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Letter from London

Letter from London: Turner Blind Eye

by Ben Street | Nov 15, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Turner Blind Eye

by Ben Street | Nov 15, 2010

The Otolith Group ought to win this year’s Turner Prize, if their installation at Tate Britain is anything to go by, which it isn’t. Tate Britain’s press department must really …

New Ways of Walking

by Lily Rossebo | Nov 7, 2010

New Ways of Walking

by Lily Rossebo | Nov 7, 2010

When I first arrived in Scotland to study in the Art, Space + Nature program, I was confronted with the question, “Are you keen on hillwalking?” Not quite sure if …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Time of Your Life

by Ben Street | Nov 1, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Time of Your Life

by Ben Street | Nov 1, 2010

Christian Marclay’s The Clock (now on show at White Cube, Mason’s Yard) is a twenty-four hour long film which, unlike other very long art films like Douglas Gordon’s Twenty-Four Hour …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Interview with AIDS-3D

by Alex Freedman | Oct 21, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Interview with AIDS-3D

by Alex Freedman | Oct 21, 2010

Affiliated with a vivacious current of young artists melding techie chops and ’90s graphic aesthetics, the Berlin-based duo, AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmos) popped up on the radar last …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Frieze of Access

by Ben Street | Oct 18, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Frieze of Access

by Ben Street | Oct 18, 2010

As part of this year’s Frieze Art Fair, Simon Fujiwara, the winner of the 2010 Cartier award, has conjured up a faux-archaeological Roman site, bits of which are sometimes exposed …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

René Daniëls is a really, really good painter, maybe even a great painter, who stopped painting twenty-three years ago and has only resumed in the last two years. In 1987, he …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Spoils of War

by Ben Street | Sep 20, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Spoils of War

by Ben Street | Sep 20, 2010

There’s a new display at the Imperial War Museum, London, orchestrated by the artist Jeremy Deller, which consists of a burnt-out, red-brown car, mangled in an an explosion in Baghdad …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

This week in the roundup … Barbara Kruger gets a celebration started, Cao Fei has her eyes on a prize, Cai Guo-Qiang goes in with a bang, Raymond Pettibon is into …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Alfredo Jaar and Andrea Zittell go natural, Bruce Nauman tries to get off the ground, Cai Guo-Qiang answers questions about the impact of social visibility in …

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

My favorite things in Pallant House, the excellent gallery of modern British art in Chichester on the south coast of England, are a couple of small models made before its …
Pepón Osorio, Drowned in a Glass of Water

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 27, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 27, 2010

This week in Roundup read about Pepón Osorio’s drowned art, Allora & Calzadilla getting shortlisted, Janine Antoni in motion, and a Hiroshi Sugimoto/James Turrell art counterpoint. Allora & Calzadilla are …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Young Americans

by Ben Street | Jul 19, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Young Americans

by Ben Street | Jul 19, 2010

The “must-see show of the summer” is not, despite what the adverts on the buses might have you believe, the John Richardson-curated Picasso show at Gagosian Gallery. Not nearly as …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Tense Present

by Ben Street | Jul 6, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Tense Present

by Ben Street | Jul 6, 2010

Let us assume there are two boxes on a table. In one box, there is a relatively normal turtle; in the other, Adolf Hitler’s skull. You have to select one …

An unlikely gift horse

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 3, 2010

An unlikely gift horse

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 3, 2010

A short post today and a follow-up, of sorts, to my earlier post Timing is Everything.  It was announced on Thursday afternoon that Charles Saatchi would be gifting a substantial …

It lives in public

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 30, 2010

It lives in public

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 30, 2010

It is base-level arts conversation but it is the very one that I have had most in my life.  Like the best conversations, everybody has an opinion, whether you are …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about a retrospective in the Golden State, a pack of wolves in Singapore, a dreamy gift in Berlin, de-monumentalisation in Italy, Oprah culture the …

