Visual arts
Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, Victoria & Albert MuseumWednesday, 08 September 2010
To mark Pope Benedict’s controversial visit to Britain next week, the V&A have mounted an exhibition devoted to four of the 10 tapestries Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel – the first time they’ve ever been seen in this country. Depicting... Read more... |
Gregor Schneider: Fotografie und Skulptur, Sadie Coles HQSunday, 05 September 2010
Few artists can creep you out like Gregor Schneider. His work is scary and it’s absurd. But even as you giggle nervously when confronted with its less than subtle deployment of shock-horror tactics, a more profound disquiet creeps up on you.... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Sculptor Cornelia ParkerFriday, 27 August 2010
Sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker is our fourth guest to choose some favourite books for holiday reading. Born in 1956, she is known in part for her suspended sculptures that appear to capture the moment of explosion, as well as for... Read more... |
The Chapman Brothers: Children's Art Commission, Whitechapel GalleryFriday, 27 August 2010
When Jake and Dinos Chapman first came to the attention of a wider public at the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition, their work came with a parental warning: a sign barring under-18s. After all, naked child mannequins sporting surprised-looking... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Over the Sea to Art Getaway IslandSunday, 22 August 2010
When it’s 33 degrees and rising, boarding a ferry in New York has to be a good plan. One of the newest and weirdest of the city’s watery destinations is Governors Island (no apostrophe - it was removed in 1783 when the British, who used it to house... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Fourth Plinth CommissionFriday, 20 August 2010
A playful, subversive mood dominates the shortlist for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth. Most of the six proposals, in what is a very strong shortlist, play on notions of British identity, probing themes of heroism, heritage and conquest. The models... Read more... |
The Museum of Stokes Croft, BristolWednesday, 18 August 2010
Bristolians were invited to make history last weekend. The city saw the opening of the Museum of Stokes Croft, a one-room cabinet of contemporary urban curiosities that includes fake neighbourhood relics and archaeological finds, an early Banksy T-... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: A Century Apart, James Ravilious & John Wheeley GutchSaturday, 14 August 2010
Life changes at such speed in cities that it seems as if all the world must move at the same pace. Photographs prove otherwise. Looking at the two portfolios of West Country photographs below, you could surely not readily believe that more than a... Read more... |
Romantics, Tate BritainThursday, 12 August 2010
Everyone likes a “lost treasure” story, a story where something missing for hundreds of years turns up in an unexpected place, bringing sudden riches to the lucky finder. In the 1970s, a purchaser of an old railway timetable found, tucked inside... Read more... |
Domesday, BBC Two/ Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, BBC FourTuesday, 10 August 2010
What was originally a coincidence of reviewing – two dispatches from the Dark Ages, Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons on BBC Four and Domesday on BBC Two – in fact turned into a remarkably instructive diptych of how and how not to make history... Read more... |
Futureproof: Scottish Photography Graduate Show, GlasgowTuesday, 10 August 2010
To Futureproof is to ensure that we don’t become technologically obsolete, but keep in touch with as yet undeveloped technologies and exploit those already in the ether. It’s an apt title for this exhibition of work by 16 graduates from the five... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Madrid: City of PhotographySunday, 08 August 2010
International photography festivals are rivalling rock festivals this summer - and rock festivals are featuring photographers. PhotoEspaña (PHE) Madrid beats the lot. Packed with surprise revelations, with central Madrid as the main stage, the... Read more... |
