Visual arts
Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, National GalleryThursday, 05 July 2012Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 features new work by contemporary ar tists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger in an unique collab oration with The Royal Ballet. The multi-arts project, part of the Cultura l Olympiad's London 2012 Festival,... Read more... |
Gary Hume: Flashback, Jerwood Gallery, HastingsThursday, 05 July 2012Hume was the winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997 and w as elected as a Royal Academician in 2001. This exhibition, organised by t he Arts Council, will feature a range of paintings and sculptures producedby the Turner Prize-nominated artist... Read more... |
Pertaining to Natural Things, Chelsea Physic GardenThursday, 05 July 2012A major outdoor exhibition at Chelsea Physic Garden presents mo numental sculptural works, ephemeral land art projects and delicate inte rventions by over 20 leading artists, including Annie Cattrell, Jo Coupe , Joe Currie, Judith Dean, Tessa... Read more... |
From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Royal AcademyThursday, 05 July 2012Showcasing major works from the Sterling and Francine Clark ArtInstitute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, this exhibition will illustrat e the Clark’s holdings of French 19th-century art, with particular emphasi s upon Impressionism. Paintings by... Read more... |
Bruce Lacey: Art's Great AdventurerWednesday, 04 July 2012
“Bruce Lacey has had this unbelievable career,” says the Turner prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller. “His is an alternative version of British art history - people didn't seem to know that Bruce has intersected with British history. I felt he deserves... Read more... |
Art Space to open in London's King's CrossMonday, 02 July 2012It may not quite be guerrilla art, but a new, temporary, and apparently edgy art venue is going to open its doors for the first time a week tomorrow (July 10) by the Regent’s Canal in London’s rapidly changing King’s Cross. Called “The Filling... Read more... |
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is PresentSaturday, 30 June 2012
For three months in the spring of 2010, New Yorkers were gripped by Abramovic fever. The mania owed its origins to a somewhat unlikely source – a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of a 63-year-old Serbian performance artist.... Read more... |
Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye, Tate ModernWednesday, 27 June 2012
Edvard Munch strikes a heroic pose. Buck naked, he’s pointing a sword at the sky – or perhaps that’s just a stick he’s picked up in the garden, where he’s surrounded by dense greenery as he stands with his arm raised in a taut diagonal. Perhaps he... Read more... |
Stonehenge Fire Garden, WiltshireTuesday, 26 June 2012Stonehenge Olympic Fire Garden, 10-12 July Part of the Cultur al Olympiad, Stonehenge is given a rare night-time opening to the public f or three nights in a transformation by fire, with fire sculptures and fire works created by French pyrotechnics... Read more... |
The Arts Desk wins Best Specialist Journalism Site of 2012Monday, 25 June 2012
The Arts Desk has been voted Specialist Journalism Site of 2012 at the Online Media Awards. In a celebratory dinner at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium recognising "the best and boldest of online news-based creativity and also the most original", The... Read more... |
Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, Dulwich Picture GalleryMonday, 25 June 2012
The first room of Andy Warhol: The Portfolios at Dulwich Picture Gallery made me regret coming. The second room made me never want to leave. The first has 10 of the Flowers and 10 of the Campbell's Soup Cans, four weedy sunsets and one Marilyn in... Read more... |
theartsdesk at Land's End: The Penzance ConventionSunday, 24 June 2012
Standing in Tate St Ives with the sun gleaming on the Atlantic, you wonder who they are, all these chilled, nonchalantly now people. Through the great curved window, the sun is setting over the barren headland of the Land’s End peninsular, the... Read more... |
