Contemporary Visual Arts highlights in Derry~Londonderry
You’ll know that the Turner Prize is in Derry~Londonderry this year, but there are many other visual arts attractions in the city for visitors to enjoy. From Willie Doherty to Santiago Sierra Derry~Londonderry is full of contemporary art – and as it’s a small city you can easily get around. Careful, some places are closed on...
Contemporary Art: Jonathan Cummins at Patrick Street, Derry-Londonderry
The Turner Prize is not the only contemporary art exhibition on in Derry-Londonderry at the moment. Void is an artist-led contemporary art space housing two gallery spaces and six studios. It shows established international and Irish artists. It is also cooperating with other spaces around the city to facilitate exhibitions for the Year of Culture. When...
Jeff Koons debuts his BMW Art Car in the US at @ArtBasel
Jeff Koons and supermodel Karolína Kurková presented the North American premiere of Koons’ BMW Art Car, the M3 GT2 race car on December 4th, the night of the opening day of Art Basel in Miami Beach. Among the guests were Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern, the curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale, Juan A....
Photos and video from Lumiere Festival – giant art exhibition in Derry-Londonderry
I know there is a debate about the name of Derry~Londonderry, but I didn’t realise there was a third possibility… Public Projection for Derry~Londonderry by Krzysztof Wodiczko (extract) For four nights this autumn artworks of light, projections and fire have been illuminating the evening streets of Derry~Londonderry, the UK’s first City of Culture. Works by seventeen...
Win tickets to the @RoyalAcademy Australia show courtesy of @QantasAirways
The Flaneur has teamed up with Australia’s Qantas airways to offer one lucky reader a pair of tickets to the Australia show at the Royal Academy. Marking the first major survey of Australian art in the UK for 50 years, this exhibition spans more than 200 years from 1800 to the present day and seeks to...
Daniel Linehan – coming soon to the BMW Tate Live online Performance Room
Internationally celebrated rising star of contemporary dance, Daniel Linehan, will choreograph a new performance for the BMW Tate Live Performance Room to be broadcast on 12 December at 20.00 GMT. BMW Tate Live Performance Room is a pioneering strand of live, online performances simultaneously seen by international audiences across world time zones via www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive. This...
See your drawing in this year’s #TurnerPrize in Derry-Londonderry
Art galleries are usually quiet places where the only sound is that of chins being stroked or bored guards chatting to each other. Not so this year’s Turner Prize in Derry~Londonderry, the first room of which hosts a spoof life-drawing class by David Shrigley. Renoir would not have enjoyed drawing this figure. In a break...
Latest London Art Openings #art #London
A selection of the shows that opened in London last night. Hurls Chamber at the Cock ‘n Bull Gallery. New sports are rare. New art-sports are even rarer. This week Jack Stanton and Finbar Ward transformed the subterranean Cock ‘n Bull into the world’s very first Hurls Chamber. This was real I was there stuff, like watching...
Waxwing Exhibitions and @alicejanewoods present Star Food & Wine
An exhibition featuring the work of artists who have undertaken international exchange programs will be open for one week on the 3 floors of the vacant shop space ‘Star Food & Wine’ on Old Street. Through visual arts, performance & collaborative practices and inspired by the diversity of our cultural experiences, the show will promote the...
Students: Win £1000 by designing a boat race poster @BNYMellonRace
Win £1000 and have your design on the cover of the official programme of next year’s BNY Mellon Boat Race! Your school or college will also win £250 of vouchers to spend on art materials. BNY Mellon, Title Sponsors of The BNY Mellon Boat Race, is inviting students across the UK to design a poster...
The London Group exhibition at The Cello Factory
The original London Group artists were very forward-looking, but their shows almost certainly didn’t include QR codes, iPads and inkjet on acetate and paper. Nevertheless there are plenty of working methods that the founders would recognise in this exhibition that celebrates the group’s centenary. Showing at the Cello Factory in Waterloo until 13th December it is...
Team Vienna: Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka – The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Like football teams most exhibitions have definite stars and Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 is no exception. At the National Gallery until 12th January 2014 this is a show that does include other artists, but revels in the artistic experiments of Schiele and Kokoschka and the dainty beauty of Klimt. Iconic portraits...
