installation
The Museum of Stokes Croft, BristolWednesday, 18 August 2010
Bristolians were invited to make history last weekend. The city saw the opening of the Museum of Stokes Croft, a one-room cabinet of contemporary urban curiosities that includes fake neighbourhood relics and archaeological finds, an early Banksy T-... Read more... |
Joana Vasconcelos/ Polly Morgan, Haunch of VenisonWednesday, 04 August 2010
The former Museum of Mankind, just behind the Royal Academy, has been the temporary home of the Haunch of Venison gallery for some two years. They’re moving back to their original home next spring, and though the newly extended building (Lord Nelson... Read more... |
Shock and awe at TateTuesday, 29 June 2010
Two recently decommissioned fighter jets are in the incongruous setting of Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries. One plane, polished to a mirror sheen, lies belly-up, like an injured animal; the other hangs suspended from the ceiling, its matt surface... Read more... |
Ernesto Neto / The New Décor, The Hayward GalleryFriday, 18 June 2010
The Hayward has been closed for the past six months for "housekeeping": those boring cleaning and repair jobs we all do. It's entirely suitable, therefore, that the two exhibitions that reopen the gallery showcase ideas of how we live both... Read more... |
Reopening of historic church art spaceThursday, 27 May 2010
Artist Richard Wilson says it's the best space in which he’s ever exhibited. And having ensured its long term future with a £870,000 renovation, Dilston Grove will undoubtedly prove a rewarding site for other contemporary artists to realise their... Read more... |
Resonances at the Wallace CollectionMonday, 10 May 2010
It's an admirable project: to recast the interiors of stately homes as immersive artworks, a musical recital combined with sound installations designed to make the viewer look anew at their surroundings. Certainly as I entered the hallway of... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Grace Jones Portraits by Chris LevineFriday, 30 April 2010
One can hardly imagine the spiky dervish Grace Jones sitting still for a second, let alone remaining motionless long enough to have photographs (and plenty of them) taken for her portrait. Nevertheless, Chris Levine has managed to pin her down - in... Read more... |
Jannis Kounellis, Ambika P3Thursday, 29 April 2010
Last year, visitors to Tate Modern’s Artists’ Rooms could see a room dedicated to Jannis Kounellis. It was filled with some of his most resonant work: a door filled up with drystone walling; burlap sacks of grain, rice, pulses; metal bells. For a... Read more... |
The Concise Dictionary of Dress, Artangel at Blythe HouseTuesday, 27 April 2010
Judith Clark is a fashion curator, Adam Phillips a psychoanalyst and writer. In collaboration with Artangel, that font of innovative artistic commissions (including Rachel Whiteread’s House, Michael Landy’s Break Down), they have produced what is... Read more... |
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