Review of Calder Shadows at Venus Over Manhattan

Installed in one and a half days, Calder Shadows at Venus Over Manhattan is a remarkable experiment. 11 Alexander Calder mobiles occupy a darkened and otherwise empty exhibition space.

A New Objectivity: The Düsseldorf School of Photography, Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s Sǀ2 Gallery is currently playing host to an impressive collection of photographs taken from the influential Düsseldorf School of Photography.

Paolo Scheggi: Selected Works from European Collections, Ronchini Gallery, London

Featuring key works from his short but prolific artistic career, Ronchini Gallery presents Paolo Scheggi’s first solo exhibition in London for over 40 years from 11 December until 8 February.

Jake and Dinos Chapman: Come and See at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

Jake and Dinos Chapman have a reputation as the bad boys of contemporary art with their anti-establishment rhetoric, searing critique of their peers and art which aims to offend every human being who comes into contact with it.

Audemars Piguet and Galerie Perrotin Celebrate Curiosity

Swiss haute horology brand Audemars Piguet teamed up with leading art gallery Galerie Perrotin to celebrate the ambitious new work by artist duo Kolkoz commissioned for Art Basel Miami Beach.

Jameel Prize 3, V&A, London

The third Jameel Prize attracted almost 270 nominations from countries as diverse as Algeria, Brazil, Kosovo, Norway and Russia. A panel of judges, chaired by…

Review of Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013 at Tate Liverpool

Currently housed within the top floor gallery of the Tate Liverpool, new exhibition Art Turning Left showcases an extensive collection of work relating to left-wing movements and ideology.

The Making of The Correspondents’ Fear and Delight

The new single from The Correspondents, Fear and Delight, is out today via From Our Own. The release proceeds next year’s March launch of their debut album, Puppet Loosely Strung.

Review of Dennis Oppenheim: Thought Collision Factories at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Thought Collision Factories is a collection of Oppenheim’s work tracking his sculptural development over 14 years between 1972 and 1986. His endeavour throughout his working life was to make ideas material.

Final Day of Art Basel Miami Beach

Today is the last day to get along to Art Basel Miami Beach. This Art Basel show presents premier artwork from across the globe. Over 250 of the world’s leading galleries participate.

Art Basel Miami Beach Day Three

There’s still time to get along to Art Basel Miami Beach. As well as the stunning list of exhibitors, there are sectors allowing visitors to explore the many dimensions of Modern and contemporary art.

Art Basel Miami Beach Day Two

The second day of Art Basel Miami Beach is upon us and there are still hundreds of galleries to check out. Participants from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa make up the impressive list of exhibitors at this year’s event.

Review of Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! at Somerset House, London

Exhibitions at Somerset House are always an event, vibrant and full of personality; Fashion Galore! continues along this thread, portraying the life of model, muse, designer and stylist Isabella Blow.

Interview with Artist, Choreographer and Director Siobhan Davies

Siobhan Davies has worked as a dance artist and choreographer for over 40 years and her passion for movement and communication has lead to a long and varied career.

Art Basel Miami Beach Opens Today

Classic art deco boulevards, long white beaches and a glitzy night life provide the backdrop to Art Basel Miami Beach. Art Basel, which began in 1970, is recognised as a premier international art fair.

Review of Julian Schnabel at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut

Julian Schnabel’s confessed fear of death and suggestion that reality and truth may reside in things could account for the gigantic size and weight of the objects in The Brant Foundation Art Study Center exhibition Julian Schnabel.

Gered Mankowitz: Vintage Stones, Atlas Gallery, London

Gered Mankowitz: Vintage Stones marks the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ formation and brings together over 1000 previously unseen vintage silver gelatin prints.

Film at Art Basel Miami Beach

The so-called “Olympics of the art world”, Art Basel, returns to Miami Beach on 5 December, bringing together the international art community for the winter art event of the year.

Review of América Latina 1960-2013 at Fondation Cartier, Paris

The comprehensive project América Latina 1960-2013 is a bright example of a discourse presentation in a frame of exhibition space. It aims to give a panorama of Latin American photography from 1960 up to today, and unites 72 artists from 11 countries.

Interview with Artist Jakob Rowlinson, The Catlin Guide

The Catlin Guide 2014 will present the very best in Britain’s most talented new artists. The publication will be available to the public from January at this year’s London Art Fair.

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The first major large-scale retrospective in Europe devoted to Photorealism surveys the genre’s development from the 1960s to today through works by Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, and others.

