Visual arts
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Ken Russell, 1927-2011Monday, 28 November 2011
In 2006 the thatched house in Lymington on the Hampshire coast which had been the home of Ken Russell (b 1927) for 30 years burned down. All of the director’s original film scripts, including Women in Love, The Devils and Tommy, were destroyed. So... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Ken Russell - A RetrospectiveMonday, 28 November 2011
An exhibition of Ken Russell's photographs, taken in the 1950s, spirits you back to a London still in recovery from the trauma of war. And yet seen through the prism of Russell's lively eye, always on the look-out for mischief and absurdity, an era... Read more... |
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary ArtsMonday, 28 November 2011
In his catalogue essay, Peter Osborne discusses the meaning of epithets such as “new” and “contemporary” when applied to current art, yet no one in this year’s New Contemporaries seems to be striving to make work that is “new”, “different”, “radical... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Egyptian and Nubian Galleries, Ashmolean MuseumFriday, 25 November 2011
The Ashmolean Museum opens the doors to its Egyptian and Nubian galleries tomorrow and in these six refurbished rooms you’ll be able to see one of the greatest collections (among some 40,000 antiquities) outside Cairo. Designed by the architect Rick... Read more... |
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence, ICAWednesday, 23 November 2011Bringing together the work of recent Fine Art graduates across the UK. The 40 emerging artists work in a range of media. Until 15 January http://bit.ly/nb9bFd Read more... |
L.S Lowry, Richard Green GalleryWednesday, 23 November 2011Paintings from the Fifties and Sixties by the Lancashire artist .Until 17 December http://bit.ly/s8nsg4 Read more... |
Performing Medicine: The Anatomy SeasonMonday, 21 November 2011
Do you think you could identify the range of facial expressions worn by Eleanor Crook’s strangely animated wax figure models? A glimmer of a woozy, lopsided grin, perhaps? The suggestion of a drunken leer? Possibly not, for the repertoire of facial... Read more... |
Performing Medicine: The Anatomy SeasonMonday, 21 November 2011A series of events, performances, workshops and talks bringin g together art and medical science. The programme is supported by the Wellc ome Trust and presented by Clod Ensemble. Until 10 December http://www.per formingmedicine.com/ Read more... |
John Maine: After Cosmati, Royal AcademyMonday, 21 November 2011After Cosmati is a new environmental sculpture installation by John Maine. The artist is best known for making large outdoor sculptures instone which form relationships with and are inspired by the surrounding la ndscape. His work utilises simple... Read more... |
New Egyptian Galleries, Ashmolean MuseumSaturday, 19 November 2011The opening of six new galleries for the collections of AncientEgypt and Nubia (present day Sudan). This second phase of major redevelopm ent redisplays the world-renowned Egyptian collections to exhibit objects t hat have been in storage since WWII... Read more... |
LUMIERE, DurhamFriday, 18 November 2011
It would be hard to say which was the more breathtaking: a sunny autumn morning walk around the woody-banked loop of the River Wear, looking up at Durham’s monumental Norman cathedral from every perspective, or seeing the great edifice illuminated... Read more... |
Paul McCarthy: The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship, Hauser & WirthFriday, 18 November 2011
Until recently, on YouTube, you could watch Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley’s Heidi (1992), one of the funniest and most transgressive videos ever made. In a Swiss chalet, the children Heidi and Peter are being “educated” by their abusive grandfather... Read more... |
