Visual arts
The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso, The Courtauld G alleryMonday, 26 September 2011The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collectio ns of Spanish drawings outside Spain , ranging from the 16th to the 20th c entury.A selection of 40 of the finest and most representative have been ch osen for this exhibition,... Read more... |
OMA / Progress, Barbican Art GalleryMonday, 26 September 2011A major exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential archite ctural practices working today, founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975. Until 19 February, 2012 http://bit.ly/pPo1db Read more... |
Barbara Loftus: Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe, The Freud M useumMonday, 26 September 2011A provocative cycle of artworks prompted by the recollections o f the artist's mother Hildegard, who fled from Germany to England as a Jew ish refugee in 1939. The story is told through a series of paintings and wo rks on paper, contextualised by... Read more... |
Grayson Perry: Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British MuseumMonday, 26 September 2011Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry curates and shows newwork alongside objects selected from the British Museum's collection, in homage to the anonymous craftsman. Until 19 February, 2012 http://bit.ly /mCJAe8 Read more... |
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, V&AFriday, 23 September 2011
It took a long time for architects to embrace popular culture. I attended a talk at the Architectural Association in the mid 1970s, when someone (probably the architect Robert Venturi) waxed lyrical about shiny American diners and hot-dog... Read more... |
John Martin: Apocalypse, Tate BritainWednesday, 21 September 2011
John Martin is heaven. Well, as many of his contemporaries would have pointed out, John Martin is also hell, or The Last Judgement, or, as the Tate’s show title would have it, the Apocalypse at the very least. For John Martin was, after Turner, the... Read more... |
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal AcademyTuesday, 20 September 2011
A beguiling shadow play greets and enchants on arrival: the silhouettes of three ballerinas, each performing an arabesque, are cast upon the wall as you enter. The effect, as their softly delineated forms dip and slowly rotate, is mesmerising. It’s... Read more... |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 40 Years, 12 Exhibitions, Annely Juda Fine ArtSunday, 18 September 2011
A retrospective of an artist’s work is not usually a history of a working relationship, but in the case of Christo, this impressive exhibition of works from the past 40 years also marks two crucial partnerships: with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who was... Read more... |
Richard Hamilton, 1922-2011Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Hard on the heels of the death of Lucian Freud comes the departure of another British art great, an artist who was Freud’s exact contemporary but who seems to belong in a different aesthetic universe – Richard Hamilton. While he was the more... Read more... |
Charles Matton: Enclosures, All Visual ArtsMonday, 12 September 2011
There is nothing new, nor inherently artistic, about making miniature models. Otherwise everyone who's ever stuffed a small ship into a glass bottle would be in the National Gallery. (Yes, Yinka Shonibare's fourth plinth ship-in-a-bottle outside the... Read more... |
Rothko in Britain, Whitechapel GallerySunday, 11 September 2011
Exhibitions with titles appended "in Britain" or "and Britain" tend to be the kiss of death: indicating concentration on a brief and insignificant visit, on the subject’s impact on British art or – even worse – the influence of local collectors on... Read more... |
Power of Making, Victoria and Albert MuseumFriday, 09 September 2011
Hands on! Power of Making has it all: one of the most surprising and exciting collections of contemporary stuff on view for many a while. Some is functional, from coffins to bicycles, wine caskets, guns, bespoke shoes. Some would not be out of... Read more... |
