installation
Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World, Whitechapel Gallery review - handsome installationsFriday, 16 February 2018
On entering the gallery, you are greeted by the cheeping of birds. A flock of zebra finches flies around a circular cage and comes to rest on the branches of the apple tree “planted” in Mark Dion’s latest installation (main picture), before taking... Read more... |
Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond, Modern Art Oxford review - revelation and delightWednesday, 19 July 2017
Rose Finn-Kelcey was one of the most interesting and original artists of her generation. Yet when she died in 2014 at the age of 69, she could have disappeared from view if she not spent the last few years of her life assembling a monograph about... Read more... |
Opinion: ArtReview Power 100Saturday, 22 October 2016
Compiled by an anonymous panel, the 15th edition of ArtReview magazine’s annual list of the most powerful and influential people in the art world was published on Thursday. And who doesn’t like lists, to poke fun at, to argue with – or perhaps even... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2016, Tate BritainThursday, 29 September 2016
While the Turner Prize shortlist can reasonably be expected to provide some sense of British art now, the extent to which British art can or should attempt to reflect a view of British life is surely a moot point. Art that is socially or politically... Read more... |
William Kentridge: Thick Time, Whitechapel GalleryFriday, 23 September 2016
Of all the mesmerising images in William Kentridge’s major Whitechapel show, the one that lingers most, perhaps, is that of the artist himself, now turned 60, hunched and thoughtful, wandering through the studio in Johannesburg where he lives and... Read more... |
Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading PrisonMonday, 05 September 2016
“Outside the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always midnight in one’... Read more... |
London's BurningSunday, 04 September 2016
It has been 350 years since the Great Fire of London. A festival of art and ideas by Artichoke, the company behind Lumiere London, has brought a series of free, inventive installations and performances to the capital. These curated events and live... Read more... |
Art Night LondonMonday, 04 July 2016
Just a few hours earlier, as helicopters clattered overhead and thousands joined the good-humoured but impassioned March for Europe, an evening of contemporary art felt like the last thing anyone needed. On this day of all days, launching an art... Read more... |
Whitstable Biennale 2016Thursday, 09 June 2016
As if to signal a coming of age, this year's Whitstable Biennale has a theme: The Faraway Nearby. And so for the first time artists have a guiding idea with which to post-rationalise their work. Until now, the 10-day festival of visual art has... Read more... |
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria MiroTuesday, 07 June 2016
Pure euphoria! The lady, a mere 87, her stature diminutive, her hair and lipstick a blazing scarlet, is a painter, but also a draughtsman, a sculptor, a creator of environments and installations, a performer, a designer of objects and clothing (... Read more... |
Mona Hatoum, Tate ModernThursday, 05 May 2016
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut of Palestinian parents. She came to London to study at the Slade School in 1975 and got stuck here when civil war broke out in Lebanon, preventing her from returning home. In effect, she has been living in exile ever... Read more... |
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea, Arnolfini, BristolSaturday, 23 January 2016
Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah’s multi-screen film installation Vertigo Sea is an epic meditation on mankind’s relationship with the watery world. Exploring themes of migration, environmental destruction and slavery, it was one of the most... Read more... |
