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Frieze Art Fair, Regent's Park![]()
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... Read more... |
Interview: Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans![]()
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan![]()
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,... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Russell Maliphant's AfterLight![]()
New photographs by Charlotte MacMillan of Russell Maliphant's expanded Afterlight,... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Pordenone Montanari, An Italian Discovery![]()
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.... Read more... |
The Art of Conducting 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... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Fourth Plinth Commission![]() A playful, subversive mood dominates the shortlist for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth. Most of the six proposals, in what is a very strong shortlist, play on notions of British identity, probing... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: A Century Apart, James Ravilious & John Wheeley Gutch![]()
Life changes at such speed in cities that it seems as if all the world must move at the same pace. Photographs prove otherwise. Looking at the two portfolios of West Country photographs below, you... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Bolshoi Ballet class by Charlotte MacMillan![]()
Charlotte MacMillan took these exclusive pictures last week of the Bolshoi corps de ballet in class. The pictures brought back memories of his training to English National Ballet'... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Terry Setch - Lavernock![]() Terry Setch can lay claim to being the most underrated artist in Britain. Not that the Cardiff-based Londoner has been entirely neglected: acclaimed as one of Britain’s most powerful painters by his... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Howard Hodgkin - Time and Place![]() Howard Hodgkin is unquestionably the grand figure of British non-figurative painting. Often compared to Matisse in his use of intense colour, he has always insisted that his paintings are not... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Ray Lowry - London Calling![]()
It’s hard to believe that it’s 30 years since the release of The Clash's London Calling, an album that sounds as vital, immediate and relevant today as it did then. Yet there are probably... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Rude Britannia - British Comic Art![]()
There’s a rich vein of comic and satirical humour that runs through British art. Hogarth set the trend in the mid-1700s and heralded a golden age of graphic satirists. These included the three... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Picasso Special - The Mediterranean Years![]()
The war was over, Picasso was finally free to leave the privations of Paris behind him and to spend more time in the South of France, marking a return to his Mediterranean heritage. The Gagosian... Read more... |
Production Gallery: The Royal Opera's La Fille Du Régiment![]()
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Photo Gallery: A Landscape of Wales![]()
The Welsh landscape promoted by the tourist board is a known entity. Postcard photographers patrol its contours waiting for the rains to desist and the sun to peer out so that they can snap... Read more... |
Resonances at the Wallace Collection![]() It's an admirable project: to recast the interiors of stately homes as immersive artworks, a musical recital combined with sound installations designed to make the viewer look anew at their... Read more... |
Production Gallery: The Royal Ballet's Asphodel Meadows![]()
Johan Persson took the photographs for The Royal Ballet's world premiere of Liam Scarlett's Asphodel Meadows, which opened on 5 May 2010. Read theartsdesk's... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Maggi Hambling - Sea Sculptures and Paintings![]() To accompany theartsdesk Q&A with artist Maggi Hambling... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Grace Jones Portraits by Chris Levine![]()
One can hardly imagine the spiky dervish Grace Jones sitting still for a second, let alone remaining motionless long enough to have photographs (and plenty of them) taken for her portrait.... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser at the Royal Opera House![]() As co-directors of opera, Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser's fidelity to each other's artistic vision is one thing. Their devotion to Rossini is also relatively unusual. Their loyalty to and faith in... Read more... |
Design Gallery: The Art Nouveau Dacha![]() Vladimir Story's 1917 brochure for patterns for building Russia's traditional wooden country houses - called dachas - has been rescued from oblivion by the chance discovery of an ancient copy of it... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Sarnath Banerjee![]() The subversive artist and film-maker Sarnath Banerjee, credited with introducing the graphic novel to India, features in a London show, Royale With Cheese, at Aicon Gallery, 8 Heddon Street... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: John Angerson's English Journey![]() “Being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England.” Upon its publication 75 years ago, J B Priestley’s English Journey... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Henry Moore's Reclining Figures![]()
Henry Moore is said to have first encountered the image of the reclining figure in Paris in 1925 in a plaster cast of an ancient Mexican Toltec-Maya figure in the Trocadero Museum. It was to... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Gavin Bond, Idea Generation Gallery![]() Over the past couple of years, maverick photographer Gavin Bond has built up a contacts book that would be the envy of Rankin or Annie Leibovitz. He’s been shooting everyone who is anyone: subjects... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool![]() Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic is without doubt one of the year’s most enterprising and original exhibitions. Attempting to trace the impact on art of black cultures from... Read more... |
Movie Gallery: Océans![]() To accompany Anne Billson's review of Océans, the new documentary from the men behind... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Niall O'Brien, Art Work Space![]() Purists would have it that punk rock was but a brief explosion in first New York then London, and was all but spent by the end of 1977. Irish photographer Niall O'Brien, however, was born in 1979 and... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Exhibits from The Real Van Gogh![]()
This Saturday The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters opens at the Royal Academy of Arts - it is... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Sony World Photography Awards![]()
The annual Sony World Photography Awards began in 2007. They showcase the work of both professional and amateur photographers across genres which inclu de journalism, fashion, architecture,... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Ockham's Razor![]()
These photographs shows Ockham's Razor in performance. While there is a fierce kinetic energy to their... Read more... |
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