Visual arts
Mariko Mori: Rebirth, Burlington Gardens, Royal AcademyWednesday, 12 December 2012
The Royal Academy’s spacious white galleries at Burlington Gardens are flooded with mystic light and filled with New Age baubles. You are bathed in a trippy purple haze as you enter one gallery which contains a giant glowing pod. The translucent pod... Read more... |
Carving in BritainTuesday, 11 December 2012Read more... |
William Burroughs: All Out Of Time and Into Space, October GalleryMonday, 10 December 2012
October Gallery first mounted a show of William Burroughs’ paintings in 1988, soon after the writer had published The Western Lands, the last novel in his final trilogy. More books would come – on lemurs, pirates, Madagascar, cats, dreams – but no... Read more... |
Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, Fine Art SocietySunday, 09 December 2012
Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now is an accurate but unalluring title for what is a seminal show. The Fine Art Society is one of the oldest commercial galleries in Britain, founded in 1876 and still in its original building. Due to this... Read more... |
A Voyage Round my Father at the Freud MuseumSunday, 09 December 2012
What would Sigmund Freud say to newcomers infiltrating his priceless collection of Greek, Chinese and Egyptian antiquities? His study on the ground floor of 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, where Freud and his family lived after fleeing the Nazis... Read more... |
Francesco Clemente, Blain SouthernWednesday, 05 December 2012
The Neapolitan Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 into a patrician Italian family, the son of a judge. He studied classics in school and architecture in Rome, became a photographer, and then turned, as a fine art autodidact, to painting and drawing... Read more... |
Opinion: Turner Prize 2012 - the year of film artTuesday, 04 December 2012
Unusually for a Turner Prize, or for contemporary art generally for that matter, it was the year that film outshone other media. Paul Noble may have initially been the popular, and the bookies' favourite, but as technically impressive as his... Read more... |
Jean Dubuffet/Celia Paul and Gwen John, Pallant House Gallery, Ch ichesterSaturday, 01 December 2012Read more... |
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Wales, CardiffFriday, 30 November 2012
An award for artists whose work engages with "social reality, lived experience and the human condition" has been won by a Mexican forensic technician whose works deals intimately with her country’s brutal drug wars. Britain’s most valuable art award... Read more... |
Jean Dubuffet/ Gwen John and Celia Paul, Pallant House Gallery, ChichesterTuesday, 27 November 2012
Pallant House Gallery is an extraordinary hybrid, an elaborate and magnificent early 18th-century town house on a narrow Chichester street in the heart of the city, with a soberly elegant extension by Colin St John Wilson (2006) which houses one of... Read more... |
Death: A Self-Portrait, Wellcome CollectionSunday, 25 November 2012
Death terrifies and fascinates in equal measure: we fear both the journey and the void, but can’t help but poke and prod its weary carcass. That’ll be us soon, as sure as taxes. The promise of eternal life offers to take out death’s sting, and one... Read more... |
William Turnbull, 1922-2012Friday, 16 November 2012
William Turnbull was a Dundee shipyard engineer’s son who became a highly respected fixture on the London art scene for over six decades, principally as a sculptor, but also as painter and printmaker. While he never quite became a household name,... Read more... |
