Art Archives - Trebuchet Magazine

Rome Unveils Shrine Dedicated to City’s Mythical Founder

21/02/2020 Naila Scargill

The newly found monument honouring Romulus includes a 2,600-year-old sarcophagus. (read more)

Leading Auctioneer Simon de Pury Opens New Gallery Space

19/02/2020 Naila Scargill

For its inaugural show, Newlands House Gallery will stage an exhibition of original photographs by Helmut Newton. (read more)

Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns

18/02/2020 Naila Scargill

A Nancy Fouts retrospective will feature work spanning several decades, including some of her best loved sculptures and framed works alongside some unseen pieces. (read more)

Auction in Aid of Australian Bushfire Includes Banksy and Shepard Fairey Works

14/02/2020 Naila Scargill

The Bushfire Relief Auction in Melbourne has been organised by collectors Sandra Powell and Andrew King and prices start at £200. (read more)

New African Art Gallery Opens With Oluwole Omofemi Show

12/02/2020 Naila Scargill

Signature African Art, originally established in Lagos in 1992, will use its new London space to introduce a new generation of African artists to UK and European audiences. (read more)

The Art of Banksy Comes to London

11/02/2020 Naila Scargill

The world’s largest touring exhibition of privately owned Banksy artworks opens on 23 April in South Kensington. (read more)

Climate Activists Bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP Protest

07/02/2020 Naila Scargill

Activists from the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? dressed as warriors to protest against corporate sponsorship deal with oil firm. (read more)

The Contemporary Human Condition

05/02/2020 Naila Scargill

JD Malat Gallery’s group show attempts to underline the importance of international dialogue, focussing in particular on the artistic response to changing global conditions and political events. (read more)

Legendary Arts Venue The Horse Hospital Facing Closure

30/01/2020 Naila Scargill

February marks the 27th anniversary of the venue’s inaugural exhibition and also its forced closure if it cannot meet, or successfully contest, a 333% rent increase. (read more)

Frank Carter’s 900 Days of Chaos

29/01/2020 Naila Scargill

Alluding to his training as a tattoo artist, Carter’s paintings present a cacophony of visual motifs produced in fluorescent and neon colours. (read more)

Opening of Oslo’s New Munch Museum Delayed

28/01/2020 Naila Scargill

Tracey Emin says she is now “working out the logistics” for the inaugural exhibition which pairs her work with that of Munch.
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Hunter Potter Debut UK Solo Exhibition

24/01/2020 Naila Scargill

I Ain’t Half The Man I Wanted To Be revolves around the artist’s personal meditation on the expectations of masculinity. (read more)

Tom French Major Retrospective & Memorial

22/01/2020 Naila Scargill

Transcend brings together two sets of work that are monochromatic, figurative combinations of photorealism and abstraction that depict a psychological landscape as well as material space. (read more)

CalArts Recruits Alumni to Create Works Financing Scholarships

21/01/2020 Naila Scargill

50+50: A Creative Century From Chouinard to CalArts will unfold as CalArts marks next year’s 50th anniversary of the college’s founding. (read more)

Teiji Hayama London Solo Debut

10/01/2020 Naila Scargill

FAME introduces a new body of oil paintings that examine what it means to be famous in the age of digital celebrity. (read more)

Major Solo Exhibition for Basil Beattie RA

08/01/2020 Naila Scargill

One of the most significant and singular abstract artists to emerge in post-war Britain, Beattie brought the grandeur and scale of the New York School to London. (read more)

New Show Examines the Concept of Them

07/01/2020 Naila Scargill

Curated by James Birch, this exhibition examines the aesthetics behind the concept of Them, a long forgotten but important, largely gay, clique.

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Landmark Exhibition to Explore the Fragility of the Natural World

14/12/2019 Naila Scargill

Paradise Lost, the first UK solo exhibition by visual artist Jan Hendrix, will convey his response to the transformation of Botany Bay in Australia. (read more)

Jake Wood-Evans New Solo Exhibition

13/12/2019 Naila Scargill

Recalling Baroque masterpieces, Wood-Evans’ paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell. (read more)

Rebecca Salter Elected President of London’s Royal Academy

11/12/2019 Naila Scargill

Salter is the first woman to take up the post in the institution’s 251-year history. (read more)

New Foundation Dedicated to French-Chinese Master Chu Teh-Chun Opens in Geneva

10/12/2019 Naila Scargill

CHU Teh-Chun, who died in 2014 aged 93, was celebrated for integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. (read more)

Hang-Up Open New Gallery

29/11/2019 Naila Scargill

Moving from its original Dalston space to the new Hoxton location, the building has been completely stripped back, dug out and remodelled over an eight-month period. (read more)