GALLERY photographic & art displays

Lumiere Festival 2013, Durham

Fisun Güner Saturday, 16 November 2013

The trumpeting of a lone elephant can be heard all around Durham city centre, blasting across the River Wear. The organisers of Artichoke’s Lumiere Festival, now in its third biennial year, have been...

Gallery: Only in England - Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr

Fisun Güner Monday, 23 September 2013

Tony Ray-Jones is one of the hidden greats of British social documentary photography. A huge influence on photographers working today, he documented the English at play with great empathy and often...

Gallery: Derwent Art Prize

Fisun Güner Friday, 20 September 2013

You can use a computer to draw, as Hockney does, every day on his iPad, yet, despite all the technological advances the 21st century has thrown our way, the pencil continues to be the artist’s most...

Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms

theartsdesk Monday, 09 September 2013

"What I’m looking for is that fraction of a second that at least I could remember the concert by." At the start of the 2013 BBC Proms season, photographer Chris Christodoulou let theartsdesk into the...

Prom 2: The Doctor Who Prom in Pictures

theartsdesk Sunday, 14 July 2013

There's the First Night and there's the Last Night. Nowadays among the staples of the two-month world-famous festival of music at the Royal Albert Hall, there is also the Doctor Who Prom. Last night...

The Fine Art of Shooting Conductors

theartsdesk Saturday, 13 July 2013

Chris Christodoulou has been photographing conductors at the BBC Proms since 1981. Many attending the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall may well have attempted to spot him. They can give up on that game...

Performers: A Season in Photographs

theartsdesk Saturday, 06 July 2013

A stage performance in any art form communicates through sound and motion. A photographer's task is to capture the dramatic experience in the silence and stillness of the 2D image. In the worlds of...

PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline

theartsdesk Thursday, 25 April 2013

The historians of punk are in full flow. Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming and the BBC Four's documentary series Punk Britannia have documented much of what needs to be said. But punk was as much...

Gallery: The Springtime of the Renaissance

Jasper Rees Sunday, 31 March 2013

The images in this gallery illustrate some of the links and juxtapositions made in The Springtime of the Renaissance. Classical statues which influenced Florentine artists, works reunited for the...

Gallery: Art Projects and The Catlin Guide at the London Art Fair

Fisun Güner Monday, 14 January 2013

The London Art Fair may not have the international heft or VIP glamour of Frieze, but for 25 years it’s been the place to see and buy the best of British modern art. While the main fair features 100...

Photo Gallery: They That Are Left

theartsdesk Sunday, 11 November 2012

For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed...

Photo Gallery: Aberdeenshire Sand Dunes

theartsdesk Tuesday, 23 October 2012

These photographs of sand dunes were taken by Brian David Stevens in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, along a stretch of pristine Scottish coastline. The pictures themselves, while captivating and beautiful...

Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Gallery

Marina Vaizey Thursday, 13 September 2012

Take the day, and a stiff drink afterwards, as you’ll need it for this thoughtful and deeply disturbing exhibition. A picture, goes the cliché, is worth a thousand words, and nowhere more so than in...

The Art of Conducting 2012

theartsdesk Tuesday, 11 September 2012

The BBC Proms are steeped in traditions, many admirable, some arcane, the odd one ever so slightly maddening. In the short life of The Arts Desk - we turned three on Sunday, the day after the 2012...

Intimate Exposure: Marilyn Monroe 50 Years On

Sarah Kent Sunday, 05 August 2012

It’s 50 years since Marilyn Monroe died alone on the night of August 4, 1962, from swallowing too many sleeping pills. The sad story soon became the stuff of legend. When they found her, she was...

Gallery: Collecting the Olympic Games, British Library

theartsdesk Thursday, 26 July 2012

As London 2012 finally settles into the blocks for its two-week dash after seven years of preparation, the British Library has cast a nostalgic look back to the two previous Olympiads hosted by the...

theartsdesk at the Latitude Festival 2012: Squeeze, Squelch

Steve Clarkson Tuesday, 17 July 2012

As a giggling toddler posed for a photograph next to a pink sheep, a man in a Barbour jacket moaned about losing his garlic-crusher. On the lake, smitten newlyweds enjoyed a gondola ride, while,...

