Bob and Roberta Smith’s Art Party is due to open on 21 August. The feature film, produced with director Tim Newton and Stuart Cameron of Crescent Arts will be accompanied by a UK-wide Art Party hosted by key venues.
Art history is replete with romantic mythologies, few more potent than the artist as obsessive maker, working round the clock in his studio or in the landscape, as was the case with one of modern art’s most famous obsessives, Paul Cezanne, around whom Magnus Quaife’s solo show is framed.
In conjunction with the opening of the Liverpool Biennial this weekend, Liverpool Contemporary Arts Fair launches at World Museum today. The event is Britain’s newest international art fair, showcasing work by artists from over 50 international galleries.
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs currently on display on the second floor of the Tate Modern brings together an extensive array of Matisse’s cut-outs from a long list of private and public collections.
During the evening of Friday 27 June and the following Saturday afternoon, the artists of Bow Road Studios in London opened their private working spaces and courtyard to the public.
For the London Design Festival, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert has joined forces with Champagne Perrier-Jouët to create a unique glass piece called Human Nature to be installed at the V&A.
Memory Lane explicitly prompts memories as a result of reconstructed history through the means of art. It’s the series of photographs, Tito in War by Milomir Kovačević, that commemorates Tito’s portrait in after-war public spaces.
Votes have been counted for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award, and we are delighted to announce that Sybille Neumeyer is the winner. Her work refers to the endangerment of bees.
Lizzie Cawthray is challenging the outdated notions of knitwear with her fresh, stylish and playful company, Needle. After working as the knitwear product developer at LK Bennet, Cawthray decided to focus her attentions on the versatile material.
It has become a rite of passage for the contemporary poet: the attempt to rewrite classical – specifically, Hellenic – literature for the modern day. Yet though the projects seem comparable, their impulses are often wildly different.
Virginia Damtsa is a contemporary art dealer and the Co-Founder of Riflemaker gallery in London. Moving to Paris when she was selected by the Opera National de Paris to train for a career in dance, she studied in Belgium, New York and Cambridge before moving to London.
In the 21 years since Meltdown’s inception, the festival has played host to a conveyor belt of counterculture greats, including David Bowie, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker and the late John Peel.
The Fashion and Textile Museum has recently opened its new exhibition Made in Mexico. Curator and artist Hilary Simon has sought to explore and reveal elements of the narrative of Mexico’s history.
ROYGBIV&B takes its name from the acronym for the colours of the rainbow, and the interlinking choral voices singing within a web of loudspeakers are meant to represent the idea of that spectrum.
The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries, with a new prize of £5,000 for the Main Prize Winner in addition to group exhibition, publication in an anthology of 100 top emerging artists and editorial coverage in the magazine.
The city-wide Edinburgh Art Festival brings together a diverse line-up of some of the best UK and international artists in a programme of exhibitions, one-off performances and special events at some of Edinburgh’s most unique venues.
The theme for the fifth edition of PhotoIreland Festival is Truth, Fact, Fiction, Lies. Looking at how photography is used for storytelling, the festival presents 27 photographers exhibiting in various venues around the city centre.
Louise Alexander unveils Arik Levy’s first solo show at the gallery. Uncontrolled Nature features a collection of new work in combination with older pieces and Levy showcases a range of sculptures that exist like a trail of landmarks.
Michael Steinpichler was born in Austria but now resides in Costa Rica. Drawing on influences such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, Steinpichler produces vibrant masterpieces, combining a number of subjects, colours and styles.
