Visual arts
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin, Imperial War MuseumMonday, 17 October 2011
Armed American soldiers stand in the stone window frames of a ruined building in Berlin, curious and disturbing echoes of those classical statues that so often were used to add portentous significance to a facade; but here in a 1961 photograph by... Read more... |
Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist ApartFriday, 14 October 2011
My relationship with the artist Brian Clarke, the subject of my forthcoming film, goes back a long way: when I first filmed him for a documentary I made for BBC Two in 1993 - a film about windows as symbols and metaphors in the series The... Read more... |
Frieze Art Fair 2011: Emotion under the IronyThursday, 13 October 2011
Every year the art lovers of the world assemble in London and burn themselves out during Frieze Week - the fairs, the galleries, the parties - and (if they're anything like me) they vow to take it a bit easier next year. It never happens. The entire... Read more... |
Tacita Dean, FILM, Tate ModernWednesday, 12 October 2011
Tate Modern’s lofty Turbine Hall is dominated by a giant CinemaScope screen flipped on its side so it becomes 42ft high and resembles a lift shaft or cathedral window. Instead of angels, saints or sinners, though, the starring role in Tacita Dean’s... Read more... |
Anri Sala, Serpentine GalleryTuesday, 11 October 2011A cycle of films by the Albanian artist which explore sound's r elationship to the image. Until 20 November http://bit.ly/pYLrb3 Read more... |
Barbara Loftus: Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe, The Freud M useumTuesday, 11 October 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... |
Structures & Absence, White Cube BermondseyTuesday, 11 October 2011This inaugural exhibition of White Cube's 3rd London gallery ta kes a fresh look at contemporary abstraction. Artists include Andreas Gursk y, Gary Hume, Agnes Martin and Gabriel Orozco. Until 26 November Read more... |
Anri Sala, Serpentine GallerySunday, 09 October 2011
A single snare drum greets you on entry to the Serpentine Gallery; there’s no one playing it, yet in response to an inaudible cue, the drumsticks begin to vibrate autonomously. Meanwhile on a nearby wall, a pair of blue rubber gloves revolves slowly... Read more... |
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British MuseumSaturday, 08 October 2011
You might think that a sharp-talking, cross-dressing potter-artist with a teddy bear obsession would present a challenge to the British public. Not a bit of it. Grayson Perry is music hall, he’s pantomime – there’s even a touch of Brideshead in... Read more... |
Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate ModernFriday, 07 October 2011
In recent years it seems we have seen an awful lot of Gerhard Richter. There have been three major exhibitions in London well within the last seven or eight years. One is hardly complaining, since there is always a demand to see “the world’s most... Read more... |
Miracles and Charms, Wellcome CollectionThursday, 06 October 2011
Ex-voto paintings are a tradition in Mexico, an offering of gratitude to God and the saints for answered prayers, row after row of them lining the walls of Mexican churches, testifying to the congregations’ devotion, and to the enduring link between... Read more... |
Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage, Hayward GalleryTuesday, 04 October 2011
In 1997 the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist produced one of the most delightful videos ever made, and it won her the Biennale. Ever is Over All shows a young woman skipping down a city street gaily smashing car windows with a red-hot poker; and... Read more... |
