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No.9 Cork Street: Frieze Collect The Keys

Frieze, the art tour de force is set to arrive at Cork Street with an enduring project and a dedicated address. Launching in October 2021, Frieze will present No.9 Cork Street, a hub for international gallery residencies in the heart of Mayfair, at the centre of London’s gallery district. (Cork Street, just north of the… Read more »

Louise Hayward on Cork Street, curating and Lisson Gallery’s esteemed history

“It’s impossible to quantify how art has enriched my life,” declares Louise Hayward, Senior Director at Lisson Gallery. “I’ve worked closely with Ryan Gander for almost 20 years and he is someone who sees the world in such a lateral way. Spending time with him or John Akomfrah or Marina Abramović has opened up a… Read more »

Trevor Paglen: Bloom

Pace Gallery’s second exhibition with Trevor Paglen coincides with two solo exhibitions presented at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (4th September 2020 – 14th March 2021) and at OGR Turin (10th October 2020 – 10th January 2021). At 6 Burlington Gardens until 10th November, and on the gallery’s digital platform, works explore Paglen’s central… Read more »

BBC News spotlights Frieze Week on Cork Street

Usually attracting around 60,000 visitors from around the world, this year’s Frieze was a week like no other, a programme across a myriad of experiences, virtual and real. While Frieze Sculpture remained in the open air of Regents Park, the fair moved online and became absorbed into physical galleries across London – of which Cork… Read more »

Frieze Week: Cork Street Galleries welcomes Studio Voltaire, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, Frieze Live and Stephen Friedman Gallery.

While this year’s edition of Frieze transforms from sprawling Regent’s Park structure to an online viewing room, with all its comfort and intimacy, Cork Street Galleries are pleased to announce an exciting physical programme in Mayfair. Studio Voltaire, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, Frieze Live and Stephen Friedman Gallery join the permanent roster of galleries… Read more »

A brush with… Rashid Johnson, a podcast by The Art Newspaper

A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is the new podcast from The Art Newspaper’s The Week in Art team. In the series of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four leading painters about their life and work through their cultural experiences. In this final episode of the inaugural series, American artist Rashid… Read more »

A brush with… Chantal Joffe, a podcast by The Art Newspaper

A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is the new podcast from The Art Newspaper’s The Week in Art team. In the series of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four leading painters about their life and work through their cultural experiences. In this third episode, the American-born British artist Chantal Joffe discusses… Read more »

A brush with… Jenny Saville, a podcast by The Art Newspaper

A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is the new podcast from The Art Newspaper’s The Week in Art team. In the series of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four leading painters about their life and work through their cultural experiences. In this second episode, the Cambridge-born artist Jenny Saville discusses how… Read more »

A brush with… Michael Armitage, a podcast by The Art Newspaper

A brush with…, sponsored by Cork Street Galleries, is the new podcast from The Art Newspaper’s The Week in Art team. In the series of exclusive, in-depth conversations, host Ben Luke interviews four leading painters about their life and work through their cultural experiences. The first episode hears Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage talk about the… Read more »

James Mayor’s Stories From The Mayor Gallery

“Cork Street started being a gallery street with my father, there were a lot of tailors here. And it was bombed during the war. It became a gallery street,” explains James Mayor, director of The Mayor Gallery and son of its founder, Freddie Mayor. Opening at number 18 in 1925, The Mayor Gallery displayed works… Read more »