Visual arts
Tracey Emin: She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea, Turner ContemporaryMonday, 28 May 2012
“I realise how lucky I am coming from Margate. It’s a most romantic, sexy, fucking weird place to come from. I didn’t come from the suburbs.” Tracey Emin’s relationship to her hometown mirrors a familiar trajectory. Like all difficult relationships... Read more... |
Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned, Artangel at Hornsey Town HallMonday, 28 May 2012
In the cool, dim, municipal modernist interior of Hornsey Town Hall you’re confronted with a neon sign: And Europe Will be Stunned. It's the title of the trilogy of films at the heart of this Artangel-commissioned show by Israel-born Yael... Read more... |
Boris endorses abstract electronicaWednesday, 23 May 2012Unlikely electronica fan Mayor of London Boris Johnson this week celebrated the work of South African born experimental musician Mira Calix aka Chantal Passamonte, who has created an "Olympic sound sculpture work" made of stone being exhibited... Read more... |
Burtynsky: OIL, The Photographers' GalleryWednesday, 23 May 2012
After a £9.2 million renovation of its new home on Ramillies Street by the Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, the Photographers’ Gallery re-opened to the public on Saturday with a slick new look and an expertly curated exhibition of works by the... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Leeds: OverWorlds & UnderWorldsMonday, 21 May 2012
It’s cold, grey and damp. Welcome to Leeds. The city centre has grown more homogenous, less distinctive since I arrived here in the 1980s, but there are still delights to be found.There’s an art gallery with a very decent collection of 20th-century... Read more... |
The Queen: Art and Image, National Portrait GallerySunday, 20 May 2012
The Queen is the first mass-media monarch, and still probably the most ubiquitously depicted person in history. Her 60 years on the throne is only exceeded by Victoria, and her reign has coincided, of course, with photography, film and... Read more... |
Prunella Clough, Annely JudaThursday, 17 May 2012
Prunella Clough, 1919–1999, was one of the most idiosyncratic and original British artists of the postwar period. Her art is reticent, shy, subtle - yet in both life and aesthetics she was a free and generous spirit. Now there is a fine selection of... Read more... |
Horse, British MuseumWednesday, 16 May 2012An exhibition exploring the influence of horses in history, fr om their domestication around 3,500 BC to the present day. Britain’s long equestrian tradition is examined from the introduction of the Arabian breedin the 18th century to present day... Read more... |
The Queen: Art and Image, National Portrait GalleryWednesday, 16 May 2012To mark the Queen's Jubilee an exhibition exploring how Elizabe th II has been portrayed through the decades. Featured photographers and ar tists include Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Annie Liebovitch, Lucian Freud and Gerhard Richter. Until 21... Read more... |
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, British LibraryMonday, 14 May 2012
Wordsworth would not be happy. The bard of Grasmere once wrote a poem deploring the new-fangled habit of tourists wandering about the lakes with a book in hand. “A practice very common,” he harrumphed, before crossing out the whole poem. The... Read more... |
Edmund de Waal, Waddesdon ManorFriday, 11 May 2012
From Caro at Chatsworth and now de Waal at Waddesdon, the grandest of the stately homes are invigorating their historic collections with seasonings of the contemporary. Like Chatsworth, Waddesdon also has a growing permanent collection of... Read more... |
Collect 2012Thursday, 10 May 2012
Collect is the international art fair for exquisitely crafted contemporary objects. Launched in 2004 by the Crafts Council, the fair represents galleries from around the world and showcases the best ceramic, glass, jewellery, textiles, wood,... Read more... |
