Has utopianism become less ambitious? The artists assembled for Whitechapel Gallery’s The Spirit of Utopia favour humbler community projects over sweeping plans for a new social order. Marianne Templeton investigates… ...
It was by a twist of fate that I began drafting this on April Fool’s Day, that most irritating of days on which you cannot tell whether or not you’re ...
The body is an enduring theme in art, from Egon Schiele’s exquisite but confrontational masturbation works, to Mark Quinn’s queasy frozen-fluid casts. The current show at the Scottish National Gallery ...
One of the most resonating questions I was left pondering over was of representation. In many respects the contemplations of death, the associated images, the rituals and ceremonies built around ...
I’m trying not to press my nose against the glass like a child outside a sweet shop, but it’s hard because I feel a bit hungry around the eyes. I ...
Beatrice Gibson’s The Tiger’s Mind is a film that explores voice, speech, representation, fiction and narrative. The film, shot in 16mm and transferred to High Definition, is built around Cornelius ...
When walking into the space at the Chisenhale Gallery I was confronted with a wave of spatial awkwardness. I wanted the familiarity of that easy cinema construct: the seating and ...
The Tate Britain’s summer exhibition this year was “Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930–1980”. Timed to coincide with the London Olympics, it featured photographs of London by photographers ...
To coincide with Mental States, an exhibition by George Condo being held at Gallery, organisers are inviting the public to write 300-word short stories inspired by Condo’s portraits. ...
Grayson Perry’s art was never going to be ‘normal’ or ‘nice’. He is a transvestite whose alter ego, Claire, likes to dress up in dolly outfits, bibs and bonnets. He ...
The first public day of the Frieze Art Fair was, as always, brimming with art enthusiasts, spectators and London’s cream of the crop. A long, beautiful queue of ladies and ...
A journalist, two French exchange students, a Time Out Magazine reader and a couple are standing in the concrete yard of what looks like a depilated construction site. They’ve made ...
Lee Friedlander is a Washington born photographer whose unique compositional vision has consistently won great acclaim over the past five decades. A new exhibition at the West End’s Timothy Taylor ...
It’s the first time I’ve been to the Imperial War Museum since I was 11 and I’m a bit disorientated, so I ask a member of staff where the Once ...
