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NYC 1993

1 April 2013

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NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, the latest exhibition to open at the New Museum in New york city captures a specific moment in time highlighting the intersection of art, pop culture and politics.

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Rudy Burckhardt

1 April 2013

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Rudy Burckhardt records shapes and architecture, leaving society to weave in and out of the frames.

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Diffusion

1 April 2013

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An international exhibition of photography, European Chronicles in Cardiff uses lens-based media to initiate debate about European social identities.

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Astrid Kruse Jensen

1 April 2013

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Contrasts often produce stark photographic compositions: black and white, dark and light, and small details within a huge landscape. Danish artist Astrid Kruse Jensen builds her entire portfolio on dynamic oppositions.

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2013 Sony World Photography Awards

1 April 2013

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The Sony World Photography Awards collate thousands of remarkable images. With an unprecedented level of entries, the photographs address a range of topics, recalling economic, political and luxurious happenings involving a variety of places and social groups.

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Amalia Pica

1 April 2013

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The Argentinian-born artist Amalia Pica’s first major museum show explores her vast oeuvre, highlighting her ongoing preoccupation with modes of communication.

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Rune Guneriussen

1 April 2013

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Rune Guneriussen’s practice pursues a path of storytelling that is uninterested in the conclusion. Rather than producing didactic works that regulate understanding, the artist creates captivating structures without an obvious, readable form.

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Julio Le Parc

1 April 2013

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A landmark exhibition of Julio Le Parc’s work at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, looks at the pioneer of “Op” and kinetic art’s ongoing contribution to contemporary art.

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Degrees of Uncertainty

1 February 2013

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Concerned with observing the world, Kevin Cooley captures a profound and intense mood through his treatment of light, colour and object.

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Built from Life

1 February 2013

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The dynamic practice of Abraham Cruzvillegas draws on his experiences of growing up in Mexico city, as he creates sculptures that grow from their environment.

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Life Through the Lens

1 February 2013

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Capturing the mundane in a way that heightens the beauty of existence is a skill that should be celebrated. Such is the work of Garry Winogrand (1928 – 1984), who recorded not only the daily activity, but also the genuine character of society.

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Enlightened Spaces

1 February 2013

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A survey of light art from the 1960s to the present day at The Hayward Gallery, London, charts a transformation in the way we think about architectural space, environments and phenomena as artworks in themselves.

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Interior Dialogues

1 February 2013

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Intent on photographing that which society often takes little time to absorb, Michael Eastman has spent four decades shooting interiors, buildings and shop fronts.

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Thomas Zanon-Larcher

1 February 2013

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Photographer Thomas Zanon-Larcher blends aspects of film, performance and storytelling in his images, questioning ideals of beauty propounded by fashion.

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What is David Bowie

1 February 2013

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A major exhibition at the V&A examines the impact and constant evolution of the ever-influential musician, style icon and shape-shifter.

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Archived Articles



2012 Articles


Aesthetic Language Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde
Alex Prager Evoking Narratives
Another London Beyond the City
Bauhaus: Art as Life Commitment to Creativity & Experimentation
Bouroullec Brothers Fusing Art and Design
Bryan Schutmaat Documenting Quiet Spaces
Cindy Sherman Maximum Identity Flux
David Creedon Intimate Narratives
Defining the Territory Land Art to 1974
Dorothy Bohm Feminism & Humanism
Edgar Martins This Is Not A House
Evgenia Arbugaeva: Tiksi Colouring a Snowscape
Gerald McMaster on the Biennale of Sydney 2012
Henri Cartier-Bresson A Question of Colour
Humanising A Modernist Icon Skyscraper
Isa Genzken Versions of the Real World
Is the Readymade Still Revolutionary? It is what it is. Or is it?
Los Carpinteros Innovation of Making
Jeff Hahn Capturing Moments
Jimmie Durham The Logic of Contradiction
Juxtaposing Time & Place Conversations
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2012 Seeing Innovation
M/M Paris Fusing Art and Design
Mel Karch Subverting the Ordinary
New Generation There’s Something Happening Here
Photography In Mexico Politics & Aesthetics
Political & Aesthetic Urgency This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980
Polly Morgan on creating still life sculptures with the animal as the subject
Tina Chang Question of Exposure
Reiner Riedler Reality In Context
Recounting the Story of British Design British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
Roger Ballen Imaginary Realism
Sense of Place European Landscape Photography
Shilpa Gupta on  her interdisciplinary approach in her new show, Someone Else
Strangely Familiar Made in Arizona
Surrealist Explorations Penelope Slinger
The Sony World Photography Awards Capturing the World
Uncanny & Startlingly Real Lifelike
Uncertain Beauty Cig Harvey
What Happens When the YBAs Grow up? Growing Up: The Young British Artists at 50
William Klein + Daido Moriyama Observers of Place

