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Raw

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Backlit, Nottingham 12 March - 4 April 2010]
Entering Backlit and I suddenly gained my investigatory head, donning my smoker’s jacket with leather elbow patches and a pipe for good measure. As much as I knew the building well, ‘Raw’ pushed my senses of what could be...

William Eggleston, '21st Century'

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Victoria Miro Gallery, London 15 January - 27 February 2010]
William Eggleston (1939- ), 21st Century Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road, London (www.victoria-miro.com) From 15th January to 27th February 2010 (Presented concurrently by Cheim and Read in New York from 7th January to...

FACADE - Art in public places

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[The Space. 58 Kings Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea 6 - 13 March 2010]
Pulling into St Leonards Warrior Square railway station on Saturday night, I caught sight of the flicker of video projections in a nearby open space, marking the beginning of the evening programme of works at the FAÇADE...

Chris Ofili

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Tate Britain, London 27 January - 16 May 2010]
Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili’s retrospective at Tate Britain takes you on a spiritual journey, unsurprisingly beginning with his infamous dung paintings. Touching images of a mother weeping, overlaid with intricate lace-like dots in his...

Accessible Art

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Mander Centre, Mander House, Wolverhampton 22 February - 12 March 2010]
“Accessible art” As an advocate of accessible art I was thrilled to encounter the work of artist, George Clark-Roden within a vacant shop, housed in the Mander Centre shopping mall Wolverhampton. Contemporary art, in an everyday space,...

The Open West 2010

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[The Summerfield Gallery/Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham 17 February - 21 March 2010]
How can an exhibition originally centered as an art prize manage to place attention from poignancy, and what is to be viewed as supremely contemporary, over to an exploration for discrete nuances of expression? The Open West, now...

'Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard'

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Gagosian Galley, London 11 February - 1 April 2010]
‘Crash’ is a large group exhibition that brings together works my many artists including Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Helmut Newton and also younger contemporaries such as Jenny Saville, Roger Hiorns and Mike Nelson....

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[Whitechapel Gallery, East London 21 January - 11 April 2010]
Where Three Dreams Cross is the current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, open until April 11, 2010. It is a showing of 84 photographers native to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh of over 400 photographs depicting the subcontinent from...