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Liu Xiaodong at Lisson Gallery

14/10/2013

There is a modesty and complexity in the self-aware theatricality of his approach that eschews any defined categories or cultural heritage...

A picture from GV Art Generation exhibition

Generation : GV Art

01/10/2013

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

Robert Mapplethorpe : Fashion Show

26/09/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”R/dropcapobert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show Caution: Borderline NSFW image appears mid-way through text His delicate gaze saw with clarity...

A picture of Gromit at the RWA exhibition in Bristol

Gromit Unleashed (RWA, Bristol)

18/09/2013

The Gromit trail acted as an excuse to explore the diverse areas of Bristol. It encouraged us to walk round the city, disguising exercise as fun entertainment. ...

Helen Knowles : GV ART [Exhibition Details]

13/09/2013

Knowles selects footage that portrays the women’s euphoria and attempts to capture the intense emotion of childbirth ...

Mass Observation : This is Your Photo

03/09/2013

Spender’s camera is wielded with a candid humour and instinctive eye for capturing what Cartier Bresson refers to as ‘the moment’ of a photographic image....

Nature Reserves at GV Art

02/09/2013

For all the apparent omnipotence of our universal scientific systems for the analysis, classification and control of nature, she still eludes our grasp...

Sarah Sense : Weaving Water

26/08/2013

Photography in Weaving Water acts as a political statement, and stands for the social and technological integration of different cultures. ...

George Catlin and the Indians

22/08/2013

An affecting impression of a man and the affinity which he found with his subjects, though always remaining on the outside. ...

Mosaic Syria Exhibition

30/07/2013

Some of the exhibited work has been smuggled out of Syria and will be exhibited abroad for the first time. Mosaic Syria at the P21 Gallery...

Word. Sound. Power. (Tate Britain)

29/07/2013

We are in collaboration with the artists. Where work is subtitled we begin to demand the presence of a voice and find ourselves clutching at headsets for dear life. We begin to translate our familiar...

The Rebirth of Nature : Louise McNaught

25/07/2013

A magical world where animals are gods, magic exists, and things around us possess an ethereal, delicate yet simultaneously bold appearance. LouiseMcNaught at DegreeArt...

An ABC of Aesthetics

15/07/2013

There is a distinction between art and entertainment, one of them being that art is meant to be hard work. ...

Cob and Guts (and curation)

08/07/2013

Life in dreams is magnified, multiplied and recycled to form a new visual language that drifts in and out of cognitive understanding. Francesca Goodwin investigates new curatorial approaches at Cob...

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld

01/07/2013

Courtauld literally lived with his collections and so it was the physical composition of the work (such as Gauguin) itself wherein his main interests lay ...

L.S. Lowry : Tate Britain

25/06/2013

Beloved by many, but seen as a novelty act with shaky technique by others, L.S. Lowry has never quite fitted into the art establishment despite his enduring popularity....

Jan Kempenaers : Breese Little Gallery

18/06/2013

Jan Kempenaers presents man-made and natural monuments; formed and found stone....

A picture of Sophia Starling's Fluor Red

Hanging Offence : Jerwood Charitable Foundation

10/06/2013

It’s a travesty that political society, for the most part, doesn’t value artistic thinking and exploration as it should. This civilisation will be poorer in all ways as a result....

Hanging Offence : Scream

27/05/2013

'our aesthetic is bold, bright, high impact works with an emphasis on the skill or craft of creating works of art' ...

In Defence of Art

20/05/2013

They would then stalk, with a suitably knowing sneer creasing their upper lips, around the space and direct small troops of eager attendants to move paintings a little to the left or a little to the...

Broad Vision: Inspired by… Images from Science

15/05/2013

So often in art/science collaborations it is clear how the process has benefited the arts practitioners; it is often more opaque what benefit the scientists have gained....

A picture of an artwork by Nicola Anthony

Mumbojumbo and Gobbledygook: The Language of Art Terminology

09/05/2013

Sometimes I invent new terms and insert them into conversations just to see who pretends they understand...

A self portrait of Saloua Raouda Choucair

Saloua Raouda Choucair : Tate Modern

07/05/2013

It is her unique position as an outsider that has allowed the structures to develop - rather than the over-stipulation of an omnipotent artist...

Turner Prize 2013 Shortlist Announced

25/04/2013

Turner prize shortlist...

Celina Teague : Brave New World Hits a Glitch

24/04/2013

Teague applies a moral surface to the artwork, as such, she reveals herself as an activist and her paintings become personal tales of her protests...

Metal Machine(gun) Music : DISARM

18/04/2013

DISARM, currently showing at the Lisson Gallery in London features playable musical instruments created from illegal firearms and artworks of sci-fi sonic weapons...

GV Art and Mind Symposium

12/04/2013

GV Art, in partnership with Art and Mind, announce the attendance of Charles Ferneyhough at the GV Art and Mind Symposium 16 on May 7th....

Hanging Offence : Erarta Galleries

08/04/2013

'although much of the popular appeal of contemporary art is in its ability to provoke, we need to be mindful of the media, politicians and governments in relation to the arts' Erarta Galleries' Beth...