Fisun Güner
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- Fisun is a freelance visual arts writer
Articles by Fisun Güner
10 Questions for Artist Michael Landy
Monday, 20 May 2013
Much of Michael Landy’s work concerns destruction or decay. The British artist, who recently turned 50 and is part of the YBA generation, came to prominence in 2001 with the Artangel commission Break... Read more... |
Mariele Neudecker, Regency Town House, Brighton
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Mariele Neudecker is the lead artist of this year’s HOUSE, a festival for the visual arts which is now in its sixth year and which runs parallel with the Brighton Festival. She's a fitting choice: an... Read more... |
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, British Library
Friday, 17 May 2013
Every time you turn a corner, he’s there, on yet another monitor. Either the exhibition curators have a sense of humour, or Alastair Campbell really is the last word on propaganda, a subject about... Read more... |
CD: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell - Love Has Come For You
Monday, 13 May 2013
Steve Martin has a number of strings to his bow: comedian, actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and – who knew? – banjo player. And if you need any convincing, his 2010 release The Crow:... Read more... |
Great Artists: In Their Own Words, BBC Four
Thursday, 09 May 2013
After the marvellous Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words, the BBC has once again rummaged through its documentary archives, this time to see what artists have to say for themselves. Artists are often... Read more... |
Mamma Andersson / Andreas Eriksson, Stephen Friedman Gallery
Monday, 06 May 2013
With their curious juxtapositions and scrambling of pictorial space a dream-like atmosphere is conjured in Mamma Andersson’s paintings. Her scenes are often confined to the domestic or everyday realm... Read more... |
DVD: The Brontës of Haworth
Friday, 26 April 2013
Are we approaching some sort of Brontë anniversary? Or is it simply the 40th anniversary of this long-forgotten dramatization of the “Brontë story” that’s being marked with a two-disc DVD... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: Is David Shrigley an artist? and other thoughts
Thursday, 25 April 2013
“Is David Shrigley an artist?,” a journalist asked at Tate Britain’s Turner Prize shortlist announcement this morning. Well, many would say so, though The Arts Desk critic Judith Flanders had... Read more... |
Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern
Friday, 19 April 2013
Saloua Raouda Choucair began her career as a painter, initially studying under Lebanon’s two leading landscape artists, Mustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi. In the late 1940s, she trained in the studio of... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Amsterdam: Reopening of the Rijksmuseum
Sunday, 07 April 2013
The Rijksmuseum is reopening after 10 years. What took it so long? Escalating costs, contractual problems, a protracted battle with the cycling lobby (this is Amsterdam, after all). I’m sure there’s... Read more... |
High Art of the Low Countries, BBC Four
Friday, 05 April 2013
There was a time when the art of the Low Countries was considered to be very lowly and base indeed. It was the high art of Italy that counted if you were a person of culture and breeding. Not for you... Read more... |
The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum, BBC Two
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
Ten years ago Peter Nicholson made a BBC drama about Pompeii and its destruction. This fictionalised reconstruction, depicting made-up characters in togas saying made-up things, sounded cheesier than... Read more... |
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, British Museum
Saturday, 30 March 2013
"In the midst of life we are in death.” This is a line we may feel compelled to reverse as we encounter the first exhibits in the British Museum’s extraordinarily powerful... Read more... |
Steptoe and Son, Lyric Hammersmith
Thursday, 21 March 2013
What’s this? Harold and Albert turfed out of their old stamping ground of Shepherd’s Bush and turned into West Country natives? Any change to a cherished sitcom comes at the theatre director’s peril... Read more... |
What Do Artists Do All Day?, BBC Four
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
You might phrase the question rhetorically: “just what do artists do all day?” Or you might ask it in the spirit of genuine enquiry: after all, to many, the artist is an exotic creature whose mystery... Read more... |
Glam! The Performance of Style, Tate Liverpool
Friday, 15 March 2013
Glam. Were you there? If so, what was it all about? You might come up with a list: Roxy Music, Ziggy Stardust, shiny flares, Sweet, shaggy hair, the ubiquitous platform boot, T-Rex, glittery eye-... Read more... |
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