contemporary Archives

Alternative Possibilities: Céline Condorelli

28/08/2022

Celine Condorelli discusses her practice and her first survey exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery....

Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet

12/08/2022

Saudi Arabia's Ithra brings art and artefacts together, to explore the journey of the Prophet Muhammad...

A Space We Share: An Interview with Nico Marzano

28/06/2022

Head of Cinema at London's ICA, Nico Marzano discusses this years FRAMES of REPRESENTATION....

Michael Rumsby, The Beautiful Lost, 2022.

Safety in Michael Rumsby’s Nature

24/05/2022

Michael Rumsby on landscapes, loving life & joy in painting....

Bob Dylan, Rail Car, Chateau la Coste, 2022.

Blood on the Tracks: Bob Dylan

15/05/2022

Noble Laureate Bob Dylan exhibits his sculptures in the South of France ...

Juan Arango Palacios Jungle Study (2021)

The Empowered Salon of the Queer

01/02/2022

A review of imagery and technique at Guts Gallery’s Salon...

Memories of a Warrior: Chaz Guest

22/01/2022

Chaz Guest brings his vivid scenes of American history to his first New York show in two decades. ...

Chantal Powell, Blood Moon (2021) Damian Griffiths

Primordial Whispers at Arusha Gallery

17/12/2021

An epistemological exhibition on forbidden philosophies, folk knowledge and intuitive spirits via Arusha Gallery...

Bread Houses, Dreaming Horses: Urs Fischer

24/10/2017

Haunting or playful? Urs Fischer's unique sculpture proves you can have both...

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

Hanging Offence: Bjorn Geldhof (YARAT)

14/12/2015

Artistic and Strategic Director Bjorn Geldhof answers Trebuchet's questions about YARAT art space and his intentions there....

Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

06/05/2015

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

Application : System Fork

11/07/2014

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

Edible Art Movement (Singapore) : Rice

21/05/2014

Edible Art Movement undertake to grow rice in central Singapore....

Felix Kubin : Interview

02/05/2014

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

Sendai : A Smaller Divide

28/04/2014

There's a very interesting and productive tension between chaos and order and light and dark running through the album....

A picture from a Bernard Parmegiani recital

The Music of Bernard Parmegiani at LCMF

08/04/2014

While in Paris Parmegiani's work is usually presented in state of the art, state-subsidised spaces, here it manifests in multi-storey car parks and former carpet factories, both in formerly abject...

A picture of Bernard ParmegianiA picture of Parmegiani

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani

20/02/2014

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani 21-23 March, Britannia House E1...

Kraftwerk Uncovered at The Science Museum

17/02/2014

It was only natural that sooner or later, Kraftwerk would materialise in some form at the Science Museum...

Resonance FM at Cafe OTO

13/02/2014

Resonance104.4fm presents a night of kick-ass sound-art superstars...

Supersonic Festival 2014 2-Dayer

12/02/2014

On 30th and 31st May, Capsule present 'Supersonic Festival Ltd Edt' and shall return to the Custard Factory where it all began…...

Max Richter : Memoryhouse [Live]

05/02/2014

An ambitious beautiful record that deserves a rediscovery outside of its historical parameters...

A picture of BJ Nilson album Eye of the Microphone

BJ Nilsen : Eye of the Microphone

29/01/2014

At times Nilsen conjures a tone picture of a Satanic London that Blake might have recognised....

A picture of Leonid Tishkov, Private Moon

Arts Catalyst : Republic of the Moon

17/01/2014

An exhibition about the moon that proposes a Manifesto should by rights fall apart in great steaming chunks of hubris, but it doesn’t, it has value and holds interest by raising lasting questions. ...

Mlada Fronta : Every Thing

26/11/2013

Every Thing really does do what it says on the tin: the set includes every track, every remix, every video and even digital versions of all the artwork, press and live photos from the last two...

Novelty : Asylum Chapel

18/11/2013

Is an artwork good just because it exhibits newness?...

Nils Frahm Releases Video of ‘More’

18/11/2013

Loo brushes ahoy! Nils Frahm and Erased Tapes records release live video of Frahm at the keyboard....

Gillian Carnegie Prince 2011–12 © Gillian Carnegie courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Painting Now : Tate Britain

18/11/2013

“The state of painting now” is a tired topic. The premise – that painting has lost its lure because of new media, which in their very newness enable their users to conquer new territory in the...