Art
Hymns to the Silence: Ephrem Solomon at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Deeply personal portraiture with strong socio-political purpose (read more)
galleries
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Eyes on the Prize for Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Student artists chase the Bloomberg prize at the Baltic (read more)
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Frieze London International Art Fair 2017
Subverting, and sometimes satisfying expectations, Frieze returns to London (read more)
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Everywhen Dreaming: Richard Stone
Capturing the essence of ‘an English dreaming’ at Kristen Hjellegjerde Gallery (read more)
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A Handful of Dust (Whitechapel Gallery)
All we are is dust in the wind. Whitechapel Gallery retread the inestimable wisdom of Kansas (and T.S. Eliot) (read more)
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Art in Adversity: Magdalena Abakanowicz Remembered
Looking back on the life and career of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (read more)
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Viewing the Inner Billygoat: Self-Portraiture at Whitechapel Gallery
Portraiture becomes an extension of the artist in search of deeper answers, at Whitechapel Gallery (read more)
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Is It OK if I Take A Quick Shot? The Trials of Curation
Art, controversy, exhibition. In introduction to the curator’s metier (read more)
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The Straight, White Canon, and How to Evade It (Interview with Collective Creativity)
Something Human curator Annie Jael Kwan talks to Collective Creativity members (read more)
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Building Her Own Wonderland: Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro Gallery
Unpredictable and undiminished, art’s grande doyenne trailblazes through her ninth decade (read more)
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Subverting the Domestic: The 2:1 show at Safehouse 2
A shattered yet still comforting vision of domesticity conveys the reality of contemporary urban life. Review (read more)
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Hanging Offence: Lily Brooke
Examining substantiality by (seemingly) avoiding the conceptual – curator Lily Brooke answers Trebuchet’s questions (read more)
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Oil and Acrylic In Your Face Icons (Darby Krow)
Spit, sawdust and an eye for colour – Los Angeles artist Darby Krow is no Hollywood hipster (read more)
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Maser Lazar: Orbiting on the Periphery (Maser at Lazarides)
Swapping the street art of Dublin for Fitzrovia’s Lazarides Gallery, Maser comes in from the cold (read more)
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Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery
Native’s Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions (read more)
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Hanging Offence: Jo Melvin (Director of the Estate of Barry Flanagan)
Dr Jo Melvin, Director of The Estate of Barry Flanagan expounds on curation, controversy and the responsibilities of maintaining an artist’s legacy. (read more)
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Hanging Offence: Sophia Contemporary Gallery
Building bridges between Middle Eastern and Western cultures by showing what they have in common rather than what divides them. Sophia Contemporary Gallery interview (read more)
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Electrified, Stupefied, Exhilarated. Art Basel Miami
In the heat and glitz of Miami Beach, Art Basel Miami engulfs the senses and threatens to overwhelm the unwary. It’s worth it though. Review (read more)
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(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream
Can we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum (read more)
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Tick, Tock, The Biological Clock. Torshlusspanik at Vitrine (Charlie Godet Thomas)
Objects which are normally solid seem malleable and aging in Charlie Godet Thomas’ current exhibition (read more)
Events
Jamie Hewlett: The Suggestionists (Saatchi Gallery)
Hewlett’s three-part exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery sees the designer and artist’s first UK show (read more)
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Life, death, pleasure, and pain. A female voice in Street Art (Jennifer Korsen)
The female population is largely unrepresented in the world of graffiti and street art. Jennifer Korsen is the exception (read more)
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Shooting stars! 1967-75 in pictures (Led Zeppelin)
Exhibition of candid photographs of the Led Zeppelin’s earliest years ’67-75 where the elevation of youth, beauty and music combine. (read more)
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The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown
The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing of time (read more)
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An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)
Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations’ (read more)
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Hanging Offence : Kristin Hjellegjerde
I think it is often necessary for art and literature to touch on subjects that can be difficult. If people in arts don’t do it, who will? (read more)
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Hanging Offence : Viktor Wynd [Museum of Curiosities]
I hope to see things that perhaps others neglect, so if everyone’s momentarily interested in an artist I will look elsewhere. (read more)
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Hanging Offence : von Bartha
More and more people will only buy with their ears and not their eyes. Therefore we must work very hard to educate people about artists and the importance of art in culture and society (read more)
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Great Things – Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Gallery [Interview]
I guess there is an element of wanting to put our stake in the ground and say that we believe the artists we show are going to go on to great things. (read more)
Events
The Other Garden
Four artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification (read more)