The Art of Conducting 2011

theartsdesk Saturday, 14 July 2012

The greatest music festival of them is once more upon us. Throughout our extensive coverage of last year's BBC Proms, we featured the remarkable work of photographer Chris Christodoulou. We have...

Gallery: Hop Farm Festival

theartsdesk Tuesday, 03 July 2012

Brand-free, eschewing sponsorship, and letting kids in for free, the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent, has risen steadily in stature to become one of the major fixtures on the UK festival...

Photo Gallery: Top Deck

Justin Quirk Sunday, 22 January 2012

In popular myth, Margaret Thatcher reportedly said that any man still travelling by bus after the age of 30 could consider himself a failure. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal, but it stuck in...

Art Gallery: London Art Fair 2012

Fisun Güner Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Featuring over 100 galleries specialising in modern and contemporary British art, the London Art Fair is a January highlight for those who prefer a more relaxed atmosphere to that offered by the...

Photo Gallery: Ken Russell - A Retrospective

Jasper Rees Monday, 28 November 2011

An exhibition of Ken Russell's photographs, taken in the 1950s, spirits you back to a London still in recovery from the trauma of war. And yet seen through the prism of Russell's lively eye, always...

Art Gallery: Egyptian and Nubian Galleries, Ashmolean Museum

Fisun Güner Friday, 25 November 2011

The Ashmolean Museum opens the doors to its Egyptian and Nubian galleries tomorrow and in these six refurbished rooms you’ll be able to see one of the greatest collections (among some 40,000...

TV Gallery: Frozen Planet

Jasper Rees Sunday, 30 October 2011

What we're used to seeing whenever the BBC launches on one of its epic explorations of the natural world is moving pictures. But as well as training film cameras at their subects, from the largest...

Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's Factory

Mark Hudson Thursday, 20 October 2011

Who needs to hear or see anything more of the creepily manipulative world of Andy Warhol’s Factory? We’ve seen the films (well, bits of them); we bought the album (the one with the banana on the...

Photo Gallery: Corinne Day - The Face

Fisun Güner Sunday, 04 September 2011

The Eighties, the decade that fed us the creed of “greed is good”, spawned the fashion “glamazon”. She had supergloss looks and a full décolletage, and, naturally, she wouldn’t get out of bed for...

Graffiti Gallery: Crack & Shine International

theartsdesk Thursday, 18 August 2011

It’s not the first time we have showcased the work of Will Robson-Scott. Nearly two years ago we published a set of images from Crack & Shine, a portfolio which documented the nocturnal habits of...

BBC Proms Gallery: Horrible Histories

theartsdesk Saturday, 30 July 2011

After two Proms devoted to Doctor Who, this year's children's Prom ceded the floor today to the hugely popular CBBC television series Horrible Histories. The series is based, in case you don't know...

Art Gallery: The Worlds of Mervyn Peake

Peake's 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party', 1945

Fisun Güner Tuesday, 05 July 2011

Best known for the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake, who died in 1968 and whose centenary is celebrated this year, was also an artist, an illustrator and a poet. As well as illustrating his own...

Marcel van Eeden, Sprueth Magers London

Josh Spero Monday, 27 June 2011

An article in this week's New Yorker bemoans the death of drawing in art. Why has the emphasis on craft, Adam Gopnik writes, been replaced by concept? He has evidently not seen the fantastic noirish...

Gallery: Weddings and Movie Stars

Jasper Rees Sunday, 29 May 2011

Movie stars and marriage have always helped the headline-writers. When in 1956 Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe tied the knot (he for the second time, she the third), they were dubbed the Egghead and...

Photo Gallery: Moby, Destroyed

'Unattended Luggage Will Be Destroyed': Moby makes stark photographic use of an airport sign

Thomas H Green Saturday, 14 May 2011

As well as a new album, Destroyed, Moby is putting out a book of photographic prints under the same title. The idea of the book is to capture the essence of being on a global tour, from the mundanity...

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