2011 Articles


Alice Anderson & Kate MccGwire Myth-Making & Childhood Anxieties
Anna Parkina Contemporary Life & Avant-Garde Russian Art
Anselm Kiefer Confronting the Past
Artangel Commissioning Art History
Bruce Nauman Transgressing Conventional Boundaries
Charles Matton Infinity in Miniature
Christoph Benjamin Schulz on Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool
Cory Arcangel Technological Expressionism
Cultural Interfaces PHotoEspaña
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Redefining Visual Culture
Frankie Shea on street related art and Moniker Art Fair
Haroon Mirza Beyond the Visual: The New Role of Noise
Investigations of a Dog The Politics of Sustenance
Istanbul Biennial Without Name or Place
James Turrell See! Colour!
Jason Schembri Factory Girl
Lara Jade Building Momentum
Luminous Interval The Battle of Opposites
Making Is Thinking A Reaction to Globalised Production
Mariah Robertson on her first solo exhibition
Pedro Janeiro Iconic Image-Making
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface Manipulating Light
Photophnompenh 4th Edition Photographic Dialogues
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990 A Survey of the Postmodern
Rencontres d’Arles No Limits
September 11 Collective Cultural Memory
Sharon Lockhart Industrial Realism
Silja Magg Another Language
Simon Oldfield on creating exciting new spaces
Simon Wallis on launching The Hepworth Wakefield
Sir Terence Conran The Way We Live Now
Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 Building the Revolution
Speak to Me A Year of Aesthetica Photographers
Susan Hiller The Collective Conscience
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Talking Images
Turner Prize 2011 The Shortlist
Two Emerging Photographers You Should Know Isa Silva & Lottie Davies
Unfamiliar Reality Camilo Echeverri
William Eckersley Spectral Images of a Dark City
Wim Wenders Places, Strange and Quiet
Zarina Bhimji History in Context

2010 Articles


Alan Haydon on cultural democracy & the freedom of arts practice
Aware: Art Fashion Identity
Mechanisms of Expression
Bani Abidi Identity Formation & Social History
British Fashion Photographers The New Generation
Contemporary Greek Sculpture Politics and History: Reclaiming Greek Identity
Daniel Charny on design and curating Super Contemporary
David Spiller Beyond the Definition of Pop Art
Fiona Bradley on the importance of developing artistic practice
Gilles de Beauchêne Crossing the Great Divide
Jannica Honey Stylised Realism & Coaxing Emotion
Jerwood Contemporary Makers Inverting Preconceptions of Ideas & Craft
Jonathan Wateridge Reality, Fiction & Illusion
Lorenzo Fusi on curating the 2010 Liverpool Biennial
Manifestations of the Design Art Movement Art & Wallpaper
Marina Abramović Art Beyond the White Walls
Mechanical Couture Challenging the Bastion of Haute Couture
Neeta Madahar Real Nature, Artificial Worlds
Non-Conformist Soviet Art from the 1980s Glasnost
Peter Kardia Alternative Pedagogy
Photography & the Pervasive Influence CONTACT
Rebecca Handler The Image & the Maker
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Digital Art & the Platforms for Participation
Sculpture’s Narrative Altered by Photography Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
Small Scale, Big Change New Architectures of Social Engagement
Stuart Brisley Politics & the Performance Artist
Stuart Semple Popular Culture & the Aesthetic Discourse
This Must Be the Place Interrogating Location in Photography
Tom Trevor on interdisciplinary art spaces
Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera Tackles Subjects Both Iconic and Taboo

