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Reviewer

Alex Hetherington

Visual artist and writer based in Scotland and the USA.

www.alexhetherington.com

Reviews

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution [7 March 2008]

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, housed at the cavernous PS1, is a vast international survey of over 120 artists, collectives and collaborations with over 400 works exhibited and all produced from the period 1965-1980. The scope of the work  Read on…

PS1, MoMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York
17 February - 12 May 2008

Minty Donald: Glimmers in Limbo [4 March 2008]

Tramway is a decaying, ascetic exterior, shedding paintwork, shedding particles of old architecture, mended, repaired and remodelled with fillings on fillings, painted-out windows, bricked-up deleted functionless voids, cobwebbed gaps collecting  Read on…

Tramway, Glasgow
16-17 February (continuing in part until 16 June)

Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need [28 February 2008]

Narrative is a fraudulent extinct melodramatic speciesE-mail spam scams from African dignitaries, bank managers and accountants fill our in-boxes with deals to share in vast wealth and assets from deceased individuals (who have died under tragic and  Read on…

Metro Pictures, New York City
7 February - 15 March 2008

Fabric of Protest and Turner Prize 2007 [16 January 2008]

Give sympathy for the 7” vinyl record: two recordings bound by alienated separation; bound together by a conjoined synthetic whole.  A Side is the main attraction, glistening with pop pulling power, B side a sonic shadow, a slighter song  Read on…

Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 - 13 January 2008

Three Years and Counting [25 September 2007]

Some kind of unstructured modifications/Tart elastics This show suggests a kind of psychological analytical theatre, a stage set full of poignant ‘props’ (that quietly talk to each other, their own script, part improvisation, a devise  Read on…

TART
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007

Superhumanatural Douglas Gordon [29 November 2006]

Douglas Gordon is no longer human. The Glasgow born, New York residing artist is now a vampire feeding from the memory of artists, actors, composers, soccer players and filmmakers: Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp; Scorcese's Taxi Driver and  Read on…

National Galleries of Scotland
11 November 2006 to 1 January 2007