GALLERY photographic & art displays

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

Film 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...

Photo Gallery: Figures and Fiction - Contemporary South African Photography, V&A

Jodi Bieber's photographs from her series 'Real Beauty' can feel uncomfortably voyeuristic

Fisun Güner Wednesday, 13 April 2011

It’s been 17 years since apartheid came to an end in South Africa, and the transition to democracy has not been an easy one, for while political systems may change, social attitudes may prove yet...

Art Gallery: The Wellcome's Dirt - The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life

'Monster Soup, commonly called Thames Water' imagines what pestilent creatures may be found in the Thames

Fisun Güner Wednesday, 23 March 2011

There have been exhibitions, indeed even a whole museum, dedicated to cleanliness: the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, for instance (image 9), which was founded for the purpose of public...

Film Gallery: Angela Allen's Life in the Movies

'He was a gentleman': Angela Allen with Clark Gable on the set of 'The Misfits'

Jasper Rees Saturday, 05 March 2011

“I’ve never been intimidated by them. I don't suffer from thinking, that person is a star. They’ve got their job. I’ve got mine. If they’re pleasant so much the better.” Angela Allen’s lifetime in...

Production Gallery: The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Charlotte MacMillan Tuesday, 01 March 2011

Performers in this cast include Sarah Lamb (Alice), Federico Bonelli (Jack), Jonathan Howells (White Rabbit), Tamara Rojo (Queen of Hearts), Simon Russell Beale (Duchess). A second portfolio lies...

Cob Studios & Gallery: Is north the new east?

'Les Amants (Cascade )', 2009, Noemie Goudal: The Cob Gallery opens with an exhibition that contemplates our modern relationship with nature

Hilary Whitney Thursday, 17 February 2011

A burgeoning North London art scene, which includes the Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm and one of the London outposts of the Gagosian Gallery, suggests that the art world has the North firmly...

Art Gallery: Guitar Heroes - Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York

String theory: Detail of a guitar by James D'Aquisto

theartsdesk Sunday, 13 February 2011

From a guitar by Matteo Sellas dating back to Germany before 1630 to one made in New York by John Monteleone in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Guitar Heroes exhibition is will go down as the...

Photo Gallery: The Best View of Heaven is From Hell

Graffiti in Helmand: One of ex-soldier Bran Symondson's Afghan photographs taken in 2010

Jasper Rees Saturday, 29 January 2011

"There's a similarity between being a soldier and a photographer. They are both looking intensely for the moment." Bran Symondson would know. He served with the British Army in Afghanistan before...