2009 Articles


Alex Box Challenging the Boundaries of Art & Fashion
Andy Balman on commercial galleries & art fairs
Angus Fairhurst A Retrospective of “the quiet man of the YBAs”
Art in a Material World Pop Life
Art in the Global Age Transmission Interrupted
Artists Anonymous Who Really is the Artist?
Barbara Kruger A Fusion of Text & Images
Biennale de Lyon 2009 The Spectacle of the Everyday
Bob and Roberta Smith Breaking the Rules of Graphics
Boo Ritson Hybrid Art
Chen Ke Contemporary Chinese Art Rises Again
Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond the Global Market
Chris Gollon An Absurdist View on Being Human
Contemporary Art from the Middle East Golden Gates
Digital World Art in the Computer Age
Grayson Perry Unpopular Culture Nostalgia for the Bad Times
Into The Sunset Photography’s Narrative on the American West
Julian Stallabrass on politics in the contemporary art world
Martin Parr Parrworld
Nicolas Bourriaud Altermodern: The End of Post Modernism
Peter Saville Design & the Aesthetic Environment
Polish Art Now Take a Look at Me Now & An Impossible Journey
Rankin Beyond Fashion Photography
Roger Ballen Releasing Forces within the Human Psyche
Tim Burton A Retrospective of Artworks and Film-related Material
Venice Biennale 2009 Making Worlds in Venice
Wayne Hemingway on how the recession will affect the creative industries

2008 Articles


Black Acting Talent Want to See More of Me?
Catherine Yass Personal Dreams and Social Aspirations
Contemporary Art from Cuba Unravelling the Myths
Defining the Art of Illustration Illustrative 08, Zurich
David Shrigley Deadpan Humour, Conceptual Art & A Rat
Design Awards 2008
Double Agent Exploring Ethics, Performance & Authenticity
Eric Jaquier & Peter Mitchell Strangely Familiar
Games, Theory & Art A New Modern Perspective
Give Me Shelter A Marriage of Man & Nature
Golnaz Fathi Blending Traditional Calligraphy & Contemporary Painting
Gordon Cheung Modern Economy to Ancient Mythology
GSK Contemporary Contemporary Art Season
Gwon Osang Sculpting Identity
Hybrid Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller Theatrical & Voyeuristic
Kounter Kulture The 2009 Art Fair that Redefines Standard Practice
Lip-gloss and Lacquer Art Loves Fashion & Fashion Loves Art
Magnum Photographers 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
Nigel Hall Sculpture + drawings 1965 – 2008
Nigel Prince on being the curator of Ikon in Birmingham
Pop Art & Mass Culture Curated by Stuart Semple
Roberto Cuoghi The Pagan Ceremony of a People Abandoned by Gods
Shigeyuki Kihara Gender & Identity: Samoa’s Narratives
Shirazeh Houshiary Common Humanity
Showcasing the Country’s Student Art Talent Free Range 2008
Sølve Sundsbø Fashion Photography Meets Art
Jerwood Contemporary Painters Exhibition Twenty Artists with Great Futures in One Exhibition
World Photography Awards Sony World Photography Awards
Yoshitomo Nara + graf Reality is What You Make it

2007 Articles


Adam Neate From Street Art to the Gallery
Ant Macari Exploring the Temporary Nature of Art
Catriona Millar Scotland’s Rising Star
Caravan Gallery Is Britain Great?
Diana Scheunemann Naked Truth of an Ideal World
Enrico David Talks About his First Major Solo Show: Ultra Paste
Fiona Foley Aboriginal Artist
Ione Rucquoi Talks About Birds, Fishwives and Bunnygirls
John Jones The Hidden Art of the Art World
John Squire The Jack of All Trades
Keiko Mukaide Glass and Tranquillity
Light Installation Outside The Cube
Philippe Anthonioz The Art of Living
Reza Aramesh Deconstructing Identities
Romuald Hazoume La Bouche du Roi
Stuart Semple 80s Influences & Popular Youth Culture
Street Scene Urban Art & Graffiti Artists
Turner Prize from Liverpool, The Capital of Culture
Video Art Gallery A Look at the Exhibition Punctum
Wellcome Collection Bizarre to Beautiful
Will Tuck An Iconic Vision for Today

 

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