Exhibition review: “The Arts of Piranesi”
Share On April 25, the exhibition “The Arts of Piranesi” opened at the Caixaforum, Madrid, and it will be open until September 9. The exhibition offers to the public a tour of the history of Piranesi through more than 300 original engravings by the artist. This, together with the additional representations of photographs, illustrations and...
Warfare
Share Warfare A word with implications, Afflicting many nations, A darker side to humans, A side we can’t forget, Warfare keeps on spilling across the world and filling the hearts of its victims with fear, pain and woe, Europe’s war, a beast of economic foundings, A war where we see bankers, aggressors to us all,...
Samurai Jason in Othello, 3rd Scene, 3rd Act
Share I parked the car in the post office parking lot and when I cut the ignition my blues died—or perhaps more to the point, my blues CD died. I walked up the sidewalk to the wide-mouthed blue box and paused in front of it. I saw on the ground (not by any means strange...
Review – The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol
Share Since the appointment of New York businessman/gallerist/polka dot personality Jeffrey Deitch as director in June 2010, MOCA has left the Los Angeles art world puzzled, applauding and horrified. Deitch’s latest project for Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol is a slightly confused, apparently hastily hung show that...
The 1st of 8 LACE’s projects: Hunt & Darton Café
Share On Thursday the 3rd of May two pineapples started to serve canapés, wine and ‘subtle interventions’ at 100 Regent Street in Cambridge. It was the launch of the Hunt & Darton Café, an ‘interactive intervention’ run by two artists, Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton, that ‘hires’ live artists as waiters, aiming to change the...
Herb Ritts L.A. Style – Herb Ritts: Photographer, Film director, Philanthropist, Activist
Share When President Obama announced on May 9, 2012 that he supports same- sex marriage, the current exhibition “Herb Ritts L.A. Style” at the J. Paul Getty Museum gets a whole new meaning. It showed how Herb Ritts – fashion, celebrity, and nude photographer (1952-2002) – bridged the gap between art and commerce. Not...
From Body to Soul – and Back by Maria Anna Potocka
Share Sport is one of civilization’s most spectacular inventions. In spite of this, its role has never been sufficiently explored. It is difficult to justify such neglect, and all the more difficult because sport is one of the important prostheses for our complicated imperfection. The Triumph of the Spirit over Biology Over the course...
The artist as a change leader in Saudi Arabia: Abdulnasser Gharem
Share Abdulnasser Gharem was one of the pioneers of what is recognized today as the contemporary art movement in Saudi Arabia. He was among the handful who, back in 2004, in a small hilly town called Abha, wrought up the vision that has slowly and irrevocably materialized in the Kingdom today as the dawn of...
Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
Share 9 February – 27 May 2012 It’s rare to leave an exhibition feeling totally exhausted, but this one requires so much concentration that I was definitely exhilarated and exhausted! Lucian Freud went in and out of fashion but stayed true to his own vision as a realist painter, starting out in the 1960s when it...
Sport in Art – at MOCAK Krakow
Share Sport in Art after History in Art, the second exhibition in the series which shows how artists see the issues that matter in people’s everyday lives. Sport performs a terrific therapeutic role, relieving us of layers of animal aggression. Mankind has hit on a great idea: how to fight and triumph, without causing any...
Michael Petry: A Touch of the Oracle
Share 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, and scent, Petry provides more than enough stimulus to engage and excite the casual viewer. For those who love art that makes...
Ginevra addresses Leonardo
Share The darker the shadow, the brighter the light… ‘I’m painting with colours not with black and white. I have to use colours to make you shine, Ginevra.’ I never said the shadow’s black and the light white, dear. ‘You didn’t…’ You need your shadow to be dark, but warm. A warm shadow is...
Sadly not supported by the arts council ? Get the badge!
Share It’s been a difficult time for arts organisations. Cutbacks and recessions have made funding even harder to come by. And it was hard to come by anyway. If you have had to remove your supported by the arts council links and don’t know how to replace them… Never fear! The boffin known as artistx,...
Peel and Drag
Share The bus lurches, My hand falling for the fourth Time on the sign that says ‘Do not touch.’ A door opens and the bus Coughs me into the street. It rolls away— I try not to breathe The exhaust As the lumbering whale grinds down the street And disappears, Flipping its blue gray tail...
Oklahoma! at Carnegie Hall
Share Cowboys, farmers, ladies’ bloomers, and hampers filled with sweet potato pie! It was the final night of Oklahoma! at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, and the end of an overall fantastic production put on by the Kelty Musical Association. The classic Rogers and Hammerstein tale really came to life on stage, with a very atmospheric...
The Notebook
Share On June 1st I lost my notebook. I didn’t actually realise I’d lost it until the next day when I found something in a book that I wanted to write down as I thought it relevant to my work, something Alex Katz had said about his work and something somebody else had said about...
Young voices in Saudi art
Share Young amateurs from Saudi Arabia, green but buzzing with energy, showcase a range of eclectic works impossible to lump together in one neat category. This rebellious and chaotic variety is, to a large extent, the event’s charm. At the 2012 edition of Young Saudi Artists, the 44 works by 23 artists scanned...
An art experiment – Berndnaut Smilde’s Indoor Clouds
Share BERNDNAUT SMILDE – Nimbus II, 2012 This indoor cloud experiment was created by the 34-year-old Dutch artist Smilde in the Hotel MariaKapel, a 15th century chapel presentation space just north of Amsterdam. Combining art and science, this piece blurs the boundaries between sculpture, photography and installation. Smilde created this indoor cloud effect...
Cats – jumping on the bandwagon?
Share A review of “The Truth About Cats” by M0lly Brandenburg By Ruth Ingamells We are the cat obsessed generation, and this book caters perfectly for us. As a cat lover myself this book jumped out in its furry glory – could this be the next ‘Simon’s Cat’? The illustration is solid and stylised, not...
Laboratory of Performance and Theatre of Empty: a Brazilian challenge
Share The LPTV – Laboratório de Performance e Teatro do Vazio (Laboratory of Performance and Theatre of Empty - in english) was created in 2010 by alumni and teachers at the University of Brasília, a public university in Brazil’s capital. The group work as an extension project of the University and is coordinated by Dra Simone Reis (professor at...
Join the Flaneur art tweeters and be an art and culture opinion-former
Share Fancy joining our Twitterati team? If you have views on art and culture but don’t feel up to writing full length articles, why not join the Flaneur Twitterati and tell the world what you think in just 140 chararacters? More art tweeters needed! We have a new team of art and fashion and design...
Shakespeare on Screen: Do or Don’t?
Share In Issue 39 (Jan/Feb 2012) of Little White Lies magazine, the publication’s editor, Matt Bochenski, reviewed Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus. In his review, Bochenski claims “there’s no place for William Shakespeare in cinema”, commenting on the “dull drone of a dead language”, and ending his article with the assertion “no more Shakespeare until we agree...
Daniel Buren’s ‘Le décor et son double’: the ambiguity of the public space
Share From the 21st of September 2011 until the 4th of November 2012 Daniel Buren’s exhibition Le Décor et son Double will be on view at S.M.A.K. – the municipal museum for contemporary art in Ghent, Belgium. The show focuses on one single work, a unique artwork which, at the same time, is part of...
“Autumn in Paris” Personal Photographic Exhibition by Fabio Chiarini
Share Fabio Chiarini at RAVAL GALLERY, via dei marsi 50 in Rome. “Some call me a tramp, some a call me traveler, but every single picture, evokes to me a poem, an experience, a person, something that will be remain for all my life”( Fabio Chiarini). Fabio was born in Rome on August 14, 1985...
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