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The City Gallery, Leicester
3 June – 8 July
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.” We read this on one of hundreds of pages of Darwin’s The Origin of Species, mounted and hung on the walls of the Read on…
Reviewed by: S Mark Gubb
Globe City Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2 June – 1 July
‘Climate Change: Cultural Change’ is a series of exhibitions and events taking place in various venues around Newcastle and Gateshead. The exhibition at the Globe City Gallery is a presentation of video and interactive works by Michael Read on…
Reviewed by: Davy Smith
Nottingham Castle
4 April 2006 to 6 June 2006
One Show, Two Cities Haluk Akakçe at Nottingham Castle The “most ambitious survey of new and recent developments in art from the UK” has arrived in Nottingham; the multi-faceted British Art show. It opened at the Gateshead Read on…
Reviewed by: Hugh Dichmont
Southampton
4 April 2006 to 6 June 2006
Four times I’ve been to the Bodies of Water exhibition at the Southampton Art Gallery and enjoyed every work, so why was I so averse to returning for my fifth visit? Was it wrong of me to want to go back with my magnifying glass and Calabash Read on…
Reviewed by: Benjamin Thomson
Angel Row and Beatties
4 April 2006 to 6 June 2006
‘Is Nottingham the ugliest city in Britain?’, was the horribly trenchant question posed by Waldemar Januszczak to open his ruthlessly critical review of the British Art Show 6, published in a recent issue of the Sunday times Culture Read on…
Reviewed by: Aaron Juneau
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
12 December 2005 to 4 April 2006
Surely Robert Rauschenberg needs no introduction. His legacy has been firmly in place from his peak of prominence in the mid to late 1950’s up until today. At a time when the expressionistic formality of abstract expressionism was reaching Read on…
Reviewed by: Aaron Juneau
Milton Keynes Gallery
4 April 2006 to 5 May 2006
After the promise of a straightforward 35 minute journey from London Euston, following a never-ending roam along Midsummer Boulevard, of seeing the same car parking spaces and offices again and again, the déjà vu was getting to Read on…
Reviewed by: Kevin Hunt
Calgary Art in Nature
5 May 2006 to 6 June 2006
Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull - a breathtaking beauty spot that draws visitors from all over the world. In 1999 resident artist Matthew Reade undertook the regeneration of a stretch of woodland that reaches from his home down to the bay. He began Read on…
Reviewed by: Juliet Knight
Streetlevel, Glasgow
20 April – 3 June
Mark Neville is currently making waves as a result of a residency recently undertaken at Port Glasgow, where he spent a year documenting different aspects of life in this post-industrial west coast [of Scotland] town. Faced with the usual cultural Read on…
Reviewed by: Janie Nicoll
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
4 May – 17 June
(Insert artists correct name in first proof _ KB doesn't like it)It is a cliché of current times that ‘we are all members of a diaspora now’. Whether that stands close scrutiny is debatable. However, as the skies are criss-crossed Read on…
Reviewed by: Stephen Riley
Q Arts Gallery, Derby
22 April – 4 June
It was my first time in Derby, the rain was pouring, but I was invited to smile from the start. Q Gallery’s ‘Future Focus ‘06’ takes you on an appealing journey through an exploration of communication, how media events are Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Published by MQ Publications
Having ventured no further than the creation of a pair of leg warmers for My Little Pony (a few decades back), I encountered this book with the hope it could persuade me to get knitting and guide me towards turning out some beautiful unique garments Read on…
Reviewed by: Lisa Wigham
University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
18 May – 8 June
Four emerging curators from the Art History and Theory department of the University of Essex (Wen-Chin Chi, Ashlee Gross, Leigh Hazzard and Alex Hugo) engage and helpfully deconstruct our architectural language with a presentation of six Read on…
Reviewed by: Ron Sims
MOT, London
12 May – 17 June
As you enter the MOT space – high up in the wonderfully creepy council block of Regents Studios in Bethnal Green – you’re faced with a rather peculiar sight. A grainy Super 8 film shows a man hopping around on an industrial spring, Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Morris
Raffles Art Cafe, Nottingahm
5 May 2006 to 5 May 2006
Dis*com*bob*u*late Surely amongst the most important skills of young endeavouring artists are self-motivation and self-promotion. If this is true then much adulation goes to featured artists at Dis*com*bob*u*late, cited at Raffles Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Booth
