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Jabulani Dhlamini: the everyday waiting

Over the past four months of national lockdown in South Africa, Jabulani Dhlamini has been taking photographs. Titled the everyday waiting, his exhibition at Goodman Gallery London is a none-more-current document of this unprecedented time. “Shooting my surroundings at this time led me to understand that this pandemic is starkly highlighting entrenched social and economic… Read more »

Johannesburg 1948-2018: David Goldblatt at Goodman Gallery London

Goodman Gallery re-opens on July 9th with Johannesburg 1948-2018, South African photographer David Goldblatt’s first major solo exhibition in London since his 1986 Pho-tographer’s Gallery show. A Johannesburg resident for 70 years, Goldblatt worked until shortly before his death in 2018, building a formidable body of work. In the words of art critic and commentator… Read more »

Yinka Shonibare CBE: Justice For All

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 »

Art after Lockdown: Waddington Custot reopens with a continually changing presentation

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 »

Archive: Frieze Academy Art & Architecture Conference presents Ellen Van Loon, Shigeru Ban

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 »

Archive: Frieze Academy Art & Architecture Conference presents Richard Rogers, Jamie Fobert, Kulapat Yantrasast

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 »

Art in Lockdown: Online Viewing at Cork Street

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 »

Field to canvas: Louisa Buck on wild Mayfair and Cork Street’s unflinching arrival

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 »

The Edge of Beyond: Acute Art Director Daniel Birnbaum and artist R. H. Quaytman on the hidden dimensions of Hilma af Klint

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 »

Studio Voltaire elsewhere: Nnena Kalu at Cork Street Galleries

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 »