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Peter Blake’s opus Under Milk Wood, a play by Dylan Thomas, arrives at Cork Street in a dedicated space. The series of over 170 watercolours, collages and drawings illustrates the Welsh poet’s landmark 1953 play for voices. Unveiled at the National Museum of Wales in 2013 to mark the centenary of Thomas’ birth, this special… Read more »
Following Cork Street Attack, the Grey Organisation’s exhibition the invited side of the glass, The Mayor Gallery restages an important 1960s show credited with being one of the first to treat electric light as a new sculptural medium. The occasion? The second solo showing of Billy Apple at Bianchini Gallery in New York City, 1965,… Read more »
On 21st May 1985, the Grey Organisation staged an attack on the galleries at Cork Street. Now, almost 37 years later, the action is fêted in an exhibition at the The Mayor Gallery – one of the galleries they attacked. The artistic anti-establishment protest, actioned during night-time, saw cans of grey paint hurled over the… Read more »
David Shrigley’s exhibition at Stephen Friedman is balls, and though the title teases, anything but tennis. The emphasis in Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange falls hardest on the last word. Through creator / viewer there is always dialogue when encountering art. Here Shrigley tantalisingly celebrates, in the most literal way, the joy of trade. Installing several… Read more »
In a new episode of Talk Art, the series presents a Cork Street special. The podcast, from actor and art enthusiast Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament, has enjoyed conversations with everyone from Laurie Anderson to Wayne McGregor, Glenn Ligon to Roni Horn, Rachel Whiteread to Gilbert & George and Wolfgang Tillmans to Torkwase Dyson…. Read more »
In an historic moment, Gina Fischli becomes the first-ever artist to exhibit banners across Cork Street, the centre of the highest concentration of galleries in London and the spiritual and cultural home of the global art world. The first participant of the Cork Street Banners commission, Fischli’s site-specific installation Ravenous and Predatory (2021) begins 7… Read more »
A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is an engaging podcast from The Art Newspaper In the latest round of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four more leading artists about their life and work through their cultural experiences. Completing this series, Seoul-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh discusses his recreations of his… Read more »
A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is an engaging podcast from The Art Newspaper In the latest round of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four more leading artists about their life and work through their cultural experiences. This week, Columbian-born artist Doris Salcedo, known for her political and mental archaeology relating… Read more »
A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is an engaging podcast from The Art Newspaper In the latest round of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four more leading artists about their life and work through their cultural experiences. We join Ali Banisadr as he anticipates his two-part exhibition in Florence, at the… Read more »
A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is an engaging podcast from The Art Newspaper In the latest round of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four more leading artists about their life and work through their cultural experiences. As her retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ethiopian-born, New York-based… Read more »
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