Visual arts
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Phot ography, Queen's GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011Photographs taken by Herbert George Ponting during Scott's ill- fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, in which five of its men perished.Also includes Frank Hurley's photographs taken during Shackleton's explora tions on Endurance from 1914-16.... Read more... |
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Dulwich Pictu re GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011Featuring some of Canada's most famous landscape paintings, in cluding bold and vibrant works by Tom Thomson. Until 8 January, 2012 http ://bit.ly/p9lYE6 Read more... |
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, Modern Art OxfordFriday, 28 October 2011An exhibition of works on paper by celebrated British artist Gr aham Sutherland. Curated by Turner Prize-nominee George Shaw, An Unfinishe d World is an exploration of Sutherland's lesser-known works, concentratin g on his early Welsh landscapes... Read more... |
Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth GalleriesFriday, 28 October 2011The Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy is showing at both H auser... Read more... |
Paul Noble, Gagosian GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011An exhibition that marks the culmination of Noble's monumental 15-year drawing project - the meticulous depiction of a fictional city call ed Nobson Newtown. Until 17 December http://www.gagosian.com/upcoming/ Read more... |
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, Queen's GalleryThursday, 27 October 2011
Many of the images will be all too familiar. Captain Scott writing a diary in his quarters. Three of Shackleton’s men scrubbing below decks. The Endurance lit up in the long polar night. The ice cave shaped like an italic teardrop and shot from... Read more... |
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, Royal AcademyWednesday, 26 October 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so ambivalent about a show, and so strongly both pro and con. The pros first, then. This is an astonishing, revelatory exhibition of avant-garde art and architecture in the Soviet Union in the brief but hectic period from... Read more... |
Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeTuesday, 25 October 2011
The home, and women’s place within it, gained considerable importance for artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Artists such as Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, Nicholaes Maes and Gerrit Dou are among those who placed women at the centre of the well-... Read more... |
I Never Tell Anybody Anything: The Life and Art of Edward Burra, BBC FourTuesday, 25 October 2011
What a relief: Andrew Graham-Dixon got the job of presenting this documentary on one of my favourite British 20th-century artists. If it had been Waldemar Januszczak (sometimes interesting but too gimmick-laden and shouty) or Matthew Collings (... Read more... |
BIBLE story: artist inserts himself into the New TestamentFriday, 21 October 2011
It’s a shame that Joseph Steele’s BIBLE didn’t come a week later. Halloween would have been a far better backdrop to the haphazard heathenism that the evening entailed.Presentation, exhibition – it is difficult to define the events which Steele... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2011, Baltic, GatesheadFriday, 21 October 2011
The Turner Prize has headed to the North East. It’ll be back in London next year, thence to Derry for 2013. Tate Britain plan to host the prize biennially, with a regional public gallery presenting it in the years in-between. This must be hailed as... Read more... |
Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's FactoryThursday, 20 October 2011
Who needs to hear or see anything more of the creepily manipulative world of Andy Warhol’s Factory? We’ve seen the films (well, bits of them); we bought the album (the one with the banana on the front); we’ve bought and dispensed with the images (in... Read more... |
