Tate Britain
Women War Artists, Imperial War Museum, LondonTuesday, 23 August 2011
The sturdy, healthy, almost glowing attractiveness of Ruby Loftus, her reddish curls partly tamed by a green hair net, her face punctuated by bright-red lipstick characteristic of the 1940s, her blue overall neatly complementing her red shirt, and... Read more... |
Don McCullin, Tate BritainTuesday, 16 August 2011
Photography isn’t looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. Thus Don McCullin, quoted on the information board of a new display at Tate... Read more... |
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Tate BritainWednesday, 15 June 2011
Who were the Vorticists? Were they significant? Were they any good? And does this little-known British avant-garde movement – if it can be called anything as cohesive - really deserve a major survey at Tate Britain? Many of the group’s paintings... Read more... |
George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day, South London GalleryFriday, 27 May 2011
By anyone’s standards this is an obscure year for the Turner Prize shortlist: you should consider yourself a contemporary art aficionado if you’ve heard of even one of the artists. And if this is indeed the case, that artist is likely to be George... Read more... |
Mike Nelson to represent Britain at the Venice BiennaleTuesday, 03 May 2011
Mostly the Venice Biennale passes me by entirely: ho-hum, another tired bit of Brit Art, I think, and turn the page. But Mike Nelson, twice nominated for the Turner Prize, is a terrific artist, too little seen, too odd, too unsettling to have... Read more... |
Peter Lanyon, Tate St IvesWednesday, 01 December 2010
A retrospective at Tate St Ives can be a poisoned chalice for the major artist. It postpones his or her prospect of a showing at Tate Britain by a couple of decades, and can appear to consign them to the comfort zone of "Cornish Art": the heritage... Read more... |
Von Ribbentrop in St IvesTuesday, 28 September 2010
As Tate St Ives gears itself up for a major exhibition on the iconic Cornish painter Peter Lanyon – a show that will reinforce St Ives’s claims as a modern art Mecca – the artist’s son is responding with an exhibition that gently sends up the whole... Read more... |
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