contemporary art
Art: theartsdesk at Manchester International Festival 2013Sunday, 07 July 2013
I’m watching someone with a mic pacing the linking bridge on the second floor of the Arndale Shopping Centre. He’s repeating the same phrase over and over again, which he’ll do for the next 20 or so minutes. “We’re souls refreshed,” I think it is.... Read more... |
Cornelia Parker, Frith Street GallerySunday, 09 June 2013
Cornelia Parker came to prominence with various acts of destruction/resurrection. Some of the most famous examples include a blown-up garden shed in Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991, the charred remains of churches in Mass (Colder Darker... Read more... |
Helen Chadwick, Richard SaltounTuesday, 21 May 2013
It's 17 years since Helen Chadwick died without warning of heart failure at the tragically early age of 42 and nine years since the Barbican staged a retrospective of her work. Time, then, for a reappraisal and this small but beautifully presented... Read more... |
Gallery: Art Projects and The Catlin Guide at the London Art FairMonday, 14 January 2013
The London Art Fair may not have the international heft or VIP glamour of Frieze, but for 25 years it’s been the place to see and buy the best of British modern art. While the main fair features 100 established galleries – including Browse and Derby... Read more... |
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Wales, CardiffFriday, 30 November 2012
An award for artists whose work engages with "social reality, lived experience and the human condition" has been won by a Mexican forensic technician whose works deals intimately with her country’s brutal drug wars. Britain’s most valuable art award... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2012, Tate BritainTuesday, 02 October 2012
There are two films in the Turner Prize exhibition and taken together and watched end-to-end they last just under three hours. That sounds gruelling for an art exhibition, but they’re from the strongest two candidates on this year’s shortlist. And... Read more... |
Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures, Serpentine GalleryFriday, 28 September 2012
On the evidence of this Serpentine exhibition of huge sculptures, small sculptures, photographs, drawings, watercolours and prints, the German artist Thomas Schütte is obsessed, but obsessed, with faces. It is billed as the first show to focus... Read more... |
Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less NowThursday, 06 September 2012
Lindsay Seers is one of the most exciting artists to have emerged in Britain over the last 10 years. Preoccupied with big philosophical questions, her work explores notions of truth, memory, imagination and history. Nowhere Less Now, commissioned by... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Kiev: The International Biennale for Contemporary ArtMonday, 06 August 2012
Giving his press conference speech at the opening of Kiev’s first international art biennale, David Elliott, the seasoned British curator charged with its organisation, looked exhausted, though far from triumphant and more than a little irate. “It’s... Read more... |
Liza Lou, White Cube HoxtonMonday, 23 April 2012
There was something perverse about the opening of Liza Lou’s show at White Cube in Hoxton Square on a wet Thursday evening. It was as quiet as I’ve ever known it inside, while outside, barred from drinking among Lou’s fragile works, a throng of... 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: Genius or Con Artist?Sunday, 01 April 2012
As Damien Hirst’s Tate retrospective looms large on the horizon, the million-dollar question is whether the work has withstood the test of time. Will exciting and provocative sculptures like the pickled shark, which became an icon of Brit Art the... Read more... |
