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If you’re looking to get your mitts on some exclusive art this Christmas, a new pop-up art store featuring rare works from established and emerging artists will be coming to Covent Garden this winter. Beautiful Crime Crime Concept (BCC) will offer a range of prints and gifts showcasing pieces from…
Patrick Caulfield’s work is immediately recognisable for its bold and highly original visual language, which the artist developed and honed over the course of his career. Working with the forms of ordinary domestic objects such as lampshades, vases, window panes and wine glasses, he pares down his subjects to slick…
The press release for Haroon Mirza’s show at Lisson Gallery leaves a lot to the imagination. Six simple bullet points give a very basic description of the works he has installed in the space. Point one: ‘a turntable piece’. Further down: ‘some light works’. Although Mirza’s installations’ have an unembellished,…
The Gagosian has been dealt some real blows in the past year, with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and most recently Yayoi Kusama upping sticks and leaving the gallery for pastures new. But whilst their brigade of contemporary Super Artists may have temporarily depleted in numbers, Gagosian continue to represent the…
“I was vacuumed upwards at a great velocity…I couldn’t feel my weight at all…I could see the horizon clearly as if some curtain were lifted…We don’t have the vocabulary to describe what I felt.” Curious? Who wouldn’t be? At East London’s Matt’s Gallery this month, these otherworldly accounts are the…
It’s an oft-quoted statistic that more photographs were taken in the twelve months of the year 2011 than in the entire history of photography put together. Inevitably our delight and amazement at being able to by capture, fix and keep an image on paper has diminished since the invention of…