Serpentine Gallery
Judy Chicago: Revelations, Serpentine Gallery review - art designed to change the worldFriday, 31 May 2024
Being a successful artist is not Judy Chicago’s primary goal. She abandoned that ambition six decades ago when the Los Angeles art world greeted her with hostility. Now she’s having the last laugh, though. At 84 she is being heaped with accolades,... Read more... |
Yinka Shonibare: Suspended States, Serpentine Gallery review - pure delightWednesday, 17 April 2024
Yinka Shonibare’s Serpentine Gallery exhibition opens with a piece of cloth twirling in the breeze; except that it’s a bronze sculpture probably weighing a ton or more – such is the power of art (pictured below right: detail of Wind... Read more... |
Barbara Kruger, Serpentine Gallery review - clever, funny and chilling installationsMonday, 05 February 2024
American artist Barbara Kruger started out as a graphic designer working in advertising, and it shows. Her sharp design skills and acute visual intelligence now produce funny, clever and thought provoking installations in which words and pictures... Read more... |
Grenfell by Steve McQueen, Serpentine Gallery review - a stirring memorial for the tower block infernoTuesday, 18 April 2023
The fire which engulfed Grenfell Tower in London’s North Kensington on 14 June, 2017, with a death toll of 72, is still under investigation. The dead were largely recent immigrants to the UK. The tragedy, it’s clear now, was caused by an unholy... Read more... |
Rose Wylie: Quack Quack, Serpentine Gallery - anarchy at 83Friday, 01 December 2017
Three years ago Rose Wylie won the prestigious John Moore’s Painting Prize. She was 80 years old and had been painting away in relative obscurity for many decades. You might suppose, then, that the prize was given in recognition of past... Read more... |
Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Serpentine GalleryFriday, 09 June 2017
The most popular exhibition of a living artist ever held at the Tate was David Hockney’s recent retrospective, which attracted 478,082 visitors. If Grayson Perry is to top that, as the title of his Serpentine Gallery show optimistically predicts,... Read more... |
Zaha Hadid, Serpentine GalleryMonday, 12 December 2016
It is appropriate that this exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s early drawings and paintings should be shown at the Serpentine’s Sackler Gallery, which adjoins the restaurant she designed in 2013. The white, curvilinear extension was one of the first... Read more... |
Alex Katz, Serpentine GallerySaturday, 11 June 2016
Black Brook, 2014, is sublime. Two bands of acid-green grass frame a horizontal band of deep-violet water that appears to have hidden depths. Dotted randomly over the darkness are clusters of light blobs; they could be floating leaves or reflections... Read more... |
Hilma Af Klint, Serpentine GallerySaturday, 05 March 2016
Celebrating the four ages of man, eight huge, semi-abstract paintings create a carnival atmosphere in the Serpentine’s central gallery. The freshness of Childhood is characterised by flowers, petals and stamens floating on a blue ground. The... Read more... |
Jimmie Durham, Serpentine GalleryMonday, 12 October 2015
The first thing you encounter is a ballot box bolted to the lid of a school desk; what or whom you might be voting for – apart from the hope of change – is not specified. In the eyes of Jimmie Durham, change is badly needed; in fact, most of the... Read more... |
Marina Abramović: 512 Hours, Serpentine GalleryTuesday, 10 June 2014
I’ll admit, there's a scene that made me well up during the excellent Marina Abramović biopic The Artist is Present. If you've seen it you’ll know the scene I mean – it’s where Ulay, Abramović’s former partner, in art and in life, takes the seat... Read more... |
Sturtevant: Leaps, Jumps and Bumps, Serpentine GallerySaturday, 29 June 2013
Her name sounds like a brand of cigarettes, and an aura of corporate anonymity seems remarkably apt for this American artist who specialises in replicating other people’s work and sampling clips from online video libraries. Borrowed from the BBC’s... Read more... |
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