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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 »
“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 »
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 »
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’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 »
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