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The highly-anticipated outdoor pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery is now welcoming visitors from around the world. The annual attraction, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, has been designed by award-winning Spanish architects selgascano, headed by husband and wife duo José Selgas and Lucía Cano. An aerial view of the 2015…
For the past few weeks, Banksy has attempted to woo the good people of New York by unveiling exclusive works around the city. Tourists and fans have been loving the residency (dubbed Better Out than In) – but the NYPD and Major Michael Bloomberg? Not so much. They shut him…
Two women walk across a desert. They move with purpose but don’t appear, at first, to be making any progress: their small steps seem futile across the vast expanse, as if treading water. The hazy backdrop of a mountainous landscape, undefined and unclear through thin veils of sand, serves to…
I had the misfortune of growing up near an Ikea store so became well practised in giving stressed and disgruntled people directions there. But I’ve never been a massive fan or got its widespread appeal. Go into anyone’s homes and you’ll find the same sofas, vases and pictures strewn throughout.…
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…
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…