Monday, 28th February 2011
2:42pm
It has been announced that Mike Nelson is to represent Britain at the 54th Venice Biennale (4 June–27 November 2011). He is the first installation artist to be commissioned by the British Council and will be working in Venice for three months prior to the biennale’s opening to create a new site-specific work of art at the British Pavilion.
Nelson, born in Loughborough in 1967, has already achieved international acclaim with his time-based, maize-like installations. He previously exhibited The Deliverance and the Patience at the Biennale as part of a group show in 2001 and has been nominated for the...
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Monday, 21st February 2011
1:04pm
The Courtauld is one of several UK institutions taking part in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Spread over four years, it is designed to give everyone in the UK a chance to be part of London 2012 and inspire creativity across all forms of culture, especially among young people.
For their part, the Courtauld’s Education Department invited 21 students, from families who have not previously participated in higher education, to spend time with its permanent collection, exploring themes of image and identity within portraiture before photography. The students, all with a keen interest in art, had never visited the Courtauld before....
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Thursday, 17th February 2011
5:10pm
The Courtauld’s current temporary exhibition displays the best of its collection of Victorian drawings and watercolours, including works by Turner, Etty, Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and later pieces by Whistler and Beardsley. It is the first time a show has been devoted to this area of the collection, reflecting the growing interest in this field of art-historical study.
The diverse range of work includes preparatory studies for paintings, sculptures and stained glass to highly executed watercolours and gouache with gum varnish, producing the most vibrant of finishes. Highlights include Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait study for his celebrated painting Venus Verticordia, c.1863-64...
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Thursday, 27th January 2011
6:09pm
Last weekend, London Art Fair celebrated its 23rd anniversary in Islington’s Business Design Centre. Its opening evening kicked off with an auction of 20 artworks by leading contemporary artists, including Maggi Hambling and Yoko Ono, for their official charity beneficiary, Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, while Fine Art Society, in its first year at London Art Fair, sold a Gaudier-Breszka bronze for £55,000.
The fair brings together over 100 leading British galleries specializsing in modern British and contemporary art, the largest showcase of its kind in the UK. Like other fairs, it also runs concurrent projects and curated exhibits to present...
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Thursday, 20th January 2011
4:46pm
Gilbert & George started off at Central St Martin’s challenging the conventions of sculpture with their still poses. Together they shaped the reputation of their school and modern British art, as we know it. They won the Turner Prize in 1984 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Their major exhibition in 2007 was the largest retrospective of any artist to be staged at Tate Modern. However, their latter work was criticised for being less innovative and more vulgar, following in the footsteps of their younger counterparts, the YBA’s, in trying to shock rather than engage – with...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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