Between angst-ing over displaying work, and struggling to stretch tracing paper mounts… I went to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and see this exhibition. It is underground, which means all light is electric, or borrowed. I know they can’t move […]
Enzo Marra, 'Francis Bacon', oil on canvas, 2010. Photo: Chiara Williams. Courtesy: the artist & WW Gallery.
Nicholas Ferguson’s unusual career trajectory
I visited the Sainsbury Centre to experience the innovations that gallery director Jago Cooper has introduced, designed to improve – or even revolutionise – the way visitors experience an art collection.
A ‘conversation’ between the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the contemporary British artist, poet and critic Alexander Adams.
An interview with Greek artist Charoula Nikolaidou currently exhibiting in Anorioton as part of a new exhibition series of contemporary Greek art in London.
An interview with Christina Papaioannou whose paintings are showing in ‘Anorioton’ in London 2-20 December 2019
Venue 1 ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Aros Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus C Introduction with Ole G. Jørgensen, Programme Manager for ARoS’ new international residency programme and New York-based artists in residence Flux Factory. A bit about ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (from their […]
More News in Brief: Italian galleries and collectors pledge support for contemporary art as right-wing government slashes art funding; New York’s Performa launches online platform for streaming new and archive performance art.
Recommended shows from across the UK, including: Hardeep Pandhal’s video installation and drawings at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, Nigel Cooke’s paintings at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, and Helen Sear’s video, photography and sound at Impressions Gallery, Bradford.
The eighth day of my residency was spent talking with Francesco Pedraglio as we walked to city centre. We spent the morning discussing his new artwork for the Museo and also my research. I then visited the Museo Naciónal de la Máscara. The […]
Museums are the past, they are permanent, they are formal, they intrigue and bore in equal measure. I have been using the museum as a fictional device for some time, through the creation of my own Museum of Imaginative Knowledge, […]
In my adolescence, I visited the artist, my father, in his London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: artist collaboration in contention for 29th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award; Documenta 14 curators and artists respond to media reports of financial mismanagement.
Art as Transformer is an exploration into the relationships between painting and photography and the effects photography has upon the ways we interpret the world around us. The increase of mobile digital photography over the last 17 years has given […]
Between the 7th July and 30th December 2017, 80 Contemporary British Paintings will go on display in 4 Chinese art museums for the very first time.
Tate Britain’s new show, ‘Queer British Art 1861 – 1967’, features work by artists including Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan, Evelyn de Morgan and Glyn Philpot, alongside queer ephemera, personal photographs, film and magazines.
This week’s selection includes a painting show in London, alternatives to screen-based technologies in Manchester, and a film about artists’ sketchbooks in Trowbridge.
This week’s selection includes film installation in London, photography in Penzance and a celebration of Aspex’s 35th anniversary in Portsmouth.
The director of Artists Space, New York is set to replace outgoing director Gregor Muir in November.
What we need today is New Art, original and authentic work. People are tired of the derivative art of Post Modernism, of the art that is calculated to shock and undermine our inherited wisdom, of the art that is produced […]