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Renowned for impeccable tailoring with unexpected elements lurking beneath each perfect cut, Paul Smith rose from a single, tiny shop in Nottingham.
Renowned for impeccable tailoring with unexpected elements lurking beneath each perfect cut, Paul Smith rose from a single, tiny shop in Nottingham.
“Fortuna” is a concept employed by the acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge to describe his creative process. It implies more than simple chance but less than a fully conceived plan: a kind of engineered luck.
Milius, the first feature-length documentary from director duo Zak Knutson and Joey Figueroa, unearths the real character of John Milius.
In Mister John, Gillen straddles two worlds – the one he wishes to leave behind and an alternative existence occupied by someone he once knew, but no more.
Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor and installation artist who is interested in the potential of materials. Her latest involvement is with Glasstress, as one of 65 artists challenged to work with glass.
It’s an outstanding feat for any British film company to reach its first birthday – Warp has hit 10 consecutive anniversaries, adding yet more titles to its body of work.
Barging its way through 12 tracks of stormy, experimental guitars, Hawk Vs Pigeon succeeds in completing a compelling, and totally bonkers album.
Tracing a landscape of signs, buildings and interiors, Jim Dow’s photographs record the character of a past era. Beginning in the 1960s, he has continued to capture these elements all over the world.
With over 500 pages of superb colour images, the canvases for the work range from book covers, magazines and posters to scarves, apps and music videos.
The Rifles’ fourth album, None the Wiser, is a fast paced indie rollercoaster which finds the band’s trademark rock and roll sounds once more.
Cally Whitham records the ordinary, transforming it into a surreal landscape, reflecting the way places are perceived through nostalgia and memory.
Osborne Samuel displays the work of three of the UK’s leading contemporary photographers, each of whom use their medium to provide unique and powerful insights into the lives and traditions of various communities and individuals.
Mark Bradford’s second show at White Cube, Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank, is soaked in a richly violent dialogue examining the monotonous blood vessels that unite all the vital organs of America – the highways.
For the second time, the Michael Hoppen Gallery opens Splinter, a one-day art fair on 30 November. As before, the event will offer a wide range of 19th, 20th and 21st century photography.
The animalistic and savage creatures of MBE award-winning sculptor, Nicola Hicks, find their home at Flowers Gallery, New York. Full of a quiet expression, these towering straw and plaster figures set out to explore the nature of character.
The Uneventful Day brings together the unique and interconnected work of three young artists: Jim Woodall, Alexander Page and Luke Burton. The show examines humanities’ relationship with landscape and architecture.
Phantoms in the Front Yard, an all-male painting collective that exalts the romantic vision of old-world figurative realism in art, has just unveiled a pop-up exhibition at the HSBC headquarters in Vancouver.
Philip Davenport curates the world premiere of The Dark Would as part of the Summerhall Winter Visual Arts Programme. This exhibition seeks to re-position artists alongside poets and “outsiders” and free up space for a new wave of practitioners.
Bob Dylan, known more so for his poetry, music and writing, began introducing his artwork to the world with an exhibition of his Drawn Blank Series in 2007 at the Kunstsammlungen in Chemnitz, Germany.
