Focus on Europe
Ian Cheng and Michael E. Smith: Work in progressEleonora Salvi | Apr 11, 2014
Six months haven’t passed yet since Edoardo Bonaspetti has been appointed curator of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media at the Triennale in Milan and the public is already experiencing a real and …
Cinema & Contemporary Visual Arts – Film Forum FestivalDroste Effect | Apr 6, 2014
This year the Cinema and Contemporary Visual Art section of Film Forum Festival will study Analog Media in the Digital Era. The advent of digital technologies in contemporary art production seems to have generated a …
New Tate film series 6. Unlock Art: Great Double ActsGowri Balasegaram | Mar 31, 2014
I have to admit, when I heard that the mighty Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of the Kills were presenting Tate’s latest film series on art, I thought they would be tackling …
J.P.A. – Jealous Prize ArtistsCaterina Berardi | Mar 28, 2014
Sometimes I wonder if nowadays art should be called contemporary. Sure, will argue the most, because we are living through it. Not so sure, I would say. How comes the YBAs are ‘young’ British artists, …
Rites for Gods and Dogs by Luna Montenegro & Adrian Fisher at Cecilia Brunson ProjectsGowri Balasegaram | Mar 27, 2014
The opening performance by Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, Rites for Gods and Dogs, Cecilia Brunson Projects, photo by Patrick Dodds In 1471, after obtaining leave from the Pope to live in solitude …
Having a laugh with Martin CreedCaterina Berardi | Mar 19, 2014
It catches the attention even before entering the door. Like a child, I found myself peeping in to get a glimpse of what I would have anyway seen in a few minutes. As I got …
Returning to the Figurative. Body Language at Saatchi GalleryDimitra Gkitsa | Mar 4, 2014
I visited Saatchi Gallery with the impression of seeing an exhibition about 19 emerging international artists that “explore the physical body and present a variety of reflections on the human form”, as claims the gallery …
American Invasion: Lynch, Burroughs, and Warhol at The Photographers’ GalleryStacey Harbour | Feb 27, 2014
The Photographers’ Gallery celebrates three iconic artistic talents from the good old US of A with their current trio of exhibitions: David Lynch: The Factory Photographs, Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs, and Andy Warhol: …
Cold Current. Norwegian Contemporary ArtMatilde Soligno | Feb 25, 2014
The Cold Current Norwegian Contemporary Art exhibition is the result of the collaboration between two culturally active European cities: the city of Reggio Emilia, and the city of Bergen and its Academy of Fine Arts. The …
Photojournalism and Reportage. From the Collection of Galleria Civica di ModenaMatilde Soligno | Feb 24, 2014
Photojournalism and Reportage. Images from the Collection of Galleria Civica di Modena opened last Saturday, 22nd February 2013 in the exhibition spaces of Galleria Civica in Modena, Italy. Opening reception photo gallery below Curated by …
Dialogues in Walsall – Chiharu ShiotaLaura Onions | Feb 19, 2014
Dialogues is an exhibition built around personal experience. Memories, history, life and loss are encapsulated within Chiharu Shiota’s installations, videos and drawings. Inherently about being human, the body is absent in the literal sense as …
AND Publishing: The Piracy Project at Grand UnionLaura Onions | Feb 13, 2014
Artists from all disciplines take existing works and remodel them, appropriating new from old. The methods for this are hugely varied and can fall in to the purposeful or accidental. The latest exhibition at Grand …
