Visual arts
Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite, British MuseumTuesday, 08 May 2012
The Vollard Suite is Picasso’s most celebrated series of etchings. Named after Ambroise Vollard, the influential avant-garde art dealer who gave the 19-year-old Picasso his first exhibition in Paris in 1901, the series was commissioned by the dealer... Read more... |
BauhausSunday, 06 May 2012Read more... |
Bauhaus: Art as Life, BarbicanFriday, 04 May 2012
As an art school the Bauhaus has a reputation for being the cradle of modernism, famous for establishing an alliance between art and industry which produced enduring design classics such as Marcel Breuer’s tubular steel chairs, Josef Albers’ silver... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2012 shortlistWednesday, 02 May 2012
Where’s Marcus Coates? The gangly shaman-artist was last seen communing with the dark spirit of the soon-to-be demolished Heygate Estate in the Elephant and Castle, but, hell, he’s nowhere on the Turner Prize 2012 shortlist.Coates is an artist whose... Read more... |
Jenny Saville, Modern Art OxfordFriday, 27 April 2012Jenny Saville rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with her monu mental paintings depicting flesh and form on a vast scale, where a sense o f physicality is scrutinized with an uncompromising intensity. This exhibit ion traces her work from the early... Read more... |
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi GalleryFriday, 27 April 2012
Exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery tend to start with a bang and end with a whimper; so to avoid the experience of diminishing returns, I started upstairs – hoping to save the best until last. The stratagem worked perfectly; my final encounter was... Read more... |
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012Wednesday, 25 April 2012
If you choose to walk between the venues of the 2012 Glagow InternationaI Festival of Visual Art, the incredible energy of the place engulfs you and you begin to understand why so many artists have made it their home. All eras of architecture... Read more... |
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle casts anchorMonday, 23 April 2012It graced the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and now, with the help of a public campaign, Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle has been purchased for the National Maritime Museum.A public campaign was set in motion by the Art Fund in... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Liverpool: The Sea OdysseyMonday, 23 April 2012
There is something surreal about emerging from an underground station in Liverpool and being confronted by an enormous giant lumbering its way up the street. Even coming up the escalator it is possible to hear the band accompanying this gigantic... Read more... |
Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art GalleryMonday, 23 April 2012
Manchester was once known as Cottonopolis, since the city was once at the centre of the vast global industry reponsible for its growth and prosperity.The Whitworth Art Gallery, which is part of Manchester University, has in its collection a... Read more... |
Glasgow International Festival of ArtMonday, 23 April 2012The biennial visual arts festival returns with programme highli ghts that include Jeremy Deller, Karla Black, Richard Wright and WolfgangTillmans. Until 7 May http://bit.ly/HDrMZs Read more... |
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist, The Queen's GalleryMonday, 23 April 2012The exhibition presents the largest ever exhibition of Leonardoda Vinci’s studies of the human body. Through his anatomical studies Leona rdo tested contemporary theories of ideal proportion and sought greater kno wledge of human life – conception... Read more... |
