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The word curate has been hijacked by pop culture, describing everything from house blends at coffee shops to the product haul at zeitgeisty boutiques. So why shouldn’t a figure like Polly Staple, already tagged a ‘critical friend’, think outside the box, likening her role to that of a music producer? Interview by Andrew Hale. Polly… Read more »
The white box is a tried and tested template. But what about creating galleries and studios that artists actively respond to? 6a founder Tom Emerson explains why their spaces are about more than looking good on camera – in fact, it’s a question of what the camera can’t readily see. Interview by Andrew Hale. The… Read more »
Artist Ryan Gander recently purchased a former radio factory in the village of Melton, close to his home in Suffolk. Called, Solid House, Gander has worked with Matheson Whiteley Architects to convert the mid-80s brick and corrugated steel shed into a studio, gallery and workshops, along with accommodation for residency artists. Here Jonathan P. Watts… Read more »
Today, London is regarded as a crucial centre for worldwide contemporary art, but this has not always been the case. For much of the twentieth century London was nothing like the global art hub that it is now, instead it was a cultural backwater, cut off from the major avantgarde movements – Dada, Surrealism, Abstraction,… Read more »
Cork Street Correspondent: Being the manager of such a venerable institution must be quite a task, how are you settling in? Paul Jackson: Having been fortunate to have started my career with The Savoy Hotel Group some 30 years ago at The Connaught, The Lancaster Hotel in Paris and Claridge’s, returning after so many years has felt like coming home,… Read more »
Wallpaper*, the world’s foremost design and lifestyle magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this September with a 500+ page issue and an exhibition at Cork Street Galleries. Here, Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers talks to designer Tom Dixon about two decades of design. Tom Dixon: Twenty years ago, way back in 1996, what were you doing? Tony Chambers: I was working as… Read more »
We tend to think about gallery spaces in terms of the work shown within them, and less about the spaces themselves – where they are located and how gallerists and their artists choose them. In addition, in the current contemporary landscape where art is now viewed and consumed in new ways, we need to ask… Read more »
With its grand premises on Piccadilly fronted by a monumental bronze statue of its first president, the 18th century painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy of Arts seems the epitome of the British art establishment. But appearances can be deceptive. Yes, the RA was founded in 1768 through a personal act of King George… Read more »
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