Visual arts
Picasso: The Vollard Suite, British MuseumMonday, 23 April 2012The Museum has recently acquired a complete set of Picasso’s Vo llard Suite – 100 etchings around a classical theme produced by Picasso bet ween 1930 and 1937. The series is partly inspired by his young muse and mod el, Marie-Thérèse Walter. Until 2... Read more... |
Ryoji Ikeda, data.anatomy [civic], Kraftwerk Mitte, BerlinMonday, 23 April 2012data.anatomy [civic] is a new audiovisual installation by the a cclaimed Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, arising from a unique collaboration with Mitsuru Kariya, the development leader of the new Honda Civic. Exh ibited as a 3-screen video projection... Read more... |
Liza Lou, White Cube HoxtonMonday, 23 April 2012
There was something perverse about the opening of Liza Lou’s show at White Cube in Hoxton Square on a wet Thursday evening. It was as quiet as I’ve ever known it inside, while outside, barred from drinking among Lou’s fragile works, a throng of... Read more... |
Ron Mueck, Hauser & WirthFriday, 20 April 2012
Yesterday I fell in love with a black boy less than half my age and half my size – or, rather, a sculpture of a black boy. At just over two feet tall, Ron Mueck’s Youth is utterly beguiling. His silken skin, slender fingers, low-slung jeans and... Read more... |
Children’s self-portraits form a montage of the QueenThursday, 19 April 2012A portrait of the Queen, which is made up of thousands of self-portraits by children from across the UK, is being projected onto the frontage of Buckingham Palace tonight.The Face Britain projections is a project created by The Prince’s Foundation... Read more... |
Jamie Shovlin: Various Arrangements, Haunch of VenisonThursday, 19 April 2012
I come not to praise Jamie but to Shovl'im… Jamie Shovlin's new show of covers for unpublished books in the Fontana Modern Masters series would seem to have everything for the viewer who prides himself on his good taste: serialism, mathematics,... Read more... |
Competition for old British artistsThursday, 12 April 2012A new competition to honour the work of those British artists who can no longer be categorised as YBAs has been launched by – who else? – The Oldie. The OBA award will attempt to uphold traditional values in the visual arts and stem the tide of... Read more... |
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Serpentine GalleryThursday, 12 April 2012
Oh yes, I remember it well. Luise Kimme, a German sculptor who shared my flat in the early 1970s, used to buy plaster copies of Michelangelo’s David, paint them garish colours and give them to friend as presents. More a conceptualist than a lover of... Read more... |
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Serpentine GalleryTuesday, 10 April 2012Survey of the German artist who gained prominence in the 1970s and whose work is often presented in the form of books, posters, postcard s and installations documenting everyday situations and subject matter. Unt il 5 June http://bit.ly/spT6bG Read more... |
Caro at Chatsworth, Chatsworth HouseSunday, 08 April 2012
The first and most unusual aspect of Caro at Chatsworth is that it is there: 15 outstanding sculptures by Sir Anthony Caro, placed in an irregular pattern around the formal 950ft early-18th-century Canal Pond, situated facing the southern vista... Read more... |
Brains: The Mind as Matter, Wellcome CollectionFriday, 06 April 2012
The mind is a beautiful mystery. We think, therefore we are. But how is the mind and physical body related? How does a lump of matter give rise to consciousness? Naturally, it’s a question that’s exercised great minds over many centuries, and will,... Read more... |
Remote Control, ICAThursday, 05 April 2012
Remote Control and its accompanying series of events, Television Delivers People, coincides with the analogue to digital switch-over, marking a shift in the history of a medium which will soon be eclipsed by on-demand content. While this may sound... Read more... |
