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Cult, It’s Joan Pope

27/04/2018

Joan Pope uses her body to promote her religion and calls it art, you decide....

Phillip Allen Body & Mind

24/04/2018

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

Creating Utopia & Dystopia

20/04/2018

We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying ...

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a...

Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

13/04/2018

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A....

Becoming of the Avant-Garde

10/04/2018

Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time....

Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

06/04/2018

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. ...

The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

04/04/2018

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....

Max Klinger & The Freudian Unconscious

03/04/2018

Max Klinger is a thought provoking artist who was influential on early modernism his work not only helps to explain complex theories but also helped to form them!...

Damien Meade, Duality, Beginnings & Endings

30/03/2018

Damien Meade is an Irish born painter working in oils, he uses unfinished clay sculptures to give his work a sense of being dynamically in process....

Anselm Kiefer, God, Death, and Seven Tons of Lead

29/03/2018

This exhibition comprises mainly large-scale paintings that are flooded with molten lead....

Shamanism, Art and Ritual

27/03/2018

Shamanism has a place in the arts and famously Joseph Beuys pioneered this, but what is shamanism and what's it for?...

Nestor Pestana Speculative Designer

23/03/2018

Nestor Pestana is a speculative designer making work that explores the modern world through a philosophers eyes....

A conversation with Stine Marie Jacobsen

20/03/2018

Law machines, group workshops and a very strange request, 'do you have time to kill me today?' learn about the world of Stine Marie Jacobsen. ...

Phil Goss Modern Impressions

16/03/2018

Spontaneous and Impressionistic images record the life of a travelling artist and recall early 20th century optimism ...

Art and Politics (its all about transformation)

13/03/2018

The transformation of a world veiw is possible but does art approach the challenge?...

Michael Radford Art Photography & Signs of Power

09/03/2018

Michael Radford is a highly talented art photographer with a knack for surfaces but there are layers to consider also! ...

Terracotta Daughters 2012-2030

06/03/2018

Prune Nourry started working on 'Terracotta Daughters' in 2012, the statues she created in conjunction with craftspeople have become both installations and performance pieces that stand for great...

Joana Pestana Designing to Change the World

02/03/2018

Can Graphic Design Change The World?...

Feminist Internet, Art that Strategises Change

27/02/2018

Feminist Internet is a future-focused collective made up of artists and designers who aim to create an equal and just internet for all. Find out about their activities here!...

Cut and Colour: Siobhan Coen at Zabludowicz Collection

23/02/2018

A kaleidoscope of sound and colour arrests the viewer: Siobhan Coen at Zabludowicz Collection. ...

Cynical Realism & The New Chinese Middle Class

20/02/2018

Cynical Chinese art makes liberal westerners feel good but what will we make of the new proud Chinese middle class?...

China/Art/Soft Power: speak softly and carry a big stick!

13/02/2018

China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. ...

‘Black Book’ Gideon Rubin at Freud Museum

12/02/2018

Gideon Rubin's show 'Black Book' recalls the horror of the Nazi machine and helps us to reflect on that horror in the home of Sigmund Freud who managed to survive occupation. ...

In Search of Selfhood: Eddie Peake at White Cube

09/02/2018

Artist Eddie Peake's autobiographical new exhibition at White Cube....

Sonia Boyce and a Meta Criticism of the Critics

06/02/2018

The Manchester Art museum and the disappearing/reappearing Nymphs, do we benefit from seeing them? or are we perpetuating tired tropes? ...

Ritratto di Giovane Donna (detail), Amedeo Modigliani

Poetics of the Disquiet: Modern Italian Art at the Estorick Collection

02/02/2018

The Estorick Collection showcases Italy's great modern painters....

Hayward Gallery reopens with Andreas Gursky exhibition

30/01/2018

The Hayward is re-opening and showing the work of German photographer Andreas Gursky, this promises to be an impressive array of relevant and compelling images....