Perhaps most famous for grafting a faux Alpine peak onto the exterior of the Austrian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, Hans Schabus is big on site-specificity and boggling displacement. Not...
With both the Hermitage Rooms and the Gilbert Collection long gone (the Decorative Arts really are plumbing the depths of unfashionability), Somerset House has had another refit and inaugurates its...
Paul Rooney’s latest film and text works are constructed from real accounts of historical events (an Australian salesman’s recollections of the 1968 Paris riots and a son’s...
When art meets rock there’s often an easy vapidity – one that’s common to all bad collaborations – wherein serious commitment to an idea is compromised for a bit of a party....
Whether intentional or not, the rumbling traffic sounds from Shoreditch High Street provide an extra layer to Ruth Hinkel-Pevzner’s five-screen installation ‘The Car’. Against...
Don’t you hate video screens that don’t work? Are gallery staff so lazy that they can’t switch on the show in the morning? Well, Seamus Harahan has set his five new films to run...
Stefan Thater’s new work seems like a quaint homage to the golden days of trade and craftsmanship associated with London’s East End. Large-scale ink drawings of abstracted tools,...
I love this gallery. With its marble and gilt, pale roses on the desk and hushed voices emanating from side rooms, it’s like a sophisticated fine art showroom from a 1950s movie – a...
|
|
The best of London in your inbox
Up to the minute picks of the best things to do in London, delivered to your desktop.
|
|
