Visual arts
About The Arts DeskFriday, 09 September 2011The Arts Desk, or theartsdesk.com, is a website created in 2009 by leading British professional arts journalists and critics to offset the decline in supply of arts coverage in the print media where most of them worked. Launched on 9 September 2009... Read more... |
Rothko in Britain, Whitchapel GalleryThursday, 08 September 2011The Whitechapel Gallery brings to life the Rothko exhibition he ld at the gallery in 1961. Until 26 February http://bit.ly/ng44nR Read more... |
Miracles and Charms, Wellcome Collection, LondonThursday, 08 September 2011Miracles and charms present two shows: Infinitas Gracias: Mexic an Miracle Paintings, the first major display of Mexican votive paintings outside Mexico; and Felicity Powell: Charmed Lives, an exhibition of unse en London amulets from Henry... Read more... |
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990, Victoria & AlbertMuseumThursday, 08 September 2011Indepth survey of art, design and architecture exploring the i deas that challenged the orthodoxies of Modernism, where simplicity and pu rity gave way to exuberant colour, bold patterns, artificial-looking surf aces, parody and historical quotation... Read more... |
Degas and The Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal AcademyThursday, 08 September 2011Featuring around 85 paintings, sculptures, pastels, drawingsand prints, as well as photography, an exhibition tracing the developmen t of Degas' ballet imagery, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s t o the expressiveness of his final years.... Read more... |
Nathalie Djurberg with music by Hans Berg: A World of Glass, Camde n Arts CentreThursday, 08 September 2011Four animated 'claymation' films by contemporary Swedish artistNathalie Djurberg exploring themes of sexual discovery, desire and the pr ecarious nature of rites-of-passage. Presented amongst an immersive install ation of glass-like objects, these... Read more... |
Phyllida Barlow: RIG, Hauser & Wirth, LondonThursday, 08 September 2011
Every surface in my house is covered in plaster and brick dust, and wood, sand, cement, plaster and wire mesh are strewn all over the place. Furniture, carpets and pictures are covered in dust sheets and piled into two sealed rooms. You’ve guessed... Read more... |
Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario, Artangel in Hoxton, N1Wednesday, 07 September 2011
What are the most common responses to a work of contemporary art? I can think of two: “A six-year-old could have done that” (feel free to substitute “I” or “anyone”) and “But what does it actually mean?” Ryan Gander is an artist who is rather... Read more... |
Q&A/Gallery: Photographer Rich HardcastleTuesday, 06 September 2011
From Edinburgh to London and back, via Tatooine and Port Talbot, Rich Hardcastle has photographed playwrights and magicians, burlesque dancers and rugby captains, and regularly adorned the covers of The Big Issue, FHM and The Sunday Times Culture... Read more... |
How Manga Comics Became A DanceTuesday, 06 September 2011
A new production opens tonight at Sadler's Wells based on the graphic novels of Osamu Tezuka, Japan's master of manga art. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and composer Nitin Sawhney shared a love of comics as a boy that turned into the more... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Corinne Day - The FaceSunday, 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 less than 10K. In the Nineties, the decade that... Read more... |
Frans Hals at the Metropolitan Museum, New YorkMonday, 29 August 2011
If one comes away with any certainty from the New York exhibition Frans Hals at the Metropolitan Museum (until 10 October) it is that the Golden Age Dutch master (1582/3-1666) keenly understood and sympathised with his fellow human beings. Whether... Read more... |
