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All At Once

  The Royal College of Art this year presented its annual MA Fashion show at 27 Cork St. A large-scale, immersive event, All at Once, investigated fashion as designed identities and took the form of a dynamic installation that combined structural interventions and a diverse ensemble of 50 models; a spectral chess. What transpired was a live and… Read more »

Announcement: Cork Street Welcomes Goodman Gallery

Goodman Gallery, a pre-eminent art gallery on the African continent, is celebrated as the first gallery on Cork Street,occupying the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designed space at number 26. Ushering in a new era for modern and contemporary art in London, the gallery, founded in 1966, arrives with a reputation for platforming art that… Read more »

Alive Moment: Block Universe at Cork Street Galleries

Sophie Jung presents a major performance and installation at Cork Street Galleries as part of this year’s Block Universe festival.Founded by Louise O’Kelly in 2015, Block Universe is an annual platform for fostering and encouraging work in the live medium, run by an all-female team including O’Kelly, Katharina Worf, Tatjana Damm and Xica Aires. For… Read more »

House Guests: Condo at Cork Street Galleries

Condo, the international collaborative exhibition is welcomed at Cork Street for its 2019 iteration, where a creative exchange between nine galleries takes place. Koppe Astner; Project Native Informant; Mother’s Tankstation and Dan Gunn host Berlin’s Sandy Brown, Société and Kow; Galerie Max Mayer (Düsseldorf) and Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles), pooling resources and acting communally…. Read more »

Radical Man: Hettie Judah in conversation with John Dunbar

As co-founder of London’s Indica in the ’60s, John Dunbar made counterculture culture. Fifty years on, the gallery’s artists such as Yoko Ono and Liliane Lijn remain fascinating. In the closing weeks of 1965, London’s art scene got a jolt of new life with the arrival of Indica, an alternative bookshop and gallery spread over… Read more »

Cork Street Uncorked: John Dunbar in conversation with James Mayor

The Mayor Gallery, founded by Fred Mayor, opened in 1925 at 37 Sackville Street. Closing in 1926, it re-emerged as Cork Street’s inaugral art space at 18 Cork Street in 1933. A spirited supporter of modern English art, The Mayor Gallery hosted the first show from Unit One in April 1934, a grouping of artists… Read more »

The Chain: Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Phillipe Parreno

Past, present and other planes, Parreno anticipates his new show in Berlin. Philippe Parreno’s new exhibition runs from 25th May to 5th August at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau, presented by Berliner Festspiele as part of the programme series Immersion. But here’s the thing: it’s already happened – or rather a version of it has, in another realm…. Read more »

The Other Palace: Stefan Kalmár in conversation with Bill McAlister

Commanding a 13 year tenure, Bill McAlister steered the Institute of Contemporary Arts through the Thatcher years. Here he meets the Institute’s bright new firebrand Stefan Kalmár for the first time, recounting his experience – and giving Kalmár his blessing. Founded in 1946 by Geoffrey Grigson, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, Peter Gregory, E.L.T. Mesens and… Read more »

Version 2.0: Tim Marlow in conversation with architect Sir David Chipperfield

On the occasion of Frieze Academy Art & Architecture Conference 2017, the Royal Academy’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow engaged in conversation with Sir David Chipperfield, the architect behind the RA’s 2018 transformative development. Far more than an extension, the project marks the Academy’s 250th anniversary with its eyes on the future. In May 2018, the… Read more »