Visual arts
OMA / Progress, Barbican Art GalleryMonday, 26 September 2011A major exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential archite ctural practices working today, founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975. Until 19 February, 2012 http://bit.ly/pPo1db Read more... |
Barbara Loftus: Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe, The Freud M useumMonday, 26 September 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... |
Grayson Perry: Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, British MuseumMonday, 26 September 2011Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry curates and shows newwork alongside objects selected from the British Museum's collection, in homage to the anonymous craftsman. Until 19 February, 2012 http://bit.ly /mCJAe8 Read more... |
Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of MoonlightMonday, 26 September 2011This touring exhibition of the Victorian painter is the first m ajor show of Grimshaw's work for over 30 years. It includes more than 60 pa intings from his earliest Pre-Raphaelite inspired landscapes to the Impress ionist style seascapes of his... Read more... |
Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1962 - 1982, Tate BritainMonday, 26 September 2011A survey of Flanagan's early works that position him as a key f igure in the development of British and international sculpture. The exhibi tion ends with Large Leaping Hare, 1982, which was a subject that was to preoccupy the artist until his... Read more... |
Private Eye: the first 50 years, Victoria & Albert MuseumMonday, 26 September 2011Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has chosen 50 of the best cartoon s that have graced the cover of the satirical investigate magazine. Illustr ation from Gerald Scarfe, Ralph Steadman and Willy Rushton among others. U ntil 8 January, 2012 http://bit.ly... Read more... |
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, V&AFriday, 23 September 2011
It took a long time for architects to embrace popular culture. I attended a talk at the Architectural Association in the mid 1970s, when someone (probably the architect Robert Venturi) waxed lyrical about shiny American diners and hot-dog... Read more... |
John Martin: Apocalypse, Tate BritainWednesday, 21 September 2011
John Martin is heaven. Well, as many of his contemporaries would have pointed out, John Martin is also hell, or The Last Judgement, or, as the Tate’s show title would have it, the Apocalypse at the very least. For John Martin was, after Turner, the... Read more... |
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal AcademyTuesday, 20 September 2011
A beguiling shadow play greets and enchants on arrival: the silhouettes of three ballerinas, each performing an arabesque, are cast upon the wall as you enter. The effect, as their softly delineated forms dip and slowly rotate, is mesmerising. It’s... 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... |
Charles Matton: Enclosures, All Visual ArtsMonday, 12 September 2011
There is nothing new, nor inherently artistic, about making miniature models. Otherwise everyone who's ever stuffed a small ship into a glass bottle would be in the National Gallery. (Yes, Yinka Shonibare's fourth plinth ship-in-a-bottle outside the... Read more... |
