Visual arts
Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel GalleryWednesday, 01 February 2012The first major retrospective of Gillian Wearing's internationa lly acclaimed photographs and films. Fascinated by how people present thems elves in front of the camera, the Turner Prize-winning artist explores ide as of personal identity through... Read more... |
The private space of Lucian Freud revealedWednesday, 01 February 2012
Pallant House in Chichester has just inaugurated the series of Lucian Freud exhibitions this season which have have now become memorial commemorations since the artist’s death last July. Freud’s life and studio have taken on a mythic quality,... Read more... |
Turner and the Elements / Hamish Fulton: Walk, Turner ContemporaryMonday, 30 January 2012
Turner and the Elements is a visual joy and an intellectual pleasure. The backbone of the selection is Turner’s genuine engagement with the scientists of the day. The argument is that he amalgamated the traditional segregation of the... Read more... |
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination, Royal AcademyThursday, 26 January 2012Until 17 June. An exhibition exploring how the buildings of thegreat English Baroque architect, sparked the imaginations of generations of architects, artists and writers. Information: http://bit.ly/yJRG9b Read more... |
Johan Zoffany, Royal AcademyThursday, 26 January 2012An exhibition exploring the work of the Frankfurt-born 18th-cen tury artist who moved to London in 1760 and depicted Georgian society at co urt, at leisure and at play. The exhibition will feature oil paintings, a nd a selection of drawings and... Read more... |
Yayoi Kusama, Tate ModernThursday, 26 January 2012A series of immersive environments by the Japanese artist who h as developed an intense body of work based on repeating patterns. Kusama's work encompasses painting, sculpture, collage, installation, film, per formance and 'happenings'. Until 5... Read more... |
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate BritainThursday, 26 January 2012An exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migr ation. It features artists from Van Dyck, Whistler and Mondrian to Steve M cQueen and Francis Alys and traces not only the movement of artists, but t he circulation of art and ideas.... Read more... |
Turner and the Elements / Hamish Fulton: Walk, Turner ContemporaryThursday, 26 January 2012'Turner and the Elements' brings together 88 work by JMW Turnerfrom the Tate's collection, many featuring Margate and the north Kent Coa st. The exhibition focuses on the theme of the elements in the artist's wor k and is divided into five sections... Read more... |
Jane McAdam Freud: Lucian Freud My Father, Freud MuseumThursday, 26 January 2012
In one small room of the Freud Museum, which was once the home of Sigmund in the last year of his life, are the works Jane McAdam Freud made in the final months of her father’s life. Below an imposing photograph of Freud the elder, the progenitor of... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Top DeckSunday, 22 January 2012
In popular myth, Margaret Thatcher reportedly said that any man still travelling by bus after the age of 30 could consider himself a failure. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal, but it stuck in the public consciousness because it sounded like... Read more... |
Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude, National GallerySaturday, 21 January 201214 March - 5 June An exhibition which examines the influence of the 17th-century landscapist Claude on Turner and compares closely relat ed works by the two master-painters of light. Information: http://www.na tionalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/... Read more... |
theartsdesk Debate: But What Does It Mean? + Can Art Still Shock?Friday, 20 January 2012
The latest in the live events staged by theartsdesk aims to shed light on controversies and myths about the value and purpose of contemporary visual art. Taking place at the heart of the London Art Fair, where more than 100 galleries will present... Read more... |
