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Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable (Damien Hirst)
Part fantasy, part Hollywood, all Hirst. The master of spectacles hits Venice (read more)
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Something Nasty Trickles Down: Benedict Drew (Whitechapel Gallery)
Exploring exactly what is falling from above in the trickle-down economy (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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Alberto Giacometti at Tate Modern
An extensive retrospective at Tate Modern sees Alberto Giacometti’s works embodying human anxieties and alienation (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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Fight Fire with Fire: Cie Carabosse at Womadelaide (Interview)
Cie Carabosse go beyond firepots and flashworks with their Exodus of Forgotten Peoples installation (read more)
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Architecture as Metaphor – Griffin Gallery, March 9 – April 21st
So ubiquitous we hardly notice it, Architecture is among our primary metaphors. Griffin Gallery explores the notion (read more)
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The Beauty of the In-Between: String of Subsequence
Discovering the intricate beauty of the in-between (read more)
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Krisis, Contribution, Conversation: Talking Photography (Interview with John Clang and Sama Alshaibi)
Art – asking the early and meaningful questions society is not ready to address (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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The Right Stuff. Rogue Taxidermy (Lisa Black)
Unsettling and incisive, Lisa Black’s artworks ask questions of the viewer and our approach to nature (read more)
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Monette Loza: Sculptures Monumentales, Hossegor (France)
Freed from the confines of the gallery, sculpture trails offer an artist some room for manoeuvre (read more)
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A Reliquary for Eros in Ruin: David John Attyah
Two installations in mixed media offer an insight into the male psyche via classicist symbolism (read more)
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Turbulent life, Noble legacy. The art of Mike Kelley
Sadly inhabiting the role of tortured artist, Mike Kelley railed against an establishment which eventually broke him. (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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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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What Lies Twixt Production and Reproduction: The Original Image
Investigating the space between original art and its many reproductions, The Original Image demands full attention (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)
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Painting Childhood, Painting Memory. Malka Nedivi
Unearthing unspoken memories with visual prompts, Malka Nedivi charts a familiar Jewish story in her artworks (read more)
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Collagist by Circumstance (Patrick Bremer)
Patrick Bremer was trained in oils but “ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” (read more)
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Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)
Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass (read more)
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Duchamp, Cy Twombly and outrageous family (Chenhung Chen)
If one wants to be an artist it’s because they need to be one. The desire must come from within. It’s not something I believe can be recommended to someone. Chenhung Chen (read more)
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Presenting the Ping Pong Ourobouros of Singapore
The white, pearl-like spheres will become luminescent by night, and the sentences will join up to form lines flowing around the circular shape. (read more)
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Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy
Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny. (read more)
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Essence : Lara Woolley/Susan Zeppellini
Figurative ceramics, painting and photography, exploring themes such as magical realism and mysticism through to the macabre and grotesque (read more)
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Justin Adian : Skarstedt London
Strangers, the first U.K exhibition by American artist Justin Adian (read more)
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Simon Heijdens : NOW Gallery
Using cutting-edge technology, Heijdens will animate the gallery space through clever manipulation of sunlight and the prevalent Greenwich Peninsula wind. (read more)
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Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection
At the Zabludowicz Collection, it is not just our perception of different media that is challenged, but also our relationships to time, scale, colour, form and materials (read more)