The Strength of Italian Fashion …?
Is the phrase, the Passion of Italian Fashion, a cliché? While this writer will always cherish a deep, dark, wistfully sentimental affinity with glamour, it’s a word that has been sullied with a decidedly unfa...
The Bride and the Bachelors by Calvin Tomkins: Revised edition by Gagosian Gallery
The Gagosian Gallery has released a revised and expanded edition of Calvin Tomkin’s The Bride and the Bachelors. The original 1965 edition, subtitled The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art, reflected the individ...
Seeing is believing
You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...
The dirty F word
“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...
The time has come, Art Basel 2014
If Art Basel, the world’s premier culmination of modern and contemporary works, is just one of the many anticipated events on your art fair schedule this year, you’ll be very pleased to know that for 2014, the ...
The failure of will – the dark side of human mind
Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, presents Stelios Karamanolis’ new exhibition, The Failure of Will. The artist’s solo show breaks away from the representation of the reality, approaches and reflects on c...
Sensing spaces: architecture reimagined
Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition showcasing seven different spaces from architects from around the world. The concept behind the exhibition is to see how people respon...
A life devoted to art – Malevich at Tate Modern
Tate Modern reveals the multi-faceted works of Kazimir Malevich in a forthcoming show to open in July. This exhibition journeys retrospectively into the almost 25-year long career of the Russian artist from hi...
Up in the clouds
Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...
Through the eye of the beholder
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...
Against the trend
Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...
First exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s Surfers
Venus Over Manhattan will present the first exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s acclaimed “surfer paintings”. Are Your Motives Pure? brings together 40 works from 1987-2012, and includes small, monochrom...
Maria Zahle at the Rooftop Cafe, London Bridge
Floating out at sea like a message in a bottle the understated and hidden Rooftop Cafe confidently bobs along in London Bridge beside the Giant massive ship that is HMS The Shard. Akin to a siren calling to her...
Leading lights
Tate Britain has announced its spring season of BP Spotlights. BP Spotlights are displays of works from the Tate collection that explore particular themes or subjects or focus on the work of one artist. Thi...
Spiritual as Mountains at Pearl Lam Galleries
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong will present Spiritual as Mountains, a group exhibition of contemporary Chinese art inspired by the spirituality of nature and traditional Chinese culture. Curated by Wang Chunchen...
Battle off the canvas
The battles for social ideals have always been hard won, and that is if you deem them to have been won at all. Whatever stage you consider the society around you to be at, these are not wars that ...
Simply does it
In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...
Artistic transgressor
The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...
Private collection of African Tribal Art in Hong Kong
For the first time in Hong Kong, a private collection of original West African art pieces will be showcased. Presented by Harbour of Art, Les Arts Premiers features ritual figures and masks from the Fang, Mambi...
Self-conscious
This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives.
The e...
Gold Vein: Delfina Delettrez AW14
Fine jeweller Delfina Delettrez presents Gold Vein – a suitably surreal offering for AW14. Moving on from her previous work with diamonds, the collection explores the simple beauty of precious coloured stones w...