Review of Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences at Manchester Art Gallery

Grayson Perry’s recent work is inspired by Hogarth’s 18th century series, A Rake’s Progress. Perry has applied the narrative to contemporary society, and executed it in the form of six tapestries.

Paul Reas: Daydreaming About the Good Times? Impressions Gallery, Bradford

Influential photographer Paul Reas has documented the experiences of the working class. This project comes together in the international premiere of his first major retrospective at the Impressions Gallery.

Interview with British artist Georgia Rose Murrary

Georgia Rose Murray uses the subconscious to form coherent narratives for paintings. She clarifies its messages by analysing and depicting them in conjunction with her subjective experiences, through the act of painting.

Celebrating Short Film

Discover the highlights from this year’s Aesthetica Short Film Festival and watch a selection of the films we screened across the city of York.

Preserving Memories

Hoarding photographs, art books, newspaper clippings and found items that took her fancy, Vivian Maier filled storage lockers with her bric-a-brac and over 100,000 negatives.

Exposing Secrets

Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone is built upon the ancient Persian myth that the syngué sabour is a confessional tool, an object on which you can lay all your secrets, your despairs and your rage.

Subtle Discovery

Maroesjka Lavigne spent four months travelling around Iceland in the months between winter and spring photographing this intriguing country along the way.

Marcel Broodthaers

In this incredibly authoritative volume, Marie-Puck brings back to life her father’s photographs and exhibition chronology.

Documenting Musicians

Over the past decade the number of music documentaries under production has significantly increased, and there doesn’t seem to be a clear cut reason why.

Utopia

Utopia delves back into the White Australia Policy of 1901, which effectively introduced a form of Apartheid as virulent as anything seen in South Africa.

Kelly + Victor

Adapted from Niall Griffiths’ compelling novel, Kelly + Victor is an intense love story with harrowing overtones.

Constructing Sculpture

German artist Isa Genzken’s first major American retrospective at New York’s MoMA will engage the senses and the mind in an all-out immersive exhibition.

Margarita

The self-obsessed family that employs her as a nanny barely notice that Margarita is their domestic Sun until she is fired and it highlights the ways they orbit her.

The Style of Coworking

The Style of Coworking showcases a staggering array of working spaces, including places long-abandoned and reclaimed by enterprising visionaries who infused them with personality and style.

Cultural Politics

A new exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow explores the socio-political undercurrents of European art since 1945 through to the present day.

Peter Beard: Into the Wild

Embodying the titles of photographer, collector, diarist and writer, Beard journeyed the path less travelled.

Vuvuvultures

Combining electronics with a punchy rhythm and a splattering of pop, Push/Pull is an endlessly catchy album.

Challenging Signifiers

Parreno transforms the Palais de Tokyo, an experience rather than an exhibition, Anywhere, Anywhere, Out Of The World  is greater than the sum of its parts.

Susanna and Ensemble neoN

A collaboration between singer Susanna Wallumrød and Ensemble neoN, The Forester is a wildly ambitious album that deals with loss, power and loneliness.

Child’s Pose

In the upper echelons of Romania’s nouveau riche Child’s Pose probes into the caustic relationship between a domineering mother and her adult son.

Tristesse Contemporaine

Tristesse Contemporaine is a trio based in France with no French members, which delivers synth pop that sounds equally at home in the mainstream or underground.

Beastmilk

Coming from the same angle as Joy Division, Beastmilk cook up some great songs. Death Reflects Us, in particular, is massive, with huge guitars and perfectly-controlled reverb.

Expanding Narratives

New writing is experiencing a revival and the Soho Theatre is just one of a growing number of venues where emerging writers can make themselves heard.

Unrivalled Iconography

Renowned for impeccable tailoring with unexpected elements lurking beneath each perfect cut, Paul Smith rose from a single, tiny shop in Nottingham.

William Kentridge: Fortuna

“Fortuna” is a concept employed by the acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge to describe his creative process. It implies more than simple chance but less than a fully conceived plan: a kind of engineered luck.

Milius

Milius, the first feature-length documentary from director duo Zak Knutson and Joey Figueroa, unearths the real character of John Milius.

Mister John

In Mister John, Gillen straddles two worlds – the one he wishes to leave behind and an alternative existence occupied by someone he once knew, but no more.

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist who is interested in the potential of materials. Her latest involvement is with Glasstress, as one of 65 artists challenged to work with glass.

WarpFilms10

It’s an outstanding feat for any British film company to reach its first birthday – Warp has hit 10 consecutive anniversaries, adding yet more titles to its body of work.