Visual arts
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, Royal AcademyWednesday, 18 January 2012
These are, we are told, David Hockney's landscape works, and in that they depict the outdoors - early Grand Canyons and LA scenes, Yorkshire from the Nineties to now - that is correct. As a description, however, it comes nowhere near encapsulating... Read more... |
Scott’s Last Expedition, Natural History MuseumWednesday, 18 January 2012
It’s safe to say that the diary of Tryggve Gran does not capture the mood of this centenary exhibition. “This life is of little interest," he wrote; "one day is just as monotonous as the next.” Gran was the Norwegian hired by Captain Scott to teach... Read more... |
Art Gallery: London Art Fair 2012Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Featuring over 100 galleries specialising in modern and contemporary British art, the London Art Fair is a January highlight for those who prefer a more relaxed atmosphere to that offered by the international VIP frenzy of Frieze. From the great... Read more... |
Gary Hume: The Indifferent Owl, White Cube Hoxton and Mason's YardTuesday, 17 January 2012New body of paintings and sculpture by Gary Hume, including hi s series The Paradise Paintings, which are large-scale works featuring theheads of birds. Ends 25 February http://bit.ly/wMFNX0 Read more... |
Hanne Darboven, Camden Arts CentreMonday, 16 January 2012A survey by the German artist Hanne Darboven which features a n umber of her large scale serial works focusing on the passage and structuri ng of time. These vast installations are formed of hand drawn notations andnumbers, musical scores and texts... Read more... |
The Underbelly Project: ParisSunday, 15 January 2012
Witnesses will have been puzzled. In a southern suburb of Paris, a group of maybe 16 figures trudge with purpose along the pavement at the witching hour of half past four in the morning. Some are carrying rucksacks. We are mostly male. Mostly... Read more... |
Hanne Darboven, Camden Arts CentreThursday, 12 January 2012A survey by the German artist Hanne Darboven which features a n umber of her large scale serial works focusing on the passage and structuri ng of time. These vast installations are formed of hand drawn notations andnumbers, musical scores and texts... Read more... |
The Arts Desk / London Art Fair art debateThursday, 12 January 2012But What Does It Mean?... Read more... |
2011: Where the Hell Was Now?Monday, 02 January 2012
2011 was a year when now was difficult to find. The YBA/heroic monetarist era was definitively over – though Tracey Emin was accorded a far better retrospective than she deserved at the Hayward (see image below right). Yet whatever will be replacing... Read more... |
2011: The British Are ClimbingSaturday, 31 December 2011
My Top 10 movies of 2011, in order, are: Mysteries of Lisbon, Melancholia, Meek’s Cutoff, A Dangerous Method, Aurora, Hugo, The Princess of Montpensier, City of Life and Death, The Descendants, ... Read more... |
2011: From Russia - With Love?Saturday, 31 December 2011
It took a relatively little-noticed television documentary, Vlad’s Army, broadcast in Channel 4’s Unreported World strand to confirm that theartsdesk has a readership in Russia. Peter Oborne’s film (the presenter pictured below) caught the pro-... Read more... |
2011: Car parks, Curtains and ConsidineThursday, 29 December 2011
In a year when eyes turned to London for the riots, the budget cuts and the hacked phones, there seemed to be a fair amount of middle England portrayed by British creatives. Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork’s London Road at the National retold 2006’s... Read more... |
