Visual arts
Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes, Pace GalleryWednesday, 10 October 2012
Half-way through Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's tragic hero, Aschenbach, settles down on a beach to gaze out to the sea to "take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity". Aschenbach is suddenly returned... Read more... |
The Company of Strangers: How the Royal Academy Was FoundedTuesday, 09 October 2012
Since becoming Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts almost exactly five years ago, I have become increasingly interested in why it was established. In particular, I almost inevitably got interested in the so-called Laws which... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2012, Tate BritainTuesday, 02 October 2012
There are two films in the Turner Prize exhibition and taken together and watched end-to-end they last just under three hours. That sounds gruelling for an art exhibition, but they’re from the strongest two candidates on this year’s shortlist. And... Read more... |
William Klein + Daido Moriyama, Tate ModernSunday, 30 September 2012This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship betwee n the work of influential photographer and filmmaker William Klein, and th at of Daido Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the... Read more... |
Turner Prize, Tate BritainSunday, 30 September 2012A showcase of this year's shortlist featuring Spartacus Chetwyn d, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Prize. The winner is announced 3December. Until 6 January, 2013 http://bit.ly/OZoWB3 Read more... |
Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures, Serpentine GalleryFriday, 28 September 2012
On the evidence of this Serpentine exhibition of huge sculptures, small sculptures, photographs, drawings, watercolours and prints, the German artist Thomas Schütte is obsessed, but obsessed, with faces. It is billed as the first show to focus... Read more... |
Peter Doig, Michael Werner GalleryTuesday, 25 September 2012New paintings by Peter Doig in Michael Werner's new London gall ery. Until 22 December http://bit.ly/UorDkW Read more... |
Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures, Serpentine GalleryTuesday, 25 September 2012The first exhibition dedicated to the contemporary German artis t's photographic, sculptural and painted portraits. Until 18 November ht tp://bit.ly/KcSsnC Read more... |
The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, The Queen's GalleryTuesday, 25 September 2012This exhibition brings together over 100 works by the greatest Northern European artists of the period. Among the highlights are prints an d drawings by Albrecht Dürer, mythological paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and preparatory drawings by... Read more... |
Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain, British MuseumFriday, 21 September 2012
Alonso Berruguete, Vicente Carducho, Juan Antonio Conchillos y Falco and Pedro Machuca are hardly familiar names in the Anglophone art world, but their drawings are on view in a revelatory exhibition. The British Museum is showing nearly all its... Read more... |
Bronze, Royal AcademyMonday, 17 September 2012
A Dancing Satyr leaps into the air, his head thrown back in ecstasy. His alabaster eyes appear like two pinpoints of illumination in the dimly lit gallery. The bronze figure, which is the first work you encounter in an exhibition spanning 5,000... Read more... |
Punk on Show: Was England Dreaming?Monday, 17 September 2012
On the 35th anniversary of the year punk met the mainstream, it’s to be expected that retrospection and nostalgia are in the air. Television has had a go, albums are being reissued and old soldiers are telling their stories. By its very nature an... Read more... |
