Natural progression
The very first major solo exhibition is a turning point for any artist, though when it comes to Caroline Jane Harris, an artist whose innate instinct for what’s in the detail continues to astonish us, it’s a ...
Art Basel 2014: Domenico Gnoli Beds
Domenico Gnoli’s life could be summarised as the classic story of an underappreciated painter who gains notoriety late in life.
Gnoli was born in 1933 to a family of art lovers. His father was an art historian...
Inside the White Cube – Jack Greer, Alex da Corte and Augustus Thompson
The White Cube continues its presentation of the work of artists under the age of 40 from the US in the North Gallery of its Bermondsey space.
This exhibition is part of Inside the White Cube, a programme prof...
Nicholas Pope at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
Despite his disappearance from the art scene due to illness, one of the most notable contemporary artists of the British art world is back with a solo exhibition. Australian-born Nicholas Pope is curren...
Ai Weiwei show opens at the Lisson Gallery, London
The Chinese cultural arbiter, and conceptual artist, Ai Weiwei goes into the theme of social changes and the myopia of the Chinese culture once again at his new show at Lisson Gallery.
Forever is a monument...
Capturing light
Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the hist...
The sweetness outside of time
In 1969, Dorothy Iannone and her lover, Swiss artist Dieter Roth, were scheduled to participate in Ausstellung der Freunde, an exhibition of contemporaries in Kunsthalle Bern. Prior to the opening, however,...
Gagosian New York presents Shooters by Harmony Korine
Gagosian New York will present Shooters, an exhibition of recent paintings by Harmony Korine. Korine’s films merge fiction and reality, shaky footage with precise editing, seen in Kids (1995) and Spring Breaker...
Against the clock
Art doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t even have to be something that you like, but it’s a pretty universally acknowledged truth that for art to be successful it has to be inspiring, none more ...
It’s a kind of magic
On a chilly evening, hopefully one of the last remaining few, I sat drinking copious amount of tea with Jonny Briggs. This is a man with whom conversation will never need alcoholic lubrication. To see the wor...
Seeing is believing
You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...
The dirty F word
“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...
Through the eye of the beholder
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...
Against the trend
Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...
First exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s Surfers
Venus Over Manhattan will present the first exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s acclaimed “surfer paintings”. Are Your Motives Pure? brings together 40 works from 1987-2012, and includes small, monochrom...
Simply does it
In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...
Glass celebrates the launch of ART14 with Geoff Leong at Boujis
On Thursday night at Boujis nightclub in South Kensington, along with Geoff Leong, Glass raised a frosted, and much deserved, glass of the smoothest vodka to celebrate the launch of the ART14 artfair. The swan...
A Tale of Two Endings – Art from the past contemplates the future at La Fine di Dio, a new show at the Gagosian Gallery, London
Walk into a stark, white room at Gagosian gallery on Davies Street, and you will be greeted by a smartly dressed little boy kneeling in front of a Pepto-Bismol pink, two dimensional, giant egg, hu...
PFW AW14: Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto showcased for AW14 at Paris’ Theatre National de Chaillot alongside the Eiffel Tower during Paris Fashion Week. The 70-year-old Japanese designer showed no signs of slowing down as his compellin...
Many truths, many expressions
“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...
Hold still
This February, Luxembourg & Dayan London, highlights Lucien Freud’s unique creative vision by exhibiting two key nude portraits by the late artist.
If there is one thing Lucien Freud is known for, as...