A rare category of objects
Posted: 22/08/17 09:48 | 0 Comments
Perhaps this is proof, if proof were needed, of the fact that contemporary art continues to reflect the times in which it is made.
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Get familiar with your local gallery
Posted: 11/07/17 09:00 | 8 Comments
There are hundreds of smaller galleries across the country showing a wide programme of work. They may feature local/regional artists or show touring exhibitions. It is well worth getting frequented with the galleries in your local area and subscribe to their mailing list to keep up to date.
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A Letter from Venice – Part Two: Phyllida Barlow's 'Folly'
Posted: 10/07/17 09:28 | 0 Comments
Phyllida Barlow’s work has been seen throughout the UK recently — at the Hepworth as part of the inaugural sculpture prize, and filling Tate Britain’s Duveen Gallery and Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. Her work is on show until late November in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Much of the work on display in Venice speaks of migration, ethnicity, and post-colonialism — I’ll cover this in other posts — but Barlow has produced a work that is concerned with traditional sculptural concerns: space, weight, scale, and so on.
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Reading Proust By Kindle
Posted: 08/03/17 09:41 | 1 Comments
Last week I bumped into myself near Oxford Circus. Well, not me exactly but a slightly older and much cooler version of my teenage self: strap-hanging in the rush hour with one finger tucked into the first few pages of Proust and with his thumb in the Appendix.
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Online Exhibitions
Posted: 02/10/12 02:01 | 20 Comments
What have we lost and what have we gained? The terminology is the same as in real time; curators, galleries and exhibitions, but they happen online and not in the ‘real world’, so to speak. So what is the difference between these two modes of display…
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