All things to all men

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 25, 2010

All things to all men

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 25, 2010

Over the past ten years, an interesting and forward-looking trend among contemporary art galleries in the United Kingdom  has been the aim to secure a legacy beyond the general functions …

Timing is Everything

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 22, 2010

Timing is Everything

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 22, 2010

London’s Hayward Gallery re-opened to the public this past Saturday with two new exhibitions. Headlining is The Edges of the World, a solo show by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who …

New guest blogger: Ajay RS Hothi

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 21, 2010

New guest blogger: Ajay RS Hothi

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 21, 2010

Thanks to Caroline Lagnado for her plethora of terrific posts. Up next is Ajay RS Hothi. Ajay RS Hothi is a London-based documentary maker and writer.  His films focus on …
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Art21 Extended Play

Yinka Shonibare MBE: “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 18, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Yinka Shonibare MBE: “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 18, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE SUPPORT ART21: It seems like only yesterday that the 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign kicked off! Now with 32 days …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll find two island exhibitions, some curiosities of Monaco, a photographer who pushes buttons, and a group of artists who keep it real: Indianapolis Island, a floating …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Tate at Ten

by Ben Street | May 31, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Tate at Ten

by Ben Street | May 31, 2010

There’s a display outside one of the shops in Tate Modern, showing visitors’ comments written on little cards. That visitors’ comments are encouraged at all, let alone actually displayed in …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

In today’s roundup: football art for South Africa, an overgrown baby in Los Angeles, an origami ship from London, body tissue in Bristol, humans behaving like pigs in Milan, flashing lights …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Barnstormer

by Ben Street | May 17, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Barnstormer

by Ben Street | May 17, 2010

“Time-based art” is a great new contemporary art phrase to drop into conversations, with the redoubtable Orwellian tautology of “movement-based dancing” or “sound-based music.” It’s one of those phrases that …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness

by Nick Ravich | May 14, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness

by Nick Ravich | May 14, 2010

Art21’s Season 6, at least as far as video production is concerned, is getting a little more real everyday.  We’re deep in the throes of pre-producing our first honest-to-god shoot …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Paint, Misbehaving

by Ben Street | May 3, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Paint, Misbehaving

by Ben Street | May 3, 2010

Writing about painting isn’t easy, simply because painting isn’t built to be written about. So writers writing about painting tend to rely on a checklist of clichés: the one about …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Avant-garde cinema, organic designs, sculpture theory, animal extinction, and more in today’s roundup: Dead or Alive, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), will showcase the work …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

This week’s roundup is dedicated to the ladies: On Sunday, April 18, a public commemoration will be held for Season 4 artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Battlin’ Tatlin

by Ben Street | Apr 5, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Battlin’ Tatlin

by Ben Street | Apr 5, 2010

Poor old Vladimir Tatlin. Having been ruthlessly picked-apart in numberless modernist critiques, his thwarted architectural ambitions have yet again provided the basis for a work of contemporary art. Anish Kapoor’s design …
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Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority (2)

by Ben Street | Mar 22, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority (2)

by Ben Street | Mar 22, 2010

There’s a lot of discussion and almost no consensus about the difference between ethics and morals, so let’s be broad about it: both are proposals about how to live. Those …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about three kids in Switzerland, political defiance, Latin American photography, a map upstate, Opera House sails, the nature of light, and airborne balls: The Family, …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Christa Holka

by Georgia Kotretsos | Feb 26, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Christa Holka

by Georgia Kotretsos | Feb 26, 2010

Christa Holka is an American photographer based in London. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London, a BFA …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Biennials, cremated canvases, German faces, cashmere sportswear, sculptural tour de force, fashionable shoes, and an iPhone app comprise this week’s roundup: 2010: Whitney Biennial will open at the Whitney Museum …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Chris Ofili, A Mixtape

by Ben Street | Feb 1, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Chris Ofili, A Mixtape

by Ben Street | Feb 1, 2010

Making mixtapes is one of life’s great non-transferable skills; its lack of import in a pragmatic sense is inversely proportional to the amount of time and effort it requires (rewinding, …