Visual arts
British Design 1948 - 2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, Victoria & Albert MuseumWednesday, 04 April 2012
The V&A has played a blinder. This extraordinary, exciting and unexpected exhibition provides endless trips down memory lane for many and will be a revelation for others. Ignore the clunky title, moving us from the postwar Olympics of 1948 to... Read more... |
Damien Hirst, Tate ModernTuesday, 03 April 2012
How long will it take for the penny to finally drop and to know we’ve been had all along? Months? Years? Ten years? Twenty? Will it really take that long before we come to our senses, and to wonder at our own gullibility? I’m talking not of Damien... Read more... |
Peter Blake revisits Sgt PepperMonday, 02 April 2012The veteran of UK pop art Sir Peter Blake has updated his iconic sleeve for The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the occasion of his 80th birthday."It's a cross I bear, it's an albatross I have to deal with," he told BBC... Read more... |
Damien Hirst: Genius or Con Artist?Sunday, 01 April 2012
As Damien Hirst’s Tate retrospective looms large on the horizon, the million-dollar question is whether the work has withstood the test of time. Will exciting and provocative sculptures like the pickled shark, which became an icon of Brit Art the... Read more... |
Rose Wylie, Jerwood Gallery, HastingsFriday, 30 March 2012
The Jerwood Gallery on Stade beach in Hastings has so far had a fraught if very short history. Local opposition, largely from the neighbouring fishing community, have campaigned relentlessly against the gallery, fearing that it would ruin the Stade'... Read more... |
Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel GalleryWednesday, 28 March 2012
The first major retrospective of the videos, photographs and sculptures of Gillian Wearing is a deeply disturbing experience. Her videos can be just a few minutes, or as long as an hour, but are not sequential narratives. They can be dipped in and... Read more... |
Burtynsky: Oil, The Photographers' GalleryWednesday, 28 March 2012The Photographers' Gallery reopens with an exhibition of renown ed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. His images explore the rarely se en mechanics of the manufacture, distribution and use of oil, one of the world's most highly contested... Read more... |
British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, Victoria &Albert MuseumWednesday, 28 March 2012An exhibition showcasing 60 years of British creative talent. D rawing on the V... Read more... |
Brains: The Mind as Matter, Wellcome CollectionWednesday, 28 March 2012A major exhibition that explores what humans have done to the b rain in the cause of medical intervention and scientific enquiry. Brain spe cimens on display include those of Albert Einstein, Charles Baggage and Wi lliam Burke, and there are early... Read more... |
Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and 19th-Century Art, Leighton H ouseWednesday, 28 March 2012Works from the John Schaeffer collection of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art. Artists include Waterhouse, Holman Hunt, GF Watts and Leig hton himself. Until 23 September http://bit.ly/hVTT59 Read more... |
Ron Mueck, Hauser & Wirth, LondonWednesday, 28 March 2012The first major solo exhibition in over a decade for the Britis h artist who makes hyper-realist wax figures. Until 26 May http://bit.ly/ x9PYok Read more... |
Alex Katz, Tate St IvesWednesday, 28 March 2012The exhibition brings together over 30 canvases, plus collagesand cut-outs, that span the full breadth of Katz's career from the 1950s to now. Given the gallery's location, a special emphasis is given to the 8 5-year-old American artist's seascapes... Read more... |
