Provocative and perturbing, the acclaimed artist brings together a visceral collection under one roof for the very first time
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Masterpieces from the Gelman Collection, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Sunday 17 July 2011
Alice Anderson: Tressed for success
Tuesday 05 April 2011
When Tracey Emin met Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday 15 February 2011
The Life of the Mind: Love, Sorrow and Obsession, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Wednesday 09 February 2011
This group show with a rather grandiose title has been curated by a Turner-shortlisted male artist who goes by the name of Bob and Roberta Smith. Smith has been artist-in-residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, combing through a remarkable archive of the works and personal effects of Jacob Epstein, which were bequeathed to the city by Epstein's widow in 1973.
Martin Creed: Mothers, Hauser & Wirth, Savile Row, London
Friday 28 January 2011
This twinset of behemoth galleries near Savile Row, opened by Hauser & Wirth last October, feel more like something that you would find in the post-industrial landscape of New York's Chelsea gallery district, than they do premises located on London's historic tailoring street. They opened with an exhibition of work by the late Louise Bourgeois – her menacing, crouching steel spider sculpture patrolling the galleries. And so, now, we welcome Martin Creed to the space to give it to give it a lick of his likeable shtick. The Turner Prize-winning artist often works in a rule-based way – regularly letting his materials dictate the work. Some of the paintings in this exhibition are made by taking a set of brushes and making a single stripe with every size, so that you end up with something that looks like a set of stairs or a stack of colour, in yellow, green or pink. They are like comical Frank Stellas: they are what they are. What they are, in this show, however, is overabundant, and the hang is a bit hodgepodge.
Spider, By Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalski
Friday 17 December 2010
In phobia terms, Reaktion's terrific animal series has reached the king of beasts. Arachnophobia, the Miss Muffet syndrome, is "now counted among the most interesting human neuroses".
Emin's take on Bourgeois works shown in London
Thursday 02 December 2010
It is perhaps the art world's most intriguing collaborations of recent years; drawings begun by the great French artist Louise Bourgeois shortly before she died in May this year, and completed by Britart icon Tracey Emin. Now the collection of 16 works that make up Do Not Abandon Me are coming to London.
Stunning visuals: Redstone Diary 2011
Wednesday 27 October 2010
The ever popular Redstone Diary returns with the 2011 version which takes ‘The Artist's World’ as it's theme. This edition follows on from the successful Russian Diary.
The discreet charm of late Louise Bourgeois
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Frieze Art Fair 2010: Get ready for British art's biggest week
Friday 08 October 2010
Crazy Age: Thoughts on being Old, By Jane Miller
Friday 24 September 2010
Reading Jane Miller's Crazy Age is rather like peering into one of the cluttered-up drawers she talks about being saddled with, now that she's old. It's a shame that those thoughts are presented in such a confused jumble. There's a lot here that should have been put into a bag and taken off to Age Concern. Is this a book about how novelists and writers have viewed youth and age through the centuries? Is it an autobiography? Is it a treatise on old age? And what's all that waffle doing here, linking all these disparate bits together?
Insomnia: Sleepless at the Serpentine
Wednesday 28 July 2010








