A Marianne Faithfull Moment
Faithful Once a year or two—if I’m in the neighbourhood—I drop by the Salisbury on St Martin’s Lane, and prop my bones up against the bar. I stand in the same place and stare at the same thing—an empty...
View ArticleThe Hoxton Mutation
Areas normally evolve stylistically according to the culture of its residents, but what’s fascinating about the changing face of East London’s Shoreditch and Hoxton over the past ten to twelve years...
View ArticleModern Beauty! – An unexpected revelation from the Guggenheim, New York
Amidst furrowed brows of bandana wearing urban-philes I stand in wonder at how the appreciation of something so obviously applauded by the majority can escape me so completely! My peripherals are...
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Recalling Brixton: Brixton Calling!
Memories of radicalism too often relegate it to the past. A collaborative exhibition between 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning and Brixton Artists Collective Archive (BACA) instead prove that a...
View ArticleReview: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The competition for 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year received over 41,000 images from 95 different countries. The esteemed and experienced judges were looking for...
View Article“Hirst’s Dots …or is that Spots?” Gagosian Gallery, Athens 2012
Leaning over the wash-basin, where I normally do my thinking and, therefore, little of it. I contemplate having just volunteered to go to the Athenian arm of Gagosian’s continent-spanning galleries and...
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The Home of Wordsworth
Dove Cottage in Grasmere is one of three sites in the Lake District that William Wordsworth was connected to during his lifetime; the others being his birthplace in Cockermouth, and his final...
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Antinous, the charm of beauty, Exhibition dedicated to Emperor Hadrian’s lover
For the first time, the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Latium Villa Adriana Antiquarium opens an exhibition dedicated to Antinous. Fifty works including sculptures, reliefs, gems and...
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All Night at the Sea
I am a lover of all-night cultural events. In the past years I already explored many a european city on the occasion of an All-Nighter. Paris, actually, is a city I almost exclusively know by night....
View ArticleMichael Petry: A Touch of the Oracle
The new installation by artist Michael Petry, “A Touch of The Oracle” ,currently on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum fully engages all the senses. Combining color, amorphous shapes, shadow, sound,...
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At Play 2012 South Hill Park Bracknell Exhibition Review
At Play 2012 South Hill Park, Bracknell. You wouldn’t automatically think of Bracknell as a hub for contemporary art in the South East, however it must be said that South Hill Park is a diamond in the...
View ArticleMark Bradford at SFMOMA (Review)
A must-see for anyone engaged with contemporary at the simply titled, Mark Bradford mid-career retrospective of artist manages to communicate the highlights and the spirit of the American artist. I...
View ArticleSwept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design (review)
Swept Away is a understated and incredibly poignant exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Art and Design. Curator David Revere McFadden takes on unusual materials by presenting the use of the...
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Art And Attractions Along New York’s No. 7 Line
By Catherine Kirkpatrick For art and urban scenery, Manhattan’s Chelsea district may be the destination of choice for visitors to New York, but with little more than a metro card and an adventurous...
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Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012 at the Hayward Gallery, London
I had never seen an exhibition all about ‘invisible’ art before, nor had ever really thought much about art that you can’t see. But I was at a loose end and it was raining so I thought why not. The...
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The Getaway Guide for Men – Rome!
The eternal city has more culture, romance and swarthiness than George Clooney and Penelope Cruz’s lovechild draped in Dolce & Gabbana. Even people who haven’t visited know this to be true and,...
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The Getaway Guide for Men – Paris!
“The only thing wrong with Paris is …” the cliché we all know and shamelessly love is not entirely unfounded. Parisians are renowned – even in the rest of France – for their acrimony over their...
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Thomas Houseago – Hauser and Wirth, London
As Thomas Houseago takes over both the North and South galleries of Hauser and Wirth London with two exhibitions “I’ll be your sister” and “Special Brew” it offers us a breadth of opportunity to...
View ArticleLost Horizons: how the Scottish National Gallery revitalised a forgotten master
Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape Scottish National Gallery, the Mound, Edinburgh (Academy / Lower galleries) 30th June ? 28th October 2012 This summer, the...
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Amidst Art and Wilderness in Arizona
I stood at the top of Cathedral Rock, overlooking the clutter of red rocks in the distance. Below, cars trailed across the landscape on pieces of gray ribbon, looping intricately around dull desert...
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