DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture at Tate Liverpool

Carol Ann Duffy response to the  DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture was to write a new sonnet entitled POETRY that is integrated within this exciting exhibition. Carol Ann Duffy has constructed an installation that asks visitors to involve themselves with the display by re-arranging the words of the sonnet, thereby creating an original and unlimited poem. Tate Liverpool has collaborated with world renowned hat...

The Sensory World of Pipilotti Rist at The Hayward Gallery

First major public survey show in the UK of the acclaimed video artist features a major new film installation and outdoor light sculpture Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist is a pioneer of video art, acclaimed for her innovative installations. Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage is her first major public survey show in the UK, presenting videos, sculptures and installations, and bringing together over 30 works spanning her...

The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny: The Past Was A Mirage Id Left Far Behind

The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny is displayed in Gallery 2, a dedicated space for site-specific works of art that was previously the reading room of the former Whitechapel Library. Inspired by the history of the Library as a creative haven for early modernist thinkers such as Isaac Rosenberg and Mark Gertler, McElheny’s new work explores the history of abstraction in film and video, reinterpreting them by...

Leo Fitzmaurice You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen at The New Art Gallery Walsall

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a new commission by British artist Leo Fitzmaurice. This site-specific installation has been created in response to the architecture of the gallery’s stunning Floor 4 Gallery. Leo Fitzmaurice collects, edits and re-presents the visual noise that forms part and parcel of 21st century life. For his solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, he will transform...

Tate St Ives Summer Exhibition 2011

Summer season 2011 at Tate St Ives brings an eclectic mix of modern and contemporary works to the galleries. Devised as a series of independent one-room displays, it features important works from the Tate Collection, as well as significant loans. Juxtaposing artists and works from different generations, the common emphasis will be on space, structure and light. The show responds directly and playfully to the unique...

Summer Exhibitions at Victoria Art Gallery Bath

Two exciting exhibitions that run until October at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. The gallery large permanent collection. On display, are paintings by Gainsborough, Turner and Sickert, and many other leading artists from the 15th century to the present day. Decorative arts include collections of pottery, porcelain, glass and watches. Mark Angus: Flying Figures Works on glass and paper   Originally from Bath,...

Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens

JMW Turner (1775 – 1851) visited Margate throughout his life. He used his imagination and experience of nature to create extraordinary paintings conjured from his mind’s eye and often stimulated by the light and landscape of the Kent coast. The exhibition centres on Turner’s extraordinary painting The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812,...

Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want (Hayward Gallery) By Polly Allen

Possibly the most Marmite artist of our time (you either love her or hate her, much like the famous spread), Emin’s retrospective was always going to turn heads. Try dropping her name into casual conversation and you’ll see what I mean. On a personal note, I’m unashamedly biased towards her, having admired her textual art and used it as the basis for my undergraduate dissertation. However, in the case of this...

Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters at Dulwich Picture Gallery By Alan O’Cain

The recently announced death at age 83 of American artist Cy Twombly adds incredible poignancy to the new exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, which is just a 12-minute train journey south from London and the country’s oldest dedicated art space. To mark the gallery’s 200th Anniversary, exciting young curator Nicholas Cullinan has followed up the work he did for Tate’s 2008 Cy Twombly retrospective by...

Young people are trying to say something… Let’s listen to them by Maria Iotova

What I marked on this week’s calendar is of special interest because it is directly involving “fresh creators”, and why not some of tomorrow’s big names. City College Brighton and Hove’s Art & Design End of Year Show is presenting the final projects from over 300 graduates of fine art, photography, fashion, graphics and design. To be honest, I am not sure if I would have found out what is going on in...