Necrospective Review, Grand Union, Birmingham
As the heated embers of the summer sun are suddenly dashed with September’s miserable icy rain an unexpected feeling of excitement and elation is bestowed upon the city of Birmingham.
As the heated embers of the summer sun are suddenly dashed with September’s miserable icy rain an unexpected feeling of excitement and elation is bestowed upon the city of Birmingham.
This is The Turner Prize 2012, in the year of royal jubilation, sport spectacle and debt, where all eyes are on London. Expectations, as always, are high as four finalists’ works are revealed at Tate.
New Sensations is due to open on 9 October. Showcasing the leading graduate talents, New Sensations, developed by the Saatchi Gallery, is aimed at shining a light on the best emerging artists.
Founded in 2008, 830 Sign incorporates streamlining trends with a modern take on classics. Inspired by arts, architecture and anatomy, the collections appeal to versatile and avant-garde minds.
Hockney to Hogarth unites the works of 18th century artist William Hogarth, and contemporary artist David Hockney, who both completed a series of works entitled A Rake’s Progress.
Ben Gold was destined to be a photographer. His fate was sealed when, as a teenager experimenting with his camera, he discovered his family house was once owned by founders of Magnum.
John Akomfrah opens his first exhibition for Caroll/Fletcher this Friday. Hauntologies reveals the virtuosity and depth of his practice, as he considers on disappearance, memory and death.
Alpha-Ville 2012 is opening this weekend. Presenting to their guests both Alpha-Ville Live and Alpha-Ville Screening, this London based organisation is dedicated to the promotion of digital culture.
Encounters returns with an even wider and more diverse spectrum of fascinating films, negotiating subjects ranging from the claustrophobia of captivity to the accidental beauty of the workplace.
Rosie Martin’s DIY Couture is the latest publication to hit the shelves, encouraging consumers to pick up a pair of fabric shears and a few bobbins, plug in the sewing machine and get started.
Long forgotten from the Fukushima disaster, Yasusuke Ota turns our attention to the animals left behind in The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima at Huis Marseille from 3 until 14 October.
Moving Image will be returning to the Bargehouse in London’s South Bank this October. The art fair, this year partnering with Aesthetica, will be showcasing 35 single-channel videos and installations.
Klein + Moriyama examines the importance of the urban environment for two of post-war photography’s most compelling and elusive figures.
The rock and roll lifestyle may be all glamour to an outsider, but rockumentary Hit So Hard shows precisely how one musician paid the price for fame.
Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag celebrate their 20th anniversary. A new book examines their unique fusion of graphic design, art, music and fashion.
Formento & Formento is a partnership between BJ and Richeille Formento. Based in the USA, the pair creates cinematic images that rest somewhere between fine art and fashion photography.
Tim Walker presented a breathtakingly surreal exhibition, Story Teller at Somerset House, which combined the worlds of art and fashion.
A new exhibition at SFMOMA surveys the work of artists from six cities that have become burgeoning artistic centres, exploring the changing nature of today’s international artistic landscape.
Musical instrument designers are pushing their creations in new and unexpected directions. In the process, the instruments themselves are becoming a lot more than just tools for making music.
