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…
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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.…
Half-way into January and still feeling sluggish? Time to head to Holborn, where private gallery DOMOBAAL is showing new works by Sharon Kivland designed to stimulate our conscious and unconscious minds. Artist-writer Kivland is a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London, and Freudian theory…
The daily commute to and from work can make anyone stressed – peak hour travel on the London Underground anyone? So, in the absence of a Kindle, free paper or iPod – anything to brighten the mood has got to be welcomed. The Art of Angel exhibition is seeking to…
In Paris in 1928, a group of Surrealist artists and writers held the first of a series of round-table discussions on eroticism. The loose collective included André Breton, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. Artist Gerard Byrne’s latest multi-screen installation recreating this event is set for its UK premiere at Whitechapel Gallery,…
Imagine multi-screen mixed media presentations fused with music and set in the dark – this is not the latest VJing event but a new exhibition on expanded cinema. This film movement, which came to prominence in Britain in the early 1970s, was conceived as an alternative to mainstream cinema. Expanded…