints under the same title. The idea of the book is to capture the essence of being on a global tour, from...

Photo Gallery: Figures and Fiction - Contemporary South African Photography, V&A

Jodi Bieber's photographs from her series 'Real Beauty' can feel uncomfortably voyeuristic

Fisun Güner Wednesday, 13 April 2011

It’s been 17 years since apartheid came to an end in South Africa, and the...

Art Gallery: The Wellcome's Dirt - The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life

'Monster Soup, commonly called Thames Water' imagines what pestilent creatures may be found in the Thames

Fisun Güner Wednesday, 23 March 2011

There have been exhibitions, indeed even a whole museum, dedicated to cleanliness: the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, for instance (image 9), which was founded for the...

Film Gallery: Angela Allen's Life in the Movies

'He was a gentleman': Angela Allen with Clark Gable on the set of 'The Misfits'

Jasper Rees Saturday, 05 March 2011

“I’ve never been intimidated by them. I don't suffer from thinking, that person is a star. They’ve got their job. I’ve got mine. If they’re pleasant so much the better.” Angela Allen’s lifetime in...

Production Gallery: The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Charlotte MacMillan Monday, 28 February 2011

Charlotte MacMillan took photographs of the first new full-length ballet at The Royal Ballet for 16 years, Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which premiered last...

Cob Studios & Gallery: Is north the new east?

'Les Amants (Cascade )', 2009, Noemie Goudal: The Cob Gallery opens with an exhibition that contemplates our modern relationship with nature

Hilary Whitney Thursday, 17 February 2011

A burgeoning North London art scene, which includes the Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm and one of the London outposts of the Gagosian Gallery, suggests that the art world has the North firmly...

Art Gallery: Guitar Heroes - Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York

String theory: Detail of a guitar by James D'Aquisto

theartsdesk Sunday, 13 February 2011

From a guitar by Matteo Sellas dating back to Germany before 1630 to one made in New York by John Monteleone in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...

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Photo Gallery: The Best View of Heaven is From Hell

Graffiti in Helmand: One of ex-soldier Bran Symondson's Afghan photographs taken in 2010

Jasper Rees Saturday, 29 January 2011

"There's a similarity between being a soldier and a photographer. They are both looking intensely for the moment." Bran Symondson would know. He served with the British Army in Afghanistan before...

Photo Gallery: 50 Years of the Ballet, By Colin Jones

1999: English National Ballet corps warm up in Hong Kong before 'Swan Lake'

ismene Brown Thursday, 13 January 2011

Rudy and Margot do intensely serious barre in an Italian garden, Lynn Seymour enjoys a "Loyal Ballet" poster on a 1962 Japanese tour, in Glasgow two ballet girls snatch some rest in uncomfortable...

Photo Gallery: Ballet in Focus

Fisun Güner Monday, 13 December 2010

A display of rarely seen photographs of key ballet dancers from the start of the 20th century goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery holds the largest surviving archive of...

Art Gallery: Unseen Salvador Dalí

Fisun Güner Friday, 03 December 2010

The unseen Dalí? Surely not. Anyone who ever popped into Dalí Universe, the now defunct gallery on the South Bank which was devoted to the flamboyant Surrealist's work, might well ask. Since there...

Art Gallery: GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity

A masked lace dress by the late Alexander McQueen, from 1998, turns the catwalk into pure theatre

Fisun Güner Thursday, 02 December 2010

Fashion and conceptual art come together, sometimes awkwardly, often provocatively, in the Royal Academy’s third and final annual...

Film Gallery: Bill Gold's PosterWorks

'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave': 'The poster is not only funny and sexy - it's of a piece with the film's camp Gothic'

Graham Fuller Friday, 12 November 2010

Although there are thematic links between many of the movie posters designed by Bill Gold between 1942 and 2003, especially in the talismanic use of telephones (Dial M for Murder,...

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Photo Gallery: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

Fisun Güner Thursday, 11 November 2010

The winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Prize was announced yesterday, and as with most prizes you know there must be an element of compromise when it comes to selecting the...

TV Gallery: Downton Abbey

theartsdesk Sunday, 07 November 2010

Maggie Smith Violet, Dowager Countress of Grantham
Hugh Bonneville Robert, Earl of Grantham
Penelope Wilton Mrs Isobel Crawley
Dan...
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Photo Gallery: Portraits of Keith Richards 1963-71

Jasper Rees Thursday, 28 October 2010

The lens loved Mick. Those child-bearing lips, to use Joan Rivers’s ripe phrase, always came up a treat in photographs. Did it ever love Keith quite so much? Ever since he started creosoting...

Fashion Gallery: Future Beauty - 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, Barbican Gallery

Mark Hudson Thursday, 21 October 2010

Exhibitions about fashion tend to divide the public. Those passionately interested in fashion go to them; everybody else doesn’t. There’s a prevailing view that we already hear enough about...

Art Gallery: The Museum of Everything

'Squirrels who smoke cigars, squabble and get up to mischief are among the many, some might say macabre, delights of Walter Potter’s world'

Fisun Güner Wednesday, 20 October 2010

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Frieze Art Fair, Regent's Park

Damián Ortega's globe constructed from rocks of different sizes and colours at Kurimanzutto Gallery

Josh Spero Thursday, 14 October 2010

Contemporary art can, unsurprisingly, become dated pretty quickly – the clue is in the name. Another of Damien Hirst’s mirrored cabinets of pills or of Gavin Turk’s piss-takes of Andy Warhol at...

Interview: Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans

sue Steward Wednesday, 13 October 2010

The 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial has seen unprecedented numbers of visitors flock to the coast, and tonight will host a talk by one of the most original fine-art photographers working in Britain...

Photo Gallery: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

A legend in the making: Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo in Greenwich Village, 1963

Adam Sweeting Wednesday, 06 October 2010

A near contemporary of the great jazz photographer Herman Leonard, who died last August, Don Hunstein has amassed a formidable collection of images of some of the most indelible names in music,...

Production Gallery: Russell Maliphant's AfterLight

Charlotte MacMillan Thursday, 30 September 2010

New photographs by Charlotte MacMillan of Russell Maliphant's expanded Afterlight,...

Art Gallery: Pordenone Montanari, An Italian Discovery

Pordenone Montenari: 'Il Pittore a la modella' (1978)

Jasper Rees Sunday, 26 September 2010

Our culture is hungry for stories of buried treasure, for the lost archive. So when something of startling value is brought blinking into the light after many years, it answers a romantic urge....

The Art of Conducting 2010

theartsdesk Saturday, 11 September 2010

Chris Christodoulou has been honing his focus on conductors in past Proms seasons to wonderful effect, but this year has produced a galaxy of master portraits that outdoes even the immortal...