Category Archives: Art

Damien’s First

Damien Hirst has his first show at Tate Modern.   Continue reading

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Miami Moments

Art Basel Miami Beach: a behemoth of art at the heart of a week-long, Miami-wide cultural happening.   Continue reading

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five second frieze

Executive summary: a good year – more interesting stuff, fewer trophy pieces. Favourites at the Fair: Raphaël Zarka at Bischoff/Weiss, the Taka Ishii Gallery from Tokyo, Laura Bartlett, and Oslo’s Standard (Oslo). Favourite Freize-related events (so far): Blain|Southern on Tuesday; Groucho Frieze After …   Continue reading

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Pipilotti Rist at the Hayward

As London enjoys its second summer of the year, the Pipilotti Rist show opens at the Hayward Gallery and provides the perfect backdrop.   Continue reading

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Seduced and Abandoned

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“Step by step, how many, within the sphere of every man’s observation, have become involved in a career frightful to contemplate; friendless, forlorn, and unpitied, at its miserable conclusion!” – Charles Dickens   Continue reading

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Basel by the Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach was hot, busy and fantastic – partly perhaps because I took the precaution of travelling with the Swiss Cultural Attaché, her sister who works in private dealing and Issa, a Swedish painter, partly also because we …   Continue reading

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