Visual arts
Yoko Ono: To The Light, Serpentine GalleryThursday, 21 June 2012
The Eurozone is in crisis and the American economy stagnating; Syria is self-destructing, the Arab Spring has stalled and climate change threatens the whole planet, yet Yoko Ono believes that “the world, now, is really turning towards the light”.In... Read more... |
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings, Courtauld GalleryWednesday, 20 June 2012
They’re all here - well, most of them - the superstars of official art history. You would never get all these artists in one show if it were a painting exhibition, and it’s thrilling to see them cheek-by-jowl on the gallery walls. Drawing is widely... Read more... |
After Munch: Norway’s Edvard Munch-influenced artists in LondonMonday, 18 June 2012Tate Modern’s Edvard Munch exhibition, The Modern Eye, opens on 28 June. Complementing this, the new London gallery ArtEco’s inaugural exhibition After Munch showcases three contemporary Norwegian artists inspired by Munch. Next year, the 150th... Read more... |
Into Orbit: The Culture Show Special, BBC TwoSunday, 17 June 2012
What a mismatch of ambitions was unearthed in this Culture Show special on the ArcelorMittal Orbit. Boris Johnson admitted that he’d wanted slides on it, joking heartily that “there’s nothing too vulgar for me”, whilst Anish Kapoor wished for it to... Read more... |
Invisible: Art About the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward GalleryWednesday, 13 June 2012
In May 1958, Yves Klein invited the Parisian art world to the Galerie Iris Clert for the opening of his latest exhibition, which was entitled The Specialisation of the Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilised Pictorial Sensibility. Driven... Read more... |
A planetarium artwork celebrating the Transit of VenusWednesday, 06 June 2012To coincide with the Transit of Venus, the rarest of astronomical phenomena, planetariums from around the world are hosting a dramatic and immersive film work by Australian artist Lynette Wallworth. Coral: Rekindling Venus, surveys an... Read more... |
Yoko Ono: To the Light, Serpentine GalleryWednesday, 06 June 2012The exhibition includes new and existing installations, films and performances, as well as archive material relating to several key earl y works. Until September 9 http://bit.ly/HfTGrv Read more... |
All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, Channel 4Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Taste and class – there’s really no separating them. So when Grayson Perry decided to go "on safari through the taste tribes of Britain” he did so through the lens of class, and he started from the “bottom up”: he went to Sunderland, where big... Read more... |
Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary, V&AWednesday, 06 June 2012
Thomas Heatherwick, a boyish looking 42, is a creative polymath whose inventive and innovative approach to commissions ranges from bridges to lavatory doors, town planning to beach cafes, handbags to benches, staircases to transport (notably three... Read more... |
Extract: What's That Thing?Monday, 04 June 2012
In the former mining town of St Helens, a £2 million 66-foot baby’s head bulges out of the ground. On the approach to the new town of Cumbernauld, a 33-foot busty silver mermaid gestures at passers-by like a Vegas barmaid. Half a million pounds’... Read more... |
Invisible, Hayward GallerySaturday, 02 June 2012The exhibition brings together works from the past half centurythat explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden. Includes work by Art... Read more... |
Any actual sporting art on show?Thursday, 31 May 2012
There’s a lot of art currently happening under the wing of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The common denominator, if there is one, is showstopping ambition and the concept of the inclusive spectacle. What there isn’t much of, whisper it softly,... Read more... |
