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Yinka Shonibare’s Justice For All monumentally re-opens Stephen Friedman Gallery. Viewed from the street, the sculpture is given all the public focus she deserves, illuminat-ed 24/7. Presented for the first time in the UK, the work reconfigures F.W. Pomeroy’s Lady Justice (1905-1906), a figure so famous she lives vividly in the mind, seen, as she… Read more »
As the world locked down over the past months as a consequence of Covid-19, so did all exhibitions. In response, Flowers Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Waddington Custot embraced the possibilities of the digital arena, with four online shows. Now Waddington Custot, who has added British artist David Annesley to its digital solo exhibition series NEW… Read more »
Since early days, Cork Street Galleries has enjoyed a partnership with Frieze Academy’s Art & Architecture Conference. In 2018, the summit’s third iteration took place at Mayfair’s The Royal Institution, a short walk from the street that introduced major art movements to the UK. Hosted by award-winning critic and author Alice Rawsthorn, leading art and… Read more »
Since early days, Cork Street Galleries has enjoyed a partnership with Frieze Academy’s Art & Architecture Conference. In 2018, the summit’s third iteration took place at Mayfair’s The Royal Institution, a short walk from the street that introduced major art movements to the UK. Hosted by award-winning critic and author Alice Rawsthorn, leading art and… Read more »
Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, art, as everything else, has been challenged to adapt. Arguably it is dispositioned to do so, being a field for exchange and ideas. The rise of the online viewing room has kept culture alive while gallery doors are tempo-rarily closed. Fostering a new medium of outreach to a… Read more »
During House of Voltaire’s Cork Street residency, celebrated art critic and CATALOGUE – the Cork Street Galleries magazine – contributor Louisa Buck held court with a monologue on locale history. Arriving as “a parlour light of creativity” beginning with The Mayor Gallery in 1925, Fred Mayor shouldered moral support to the radical European avant-garde. And… Read more »
ACUTE ART DIRECTOR DANIEL BIRNBAUM IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST R. H. QUAYTMAN The pioneering artist Hilma af Klint secretly spent years visualising the intangible. Now virtual reality is having a turn. As one of the world’s most prominent curators and director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, Daniel Birnbaum found himself as something of a Hilma af… Read more »
Last October, Studio Voltaire’s Clapham gallery shuttered to begin its Capital Project, an ambitious renovation and reignition that will vastly expand exhibition space while intergrating affordable artists’ studios. But the not-for-profit organisation isn’t on hold, creating Studio Voltaire elsewhere, a series of ambitious offsite events for 2020 and some of the most pivotal commissions within… Read more »
South Africa’s Goodman Gallery has committed to a programme promoting social justice since it was founded in 1966. Now Liza Essers, its principal since 2008, is set to open an overseas space on Cork Street, bringing pioneering voices from Africa and beyond to London. When the art dealer Liza Essers bought South Africa’s Goodman Gallery… Read more »
Today’s galleries and museums are defined by their encouraging, inclusive spirit – whatever their scale. As new museums spring up around the world like so many cultural mushrooms, the role they perform are evolving. From a social perspective, museums are no longer just places of learning, display and entertainment: they are sites of physical… Read more »
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