GALLERY photographic & art displays
Lumiere Festival 2013, Durham
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Only in England - Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Derwent Art Prize
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... Read more... |
Wild things: Conductors at the 2013 Proms
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... Read more... |
Prom 2: The Doctor Who Prom in Pictures
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... Read more... |
The Fine Art of Shooting Conductors
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... Read more... |
Performers: A Season in Photographs
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... Read more... |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline
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... Read more... |
Gallery: The Springtime of the Renaissance
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Art Projects and The Catlin Guide at the London Art Fair
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: They That Are Left
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Aberdeenshire Sand Dunes
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Gallery
Friday, 14 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... Read more... |
The Art of Conducting 2012
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... Read more... |
Intimate Exposure: Marilyn Monroe 50 Years On
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Collecting the Olympic Games, British Library
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... Read more... |
theartsdesk at the Latitude Festival 2012: Squeeze, Squelch
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,... Read more... |
The Art of Conducting 2011
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Hop Farm Festival
Wednesday, 04 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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Top Deck
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... Read more... |
Art Gallery: London Art Fair 2012
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Ken Russell - A Retrospective
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... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Egyptian and Nubian Galleries, Ashmolean Museum
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... Read more... |
TV Gallery: Frozen Planet
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... Read more... |
Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's Factory
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Corinne Day - The Face
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... Read more... |
Graffiti Gallery: Crack & Shine International
Friday, 19 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... Read more... |
BBC Proms Gallery: Horrible Histories
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... Read more... |
Art Gallery: The Worlds of Mervyn Peake
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... Read more... |
Marcel van Eeden, Sprueth Magers London
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... Read more... |
Gallery: Weddings and Movie Stars
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... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Moby, Destroyed
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... Read more... |
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