performance art
Robert Rauschenberg, Tate ModernThursday, 08 December 2016![]() The Good American, a Texan no less, has landed at Tate Modern in style. This posthumous retrospective of the great Robert Rauschenberg includes a paint-bespattered, fully made-up bed hung vertically on the wall, and called – you guessed – Bed,1955 (... 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... |
Brighton Festival: Laurie Anderson - Slideshow, Brighton DomeThursday, 19 May 2016![]() Brighton Festival’s guest director speaks in a sort of rapid-fire drawl, ideal for her debut as a stand-up comic, which she claims was tonight’s Plan A. This half-century veteran of performance art is more slippery than that, proffering a discursive... Read more... |
Brighton Festival: Laurie Anderson – Song Conversation, Brighton DomeThursday, 19 May 2016![]() The foyer of Brighton Dome for Brighton Festival director Laurie Anderson’s Song Conversation would have had a PR executive flummoxed; from punks in their 20s licking the rim of a plastic pint to a hobbling couple clutching programmes. The breadth... 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... |
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979, Tate BritainSaturday, 16 April 2016![]() The exhibition starts promisingly. You can help yourself to an orange from Roelof Louw’s pyramid of golden fruit. Its a reminder that, for the conceptualists, art was a verb not a noun. Focusing on activity rather than outcome, these artists were... Read more... |
Performing for the Camera, Tate ModernSaturday, 20 February 2016![]() The earliest known selfie is as old as the medium itself – literally. Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography, pictured himself as a drowned man. His technique of photographic printing on paper had been upstaged by the daguerrotype, a... Read more... |
Rose English, Camden Arts CentreTuesday, 15 December 2015![]() I think of Rose English as the performer who made Miranda Hart’s success possible. I remember seeing her back in the 1980s, improvising solo at a theatre in Chenies Street. She had the audience curling up with embarassed laughter as she took off her... Read more... |
Risk, Turner ContemporaryWednesday, 14 October 2015![]() Yves Klein staged a photo of himself, in November 1960, swallow-diving into the air from a first floor window, arms outstretched like a bird. Leap into the Void was faked – the friends waiting with a tarpaulin on the pavement below were montaged out... Read more... |
Ai Weiwei, Royal AcademyTuesday, 29 September 2015![]() Ai Weiwei’s first major survey in the UK is a better looking exhibition than I had anticipated, but what it gains in looks it sadly lacks in substance – backstory and information not being quite the same. It’s visually satisfying, since Ai initially... Read more... |
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