ACUTE ART DIRECTOR DANIEL BIRNBAUM IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST R. H. QUAYTMAN The pioneering artist Hilma af Klint secretly spent years visualising the intangible. Now virtual reality is having a turn. As one of the world’s most prominent curators and director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, Daniel Birnbaum found himself as something of a Hilma af… Read more »
South Africa’s Goodman Gallery has committed to a programme promoting social justice since it was founded in 1966. Now Liza Essers, its principal since 2008, is set to open an overseas space on Cork Street, bringing pioneering voices from Africa and beyond to London. When the art dealer Liza Essers bought South Africa’s Goodman Gallery… Read more »
Andrew Hale in Conversation with Frieze Media and Event Founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover From printed page to Regent’s Park – even Hollywood. Great magazines create culture, not just report on it. Frieze catalyses conversation all year round. The art world without Frieze would be unimaginable now. Founded out of passion and curiosity… Read more »
Investing in artists and audience, not-for-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire is every bit as colourful as its director. At a recent fundraising dinner for Studio Voltaire, Joe Scotland, the head of the vital South London not-for-profit arts organisation swished through the room in an ankle-length rainbow frock constructed by his friend, Ashish. Cutting a startling… Read more »
In 1938, Peggy Guggenheim opened a gallery at 30 Cork Street, championingthe fantastic artists she’s now so synonymous with. Pilar Ordovasthrows light on this formative (and overlooked) period in a new exhibition. Peggy Guggenheim is now best known for amassing the stellar collection of radical twentieth century art which is still housed in the Venetian… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Neville Wakefield weighs in on heading beyond the gallery (or not); the state of contextual challenging – and why for today’s artists, social media is like venturing into the American West. Working in curation, creation and text, Neville Wakefield is a master at spinning plates, both enabling culture and dissecting it, all with envied independence…. Read more »
From films to installations and performances, Artangel enables works with a sense of magic and otherworldliness about them, in unexpected places. Indeed it has helped a roll-call of celebrated artists realise more than 125 exceptional projects since 1991. Co-directed by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, Artangel exists to commission and produce ambitious ideas in surprising… Read more »
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