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Light. We have built pyramids to worship it, sundials to utilise it and, more recently in our relatively short homo sapien history, solar panels to harness and regenerate it. This month at Hayward Gallery, 23 artists heralding from Venezuela to Wales have been brought together for their work with this…
Since the Raven Row Gallery regularly champions overseas artists and those with a political interest – it’s not a surprise that this February they will be presenting Bela Kolarova’s first posthumous retrospective since her death in 2010. Having only received significant attention in the last few years, this new show,…
Edouard Manet is probably best known for his highly controversial painting Olympia, the scandalously and decidedly naked Parisian prostituée with her arresting gaze. But the woman depicted in Olympia is just one of a whole host of models who sat for the French nineteenth-century painter. This month, the Royal Academy of…
It may be a couple of years since a new kind of gourmet burger (big, messy, tasty et cetera) has invaded the capital, but we’re still loving ’em – especially as many of those roving sensations like Meat Liquor and Honest Burger are not only living up to the hype,…
When Kurt Schwitters arrived in Britain as a refugee from Nazi Germany, he was already a key figure in European Dadaism. The work produced by the German artist during this time from 1940 until his death in Cumbria in 1948, is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.…
If you’re a self-confessed perfectionist out there who swoons over clean-cut lines and shiver with satisfaction at exact tessellation, Art Space Gallery is the place for you this month. Curator Deanna Petherbridge has brought together a selection of works by four abstract artists who appear to share your passion for…