Art

This page has been devoted to the phenomenon of ‘design art’ before, but never has such a convincing display been mounted in London. ‘Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in...

Clemens von Wedemeyer’s multi-screen ‘The Fourth Wall’ is over-thought and overwrought. But first the plot. It hinges loosely on a 1971 news story about the discovery of the...

This two-hander, entitled ‘Bierstadt’, is an exercise in hanging out on paper; there are no deep and meaningfuls about the nature of collaborating in McDevitt and Quabeck’s...

It would take a tough-hided cynic to view certain video works by Johanna Billing without cracking at least one goofy smile. Her new commission, ‘I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm’,...

A conceptual inquiry into the origins and nature of museological display, or a clever way of making use of a tiny space? Either way, SE8’s sequence of ‘Cabinets’ shows –...

In a world of ten-a-penny slasher flicks and Thomas Hirschhorn, already wrapped in layers of pop cultural-parody, one might feasibly ask: where is taboo? Like this work or not, Unsworth’s...

Magnum’s youngest member is careful and talented, but his images of six neglected and troubled former Soviet statelets, under the title ‘Satellites’ require a deeper reading than...

A sweep of 27 clocks is arranged around the gallery in that way that offices do to make them look international – displaying time in London, Paris, New York and so on (why doesn’t Time...