Coleman Project Space
5 May 2006 to 5 May 2006
Coleman Project Space is currently hosting Debra Swann's new site-specific exhibition, Curiosity Shop. The gallery is around the corner from a housing estate. A police board appeals for information concerning the killing of a cat last summer. Poor Read on…
Reviewed by: Ryan Gilbey
Clementine Gallery
3 March 2005 to 4 April 2006
In New York, Bipolar disorder has become as popular as insomnia was ten years ago. Everyone’s got it: men, women, babies, the subway system. On a recent trip, the girl whose floor I was kipping on in Gramercy shook me awake one morning, Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Morris
Hayward Gallery
1 January 2006 to 4 April 2006
As usual, I am late. I bundle into the gallery at the last minute feeling irritable and pent up. Teased by a grotesque green glow from beyond the frosted glass, I hurriedly buy my ticket, the door is opened, and I am quietened. The space is bathed Read on…
Reviewed by: Zoe Langdell
White Cube
4 April 2006 to 4 April 2006
The White Cube is one of those cleverly designed spaces that suck you in. No sooner was I through the door, than I seemed to find myself standing in front of Security Fence, perhaps the most compelling of Lisa Lou’s exhibits for her solo Read on…
Reviewed by: Victoria Scholes
My House Gallery
4 April 2006 to 5 May 2006
Fight for sore eyes, presented at My House Gallery, is a part of the 'Sideshow' programme of exhibitions and events, which coincide with British Art Show 6 during its stay in Nottingham. With spectacles such as this, Sideshow could be poised to Read on…
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
Ferens Art Gallery Hull
4 April 2006 to 6 June 2006
What does Rembrandt have to tell me? It’s a glorious, sunny day- so what’s the first thing you want to do? Go to a gallery of course! Gallery 4 in the Ferens warns you of low lighting, that you’ll have to allow your eyes to Read on…
Reviewed by: Chris Walker
MOMA New York
2 February 2006 to 3 March 2006
These three works: National Museum of Art Tokyo, 1999 by Thomas Struth (German born), The Story Teller, 1986 by Jeff Wall (Canadian born) and Jpeg ny02, 2002 by Thomas Ruff (German born), were exhibited together in one corridor at the MOMA, Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Angel Row Annex
4 April 2005 to 6 June 2006
Spread out throughout Nottingham, set in 5 different venues, the British Art Show is set to take you on a physical and mental journey. Each venue has a slightly different feel, from the more serious video and installation work at the Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance
29 April – 1 May
Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring was inspired by his dream of a virgin dancing herself to death in a pagan ritual of self-sacrifice. The dance, a climax of transitory beauty and death, is demanded by the forces of nature to bring Read on…
Reviewed by: Zoe Shearman
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
6-8 April
After twenty years of artwork being presented in the forest, ‘Reveal’ shows how temporary new commissions in light and sound can operate in this context. We had about three hours to view eight artworks over a mile of woodland paths. The Read on…
Reviewed by: Louise Short
NGCA, Sunderland
5 May 2006 to 7 July 2006
‘A Modern Bestiary (While Darwin Sleeps…)’ is the latest group show to be presented at the NGCA in Sunderland. It may be said that group shows have a tendency to be ill conceived, badly presented and contain generally irrelevant Read on…
Reviewed by: Davy Smith
Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
21 April – 6 May
A conspicuous crew of culture consumers stands, temporarily of course, in a typically earthy Torry pub, contra-socially gazing out of the window. Outside, seen through frosted glass, is Bryony Anderson. In requisite tartan-alia, she performs an Read on…
Reviewed by: Ken Neil
Mary Mary, Glasgow
15 April – 19 May
In this, the opening exhibition at the impressive new Mary Mary gallery, Karla Black has created three new works made in direct response to the gallery space. The first is a human-scale amorphous shape, a free standing draped and painted cardboard Read on…
Reviewed by: Janie Nicoll
Transition Gallery, London
8 April – 7 May
This, the first show at Transition Gallery’s new premises, centres on the theme of the Baroque, hence its rather pointed title ‘Baroque My World’. Already, this pun hints at the kind of humour within which the exhibition seeks to Read on…
Reviewed by: Heather Phillipson
Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds
28 March – 6 May
The sixth ‘Platform’ exhibition at Bury St Edmunds Gallery promotes the work of recent visual arts graduates from across East Anglia. Being involved in such a potentially career-building event means that the artists are perhaps expected to Read on…
Reviewed by: Ivor Southwood
