Serpentine Gallery
Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures, Serpentine GalleryFriday, 28 September 2012
On the evidence of this Serpentine exhibition of huge sculptures, small sculptures, photographs, drawings, watercolours and prints, the German artist Thomas Schütte is obsessed, but obsessed, with faces. It is billed as the first show to focus... 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... |
Lygia Pape: Magnetised Space, Serpentine GalleryWednesday, 14 December 2011
The Serpentine’s north gallery has been transformed into a magical space (main picture). Strung from floor to ceiling of the darkened room, shafts of copper wire glimmer in subdued lighting like sunbeams, or the searchlights that scanned the night... Read more... |
Anri Sala, Serpentine GallerySunday, 09 October 2011
A single snare drum greets you on entry to the Serpentine Gallery; there’s no one playing it, yet in response to an inaudible cue, the drumsticks begin to vibrate autonomously. Meanwhile on a nearby wall, a pair of blue rubber gloves revolves slowly... Read more... |
Summary of main Arts Council winners and losersWednesday, 30 March 2011A sliderule of 11-15 per cent reductions in annual grants by 2015, compared with this year, has been applied to Britain's major orchestras, opera, dance, theatre and music organisations. One major gainer is London's Barbican Centre - one major loser... Read more... |
Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine GalleryFriday, 25 June 2010
It takes a lot of work to make a show look as unconsidered and chaotic as this one: thought and care and time and attention all have to be paid before something so random can be achieved. But as so often with Tillmans, the nagging questions persist... Read more... |
Last Dance: Why Our Best Ballets Are Slowly DyingTuesday, 20 July 1999
Sir Frederick Ashton, Britain's unrivalled genius at creating ballets, had a simple attitude towards posterity. "You've heard his famous remark, 'Fuck posterity'?" says his nephew, Anthony Russell-Roberts, smiling but eyeing me apprehensively.Ashton... Read more... |
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