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Sigmar Polke at the Tate: Where Mao meets the Sausage Eater

17/12/2014

Polke’s humour wasn’t sarcastic, it was a form of rebellion. His volatile artistic tendencies that leave us breathless in awe were his way of shedding each and every conceptual artistic form....

Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]

08/12/2014

One of the major successes of de Freston's imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday...

Suspicion : Jerwood Encounters

03/12/2014

Much of the exhibition literature talks of the legacy of film and photography, but the internet and its spawned cacophony of imagery and new modes of looking is clearly also a player in this...

paintbrushes by freedigitalphotos.net and Simon Howden

Anselm Kiefer : Royal Academy

01/12/2014

When Kiefer is at his best we don’t need the leaden symbolism of diamonds, not when the mud and filth of paint can carry the weight of time and gold...

Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

27/11/2014

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

Francesca Woodman II, 2014, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm, BREESE LITTLE

Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

24/11/2014

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

Late Rembrandt

14/11/2014

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....

Manics by Cummings Heavily copyrighted, do not re-use

Assassinated Beauty : Proud Camden

12/11/2014

The exhibition is a retrospective of photos of Manic Street Preachers taken from Cummins' first NME shoot with the band in 1992...

Encapsulated Ocean Water samples from MOC waterdive’s projected route

GV Art : Lost in Fathoms

11/11/2014

The show feels like stepping into a noir detective story, surrounding the disappearance of the island of Nuuk...

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014

Art's ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes....

Kyle Kouri : Interview

17/10/2014

'I mastered the eyebrows, smirk, handshake and nasal, drawling talk. The seductive and aggressive game of selling pictures. The whole thing was hilarious'...

Dieter Meier [Yello] Interview

14/10/2014

'Conceptual art is pure rationalism. If there is an opposite to that, it’s music.' ...

Hanging Offence : Ronchini Gallery

07/10/2014

For me, a controversial work is unconventional, contradicts traditional methods of interpretation and provokes a reaction....

Katha [Following George Orwell in Burma]

04/10/2014

Photojournalist Julio Echart traces the footsteps of George Orwell in Burma...

I Lied, Said Wartime Propaganda

29/09/2014

A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia, an exhibition held at The Gallery of Russian Arts and Design in London provides insight into the silent period of forsaken Russian achievements during The...

Diamanda Galás [Interview]

23/09/2014

'The work may recall the state of isolation, which is common to all of my performance works'. ...

Hanging Offence : NOW Gallery

17/09/2014

Putting design in the space as art and treating them with equal love and attention. NOW Gallery's Jemima Burrill interviewed....

Caroline Piteira [Interview]

11/09/2014

'almost everyone only ever encounters the 'cover' when meeting others, whereas I want to go behind everyone's mask and see who everyone really is'...

Tsunami Coast : Poetography

03/09/2014

Sri Lanka, 2014 - poem and images by Julio Etchart...

Henley Business School Music Industry Grants

28/08/2014

A UK Grant available to support SME owners to study an MBA at Henley Business School...

Automatic Art : Human & Machine Processes Make Art

07/08/2014

A historical overview of computation systems, the symbolic basis of process thought....

Tolkien, Art & Metal: Paul R. Gregory Interview

06/08/2014

This year Bloodstock is summoning visions of the dark lord through an onsite exhibition by Bloodstock festival founder and painter Paul Raymond Gregory....

Kazimir Malevich : A Beautiful Mind

04/08/2014

His work is the exteriorisation of the infinite space within our minds regardless of time and space, regardless of whether we are in Gaza, Duma, Mosul or Kiev....

Takahito Irie : Interview

21/07/2014

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection

16/07/2014

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...

Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

14/07/2014

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...