Visual arts
The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-W ar Artists, Haunch of VenisionMonday, 12 December 2011Ten leading British postwar painters in an exhibition exploringtheir personal relationships with each other. Includes Francis Bacon, Luc ian Freud, Euan Uglow and William Coldstream Curated by Catherine Lampert.Until 18 February http://bit.ly/tVkhhf Read more... |
Santiago Sierra: Dedicated to the Workers and the Unemployed, Liss on GalleryMonday, 12 December 2011Retrospective of the controversial Spanish artist who addressesissues of exploitation of labour and the marginalisation of the poor. New works include the recently completed No Global Tour, a film documenting th e manufacture and transportation... Read more... |
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghFriday, 09 December 2011
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery has been transformed with a £7.6 million facelift. As a first-timer I confess I don’t have a clue what it looked like before, but I am assured it was dark and gloomy and had the air of a building cast aside in... Read more... |
A Rake Revisited: Henry Hudson at the Soane, Sir John Soane's Muse umTuesday, 06 December 2011Contemporary artist Henry Hudson reinvents, on a grand scale a nd in plasticine, Hogarth's eight-part work 'A Rake's Progress'. Until 28 January http://bit.ly/sClCYp Read more... |
theartsdesk in Florence: The British Are GoingTuesday, 06 December 2011
In the 1450s in Florence, Alberti was working on the facade of Santa Maria Novella, Donatello and Fra Filippo Lippi were active, while Leonardo was born in nearby village of Vinci. And the English established a diplomatic presence. It has continued... Read more... |
Turner Prize is won for the third time in a row by a Scottish artistTuesday, 06 December 2011
George Shaw might have been the popular favourite, but it was Martin Boyce who carried the vote to win this year’s Turner Prize. The 44-year-old artist from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, follows fast on the heels of two fellow Scots: Susan Philipsz... Read more... |
Mondrian II Nicholson: In Parallel, Courtauld GallerySaturday, 03 December 2011An exhibition which explores the two artists' profound belief i n the potential of abstract art to attain the highest aesthetic and spiritu al power. Mondrian and Nicholson were friends in the 1930s when the Dutch a rtist lived in England before... Read more... |
Sandra Lousada: Work and Performance, National Portrait GalleryFriday, 02 December 2011A display in the NPG's Bookshop gallery celebrating the 50-yearcareer of photographer Sandra Lousada. The display features key figures inliterature, film and fashion from the early 1960s, including actresses S arah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave, writer... Read more... |
Jane McAdam Freud: Lucian Freud My Father, Freud MuseumFriday, 02 December 2011Artist Jane McAdam Freud unveils a large-scale sculpture portra ying her father Lucian Freud, made in the months before he died. Until 4 M arch http://bit.ly/fLkGmQ Read more... |
Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Catterdrali, White Cube BermondseyFriday, 02 December 2011An exhibition whose title is loosely inspired by Fulcanelli's e soteric publication which claimed that the Gothic cathedrals of Europe had openly displayed the hidden code of Alchemy for over 700 years. The exhibit ion features large -scale... Read more... |
Dara Birnbaum, South London GalleryFriday, 02 December 2011The premier of American artist Dara Birnbaum's film Arabesque w hich reflects on two piano compositions, one by Robert Schumann for his wi fe Clara, the other composed by Clara for her husband. The exhibition alsofeatures earlier video work. Until... Read more... |
A Hankering after Ghosts, Dickens and the Supernatural, British LibraryWednesday, 30 November 2011
Well, if you haven’t yet realised that 2012 is Dickens Central, there’s no hope for you. The 200th anniversary of Dickens’s birth is still two months away, but Claire Tomalin’s biography has scampered out of the starting gate already, as has Robert... Read more... |
