The Imposter, Bart Layton
The Imposter sets itself up as an investigation, looking into the story of a master impersonator. Frédéric Bourdin was 23 when he successfully passed himself off as a missing 16-year old.
The Imposter sets itself up as an investigation, looking into the story of a master impersonator. Frédéric Bourdin was 23 when he successfully passed himself off as a missing 16-year old.
Conceived specially for an arresting 19th century corrugated iron chapel in Kilburn, known as The Tin Tabernacle, Nowhere Less Now is British artist Lindsay Seers’ ambitious new installation.
Behind a slightly run-down high-street is a little known landmark: a Victorian chapel known simply as The Tin Tabernacle. Housed within this modest building is Lindsay Seers’ most recent piece.
The Wapping Project Bankside showcases British-Iranian artist Mitra Tabrizian’s unseen series Another Country. Tabrizian’s work explores post-colonial theory and corporate culture in the West.
Imagine if a painting came to life: brushstrokes rippling across the canvas like muscles and shimmering like the surface of a wind-swept lake, drips of paint resolving into heads and limbs.
Over the past five years, Aesthetica has consistently supported and championed artists working in all mediums. Artists may submit their work into any one of the four categories. Entries close 31 August.
Incorporating the works by artists Francis Alys, Stan Denniston, Andy Holden, Ben Rivers, Ugo Rondinon, Maaike Schoorel and George Shaw, this exhibition explores the meaningfulness of events in our lives.
The inverted cupcake, the washing machine, the hot-cross bun…these are just three nicknames that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum acquired in the years that followed its unveiling.
With Americans’ attention directed this autumn toward the Presidential election, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) brings together three internationally celebrated artists.
The inaugural North Atlantic Pavilion brings together artists from Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands as part of City States at this yearʼs Liverpool Biennial. It features new works from three artists.
The magic of film lies in its frame-by-frame flickering approximation of life. The stilling of that movement re-directs the viewer’s gaze towards an entirely new reality. Context and meaning are rearranged.
John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the worlds most famous unknown artist”. 40 years later, her work is undoubtedly more familiar to the world but for some there still remains an air of detachment.
Malik Bendjelloul, director of Searching For Sugar Man, discusses how he committed such a curious story to celluloid.
The Dark Half tells the gripping story of a teenage girl’s journey through her troubled imagination, negotiating the boundaries of fact and fiction.
Katie Paterson’s practice involves collaboration with specialists in different technologies from astronomers, engineers to radio enthusiasts. Her latest work is titled Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky.
Shimmering eclectic waves, the magic of visual oceans high up a ceiling, endless skies of light flickering and changing in time, impressions created by the new LivingSculpure 3D Module System.
Archipelago Cinema, a floating auditorium designed by architect Ole Scheeren, will form part of the official selection of collateral events in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition.
The shortlist for the 2012 Film London Jarman Award, selected from a record number of artists entries nominated by experts across the UK contemporary arts sector, has been announced.
David Bailey, photographer and East End Boy, has worked with The Rolling Stones, Andy Warhol and has helped make British Vogue the iconic fashion bible that it is today. Crane.tv catch up with him.