Contemporary art is geographically radiating out of London, and, as globalisation takes a firm grip on the arts, an East Midlands’ light industrial town is creating a gallery that will play with the big boys. Nottingham Contemporary Art is due to open in Autumn 2009, and is nominated for the Conde Nast Design and Innovation [...]
June 21, 2009
Categories: Art News, Meghan Goodeve . Tags: Alex Farquharson, contemporary art, institutions, lord byron, midlands, nottingham, nottingham contemporary, That Beautiful Pale Face is my Fate . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 2 Comments
Applications opened today at 5pm for taking part in Antony Gormley’s high-profile project, One & Other, which will occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square from the 6th July. One & Other will see a different person take their place on the Fourth Plinth every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, and is [...]
April 21, 2009
Categories: Art News, Ellie Rose . Tags: antony gormley, contemporary art, fourth plinth, one & other, one and other, trafalgar square, volunteer . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
Rostone’s solo show at the Centre Fold Gallery in Guernsey is opening tomorrow and it’s going to be amazing! Imagine elaborately-layered, nostalgia-filled spray-painted porn and you’re quarter of the way there. I was at the Gallery two weeks ago and witnessed Rostone’s excitement at the arrival of a massive electronic organ. Apparently he’s painted it [...]
April 2, 2009
Categories: Art News, Lauren Barnes . Tags: castle cornet, centre fold gallery, contemporary art, ehquestionmark, electronic organ, guernsey, kuildoosh, porn, readerswives, readerswives collective, rostone, street art, w.s-s.k . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’ve just got back from Krakow where I mainly ate pork, cabbage and grilled smoked cheese with jam on it. I’d been warned (by locals) that Krakow was a pretty rubbish place to see contemporary art, but amidst the ridiculously decorated churches and houses of fin-de-siècle symbolist nutjobs (also very good), we found some. As [...]
March 31, 2009
Categories: Lauren Barnes, Reviews . Tags: andy warhol, art, bunkier sztuki, capitalism, cheese and jam, communism, contemporary art, david lachapelle, first step, galerie starmach, krakow, national museum krakow, poland, rafael jablonka, sherrie levine . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 1 Comment
In case you hadn’t noticed, Whitechapel Gallery has been closed for some time… while the good Whitechapel folk carry out a £10.5 million expansion which will see the gallery double in size by incorporating the old library building attached. It reopens on Sunday 5 April with Isa Genzken’s exhibition Open Sesame. It’s a retrospective with [...]
March 20, 2009
Categories: Art News, Ellie Rose . Tags: april, contemporary art, east london, free, german art, isa genzken, open sesame, retrospective, whitechapel gallery . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
Curator-bashing is the art historian’s new favourite sport. Poor Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the Tate’s fourth Triennial exhibition, Altermodern. The premise of the show is that we have entered a new phase of post-post-modernity called Altermodern. It’s all about globalisation, decentralisation and the artist as traveller. The show has been criticised as ‘the residue of [...]
March 19, 2009
Categories: Lauren Barnes, Reviews . Tags: tate, tate britain, tate triennial, altermodern, nicolas bourriaud, contemporary art, art, simon starling, franz ackermann, marcus coates, israel, plover, walead beshty . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 2 Comments
Anthony Gormley’s commission called One and Other will take the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in July. It will be occupied by volunteers standing every hour for 100 days! (That’s 2,400 people) Gormley says that ‘through elevation onto the plinth and removal from common ground, the subjective living body becomes both representation and representative, encouraging [...]
March 19, 2009
Categories: Art News, Jo Matthews . Tags: anthony gormley, being art, contemporary art, fourth plinth, london, one and other, plinth . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
