Visual arts
Art of Change, Hayward GalleryFriday, 07 September 2012The first major exhibition to focus on contemporary installatio n and performance art from China brings together the work of some of the mo st innovative artists from the 1980s to today. Until 9 December http://bit .ly/P89Nzw Read more... |
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War MuseumFriday, 07 September 2012Cecil Beaton's glamorous photographs of royalty and celebritiesprojected him to fame but less well-known is his work as a wartime photogr apher. Commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1940, Beaton was thelongest serving high-profile... Read more... |
Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less NowThursday, 06 September 2012
Lindsay Seers is one of the most exciting artists to have emerged in Britain over the last 10 years. Preoccupied with big philosophical questions, her work explores notions of truth, memory, imagination and history. Nowhere Less Now, commissioned by... Read more... |
Opinion: Who needs a top photography prize which champions non-photographers?Tuesday, 04 September 2012
Last night, someone who’s never professionally held a camera won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize at the Photographers’ Gallery. John Stezaker is a collagist. Since the Seventies he’s been slicing found photographic images, often of... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Tripoli: Photographing a RevolutionSunday, 26 August 2012
The most striking thing about the first photographic exhibition to specifically address post-revolution Libya is that there is no blood. Libya: A Nation Reborn is situated in the marbled ballroom of Tripoli’s five-star Corinthia Hotel – a long way... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Philadelphia: In the house of an American MediciSunday, 19 August 2012
MoMa and the Met, the Whitney and the Guggenheim – all very fine, but if you crave something different when in NYC, it’s worth braving Penn Station’s circles of hell to get a train to Philadelphia (takes just over an hour) to visit the mind-boggling... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Johannesburg: Black Diamonds at the Wits MuseumSaturday, 11 August 2012
The new Wits Museum in Johannesburg is located in an old Shell petrol station and stands on the corner behind a vast glass frontage. The winner of the 2012 VISI architecture award, it is big, akin to the Guggenheim in its sense of architectural... Read more... |
Ai Weiwei: Never SorryFriday, 10 August 2012
Every year, FHM produces its 100 sexiest women of the year list. It follows a simple formula, since sexiness, as determined by the magazine’s readers, is predicated on fame – a particular type of fleeting, red-top tabloid fame. So this year, top of... Read more... |
Edinburgh Art Festival: From Symbolists to ColouristsWednesday, 08 August 2012
East coast haar seeping into sun-drenched streets – familiar Edinburgh monuments disappearing dreamlike under blankets of mist, vibrant colour draining from the landscape as the city transformed into its more usual symphony in grey. The dramatic... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Kiev: The International Biennale for Contemporary ArtMonday, 06 August 2012
Giving his press conference speech at the opening of Kiev’s first international art biennale, David Elliott, the seasoned British curator charged with its organisation, looked exhausted, though far from triumphant and more than a little irate. “It’s... Read more... |
Intimate Exposure: Marilyn Monroe 50 Years OnSunday, 05 August 2012
It’s 50 years since Marilyn Monroe died alone on the night of August 4, 1962, from swallowing too many sleeping pills. The sad story soon became the stuff of legend. When they found her, she was still slumped over the telephone receiver; she had... Read more... |
Eames: The Architect and the PainterThursday, 02 August 2012
A friend of mine has an Eames lounge chair that he treats with enormous reverence and claims is the comfiest seat ever made. I simply don’t get it; with its bent plywood shell and black leather upholstery, this 1956 American design classic looks to... Read more... |
