Visual arts
Audience participation for Fierce FestivalMonday, 12 March 2012Line-up announced for Fierce Festival in Birmingham. The emphasis is once more on public involvement. Track will invite the audience to move along a track lying down. Love Letters Straight From Your Heart will weave... Read more... |
Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, Freud MuseumMonday, 12 March 2012
Louise Bourgeois tirelessly, obsessively documented her 32 years of psychoanalysis. Before the discovery of her secret cache of personal musings – sheaves of hand-written notes outlining dreams and psychic burdens, doodles and self-excoriating lists... Read more... |
Johan Zoffany: Society Observed, Royal AcademyFriday, 09 March 2012
Royal families and royal academies. Aristocrats at ease in exquisitely landscaped gardens or inside in gorgeous drawings rooms. Actors emoting, notably Sir David Garrick and his troupe. Nabobs in India. All are depicted in Johan Zoffany’s rivetingly... Read more... |
Gilbert & George: London Pictures, White Cube GalleriesThursday, 08 March 2012Comprising 292 pictures in total, this exhibition provides thefirst opportunity to view Gilbert & George's recent London Pictures acrossall three of the White Cube's London galleries. Until 12 May http://whit ecube.com/ Read more... |
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderland, British LibraryThursday, 08 March 2012An exhibition drawing on the breadth of the Library’s collectio ns to explore how writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf an d Hanif Kureishi have been inspired by, and helped to shape, the nation’sunderstanding of landscape and place... Read more... |
AV Festival, Newcastle/ Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities, RFH/ London Contemporary Orchestra, Brunt, The RoundhouseMonday, 05 March 2012
It's often more fun on the margins. The pickings are richer. The view is clearer. You can take aim easier. The AV Festival has spent more than eight years here, on the counter-cultural edges, delving into the divisional cracks between art, music and... Read more... |
Mixed Media, Haunch of VenisonMonday, 05 March 2012
Group shows can be strained: the rubric can be so narrow that it has to be stretched to accommodate the artists at hand. That is one reason why Haunch of Venison's new show, Mixed Media, is so pleasing: it features contemporary sculpture with an... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Battling for the Heart of Ground ZeroSunday, 04 March 2012
Ever since we moved into an apartment building round the corner from Ground Zero a couple of years ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, soon to be America’s tallest building. Now it’s reached... Read more... |
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, Tate ModernFriday, 02 March 2012
Two superb exhibitions at Tate Modern bring into public view the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and Italian conceptualist Alighiero Boetti; their work is not in any way connected except that, with their singular voices, each deserves much... Read more... |
Lines of Thought, Parasol UnitThursday, 01 March 2012
A show about lines: my tiny minimalist heart goes pitter-patter. And with good cause. Lines can be a bit blah – a quick scribble, and you’re on to the next thing. But they can also by their very simplicity, their irreduceability, lay bare some... Read more... |
Song Dong: Waste Not, The Curve, BarbicanWednesday, 29 February 2012
A remarkably tidy parade of thousands upon thousands of objects, neatly grouped into their categories – soap, plastic bottles, cooking pots and utensils, empty cardboard boxes, shoes, flower pots, gloves, string, to name but a few – Waste Not is a... Read more... |
Lines of Thought, Parasol UnitSaturday, 25 February 2012Fifteen contemporary artists in an exhibition exploring the wayartists use line in creatively challenging ways. Includes Sol LeWitt, Rao ul De Deyser, Richard Tuttle, Richard London and Conrad Shawcross. Until 13 May http://parasol-unit.org/ Read more... |
