Today’s galleries and museums are defined by their encouraging, inclusive spirit – whatever their scale. As new museums spring up around the world like so many cultural mushrooms, the role they perform are evolving. From a social perspective, museums are no longer just places of learning, display and entertainment: they are sites of physical… Read more »
From fabric to the limited-edition page, fashion designer Simone Rocha is fuelled by art, creating Bourgeois clothes with a capital ‘B’. Simone Rocha graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martin’s Fashion MA in 2010 and debuted at London Fashion week the same year, landing with a collection that had the sure hand it takes some… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Cork Street Correspondent: Being the manager of such a venerable institution must be quite a task, how are you settling in? Paul Jackson: Having been fortunate to have started my career with The Savoy Hotel Group some 30 years ago at The Connaught, The Lancaster Hotel in Paris and Claridge’s, returning after so many years has felt like coming home,… Read more »
We tend to think about gallery spaces in terms of the work shown within them, and less about the spaces themselves – where they are located and how gallerists and their artists choose them. In addition, in the current contemporary landscape where art is now viewed and consumed in new ways, we need to ask… Read more »
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