conceptual art
Yoko Ono: To The Light, Serpentine GalleryThursday, 21 June 2012
The Eurozone is in crisis and the American economy stagnating; Syria is self-destructing, the Arab Spring has stalled and climate change threatens the whole planet, yet Yoko Ono believes that “the world, now, is really turning towards the light”.In... Read more... |
Invisible: Art About the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward GalleryWednesday, 13 June 2012
In May 1958, Yves Klein invited the Parisian art world to the Galerie Iris Clert for the opening of his latest exhibition, which was entitled The Specialisation of the Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilised Pictorial Sensibility. Driven... Read more... |
Jamie Shovlin: Various Arrangements, Haunch of VenisonThursday, 19 April 2012
I come not to praise Jamie but to Shovl'im… Jamie Shovlin's new show of covers for unpublished books in the Fontana Modern Masters series would seem to have everything for the viewer who prides himself on his good taste: serialism, mathematics,... Read more... |
Damien Hirst, Tate ModernTuesday, 03 April 2012
How long will it take for the penny to finally drop and to know we’ve been had all along? Months? Years? Ten years? Twenty? Will it really take that long before we come to our senses, and to wonder at our own gullibility? I’m talking not of Damien... Read more... |
Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, Hayward GalleryThursday, 23 February 2012
As he readily acknowledges himself, Jeremy Deller can’t paint and he can’t draw, so he never went to art school. For many artists of his generation (he’s 46), this lack of traditionally based skills seems not to have presented a problem. But Deller... Read more... |
Museum Show Part 1, ArnolfiniWednesday, 28 September 2011
A 50th birthday is a landmark occasion. One has plenty to look back on, whilst still having much to look forward to. Plus there’s all that life experience to draw on. What’s not to feel positive about? In the case of a gallery that’s built up a... 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... |
theartsdesk in Reykjavík: Fanfare for the Harpa Concert HallSunday, 28 August 2011
After three days' motoring and clambering around the most awesome natural landscapes I've ever seen, how could a mere concert hall in a city the size of Cambridge begin to compare? Well, it helped that the façades in which that great visionary... Read more... |
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead..., Tate ModernFriday, 05 August 2011
For her latest project, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII, American photographer Taryn Simon spent four years searching out families the world over whose lives have been defined by circumstances largely beyond their control – not... Read more... |
Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery & Somerset HouseThursday, 12 May 2011
It is now 37 days since Ai Weiwei was detained at Beijing international airport by the Chinese authorities. His family and friends have heard nothing since. His lawyer, to whom under Chinese law he must have access, was arrested as well, and since... Read more... |
Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin, Do Not Abandon Me, Hauser & WirthThursday, 17 February 2011
Louise Bourgeois died last year at nearly 100, a revered figure: survivor of the Surrealist movement into the 21st century, a pioneer of autobiographical expression, whose fame came only late in life. Tracey Emin, by contrast, found fame early,... Read more... |
