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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 »
Every word of Bella Freud’s famous knitwear is a different flavour, from ‘Ginsberg Is God’ to ‘Solidarité Feminine’ – and the signature dog is authored by her father, the eminent artist Lucian Freud. Indeed, Freud wears her ancestry with playful irreverence through her fragrance Psychoanalysis, a nod to the pioneering work of her great grandfather,… Read more »
Robert Fraser, the man known as ‘Groovy Bob’, emerged as a pivotal figure of the London art scene in the 1960s – and in commissioning the artwork of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he epitomised a wild and freewheeling era. Reviving his Cork Street gallery in the 80s, Fraser was arguably the first star… Read more »
The Serpentine Pavilion is a landmark of the London calendar and a critical space for exploration. Far from temporary, these illustrious structures have gone on to second lives all over the world, launching many a starchitect. Inspired by a tree from his African village, this summer belongs to Francis Kéré. It’s hard to believe now,… Read more »
As one of the best known voices to come out of the UK in recent years, Jeremy Deller needs little introduction. Working across performance, video, installation, print works, objects and music, his exceptionally diverse practice draws from culture and breathes magically back into it. Francesca Gavin: Hi Jeremy, how are you? Jeremy Deller: Fine, thank… Read more »
The work of Grayson Perry has always sought to ignite and unite, pairing traditional craft with the visceral jab of modern narrative. Still where the etchings of our society meet clay, today Perry is a bona fide household name. How can contemporary art address a diverse cross-section of society? That’s a concern Perry considers in… Read more »
The word curate has been hijacked by pop culture, describing everything from house blends at coffee shops to the product haul at zeitgeisty boutiques. So why shouldn’t a figure like Polly Staple, already tagged a ‘critical friend’, think outside the box, likening her role to that of a music producer? Interview by Andrew Hale. Polly… Read more »
The white box is a tried and tested template. But what about creating galleries and studios that artists actively respond to? 6a founder Tom Emerson explains why their spaces are about more than looking good on camera – in fact, it’s a question of what the camera can’t readily see. Interview by Andrew Hale. The… Read more »
Artist Ryan Gander recently purchased a former radio factory in the village of Melton, close to his home in Suffolk. Called, Solid House, Gander has worked with Matheson Whiteley Architects to convert the mid-80s brick and corrugated steel shed into a studio, gallery and workshops, along with accommodation for residency artists. Here Jonathan P. Watts… Read more »
Today, London is regarded as a crucial centre for worldwide contemporary art, but this has not always been the case. For much of the twentieth century London was nothing like the global art hub that it is now, instead it was a cultural backwater, cut off from the major avantgarde movements – Dada, Surrealism, Abstraction,… Read more »
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