Pace Gallery’s second exhibition with Trevor Paglen coincides with two solo exhibitions presented at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (4th September 2020 – 14th March 2021) and at OGR Turin (10th October 2020 – 10th January 2021). At 6 Burlington Gardens until 10th November, and on the gallery’s digital platform, works explore Paglen’s central… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Live art collective The Neo Naturists are combining forces with seminal post–punk band and ‘Godmothers of Grunge’ The Raincoats in celebration of the launch of House of Voltaire’s Christmas Shop and the unveiling of The Neo Naturists’ Christmas Tree. Wednesday 20 November 2019, 6–9pm House of Voltaire, 31 Cork Street, Mayfair W1 This special seasonal… Read more »
House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire’s lauded art and design store returns to Cork Street for its 2019 iteration, dealing in everything from Rose Wylie blankets to Cory Archangel pool sliders. Drawing inspiration from influential artist’s shops including Keith Haring’s Pop Shop and the Bloomsbury Group’s Omega Workshop, House of Voltaire offers a new way for… Read more »
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