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The Kitchen, New York
13 February 2008
Brent Green is a self taught animator, based in Cressona, PA. Tonight he presented the entire oeuvre of his work so far, bringing them together with a soundtrack co-written with musical luminaries, Jim Becker (of Califone), Brendan Canty (of Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
Tate Modern, London
24 January - 27 April 2008
Playing with scale, using the minute and the immensely big to experiment with the possibility of perceiving the world in a different way. "You have to come, to look, to smile and despair." The words of Juan Muñoz, to whom Tate Read on…
Reviewed by: federica bueti
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery (touring), Shrewsbury
1 February - 1 March 2008
Helen and Newton Harrison’s touring exhibition sits well in Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. Work developed to explore a future dominated by rising sea levels, viewed in one of the most land locked counties in England is a surprise. Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Thompstone
Initial Access - Passage to India, Four Ashes, Wolverhampton
15 March - 12 July 2008
Easy Access Read on…
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Pitt
IKON + London, Birmingham
14 April - 23 May 2008
In this months review I would like to look at two artists: Ruth Claxton and Laura White both of whom I met in the same day. In the morning I visited Ikon Eastside. Ruth is the first resident and has been working there since December. Eastside, a Read on…
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Pitt
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
23 November 2007 - 23 January 2008
Becky Beasley's artist's book American Letter is a beautiful physical object. Printed on heavily weighted paper, the understated prairie green binding, font choice and inventive layout has been meticulously researched and is a pleasure Read on…
Reviewed by: Kristina Johansen
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2 October 2007 - 21 February 2008
The Mind is a Muscle is the latest in the One Work publication series by Afterall Books. Each book in the series is an in-depth look, by one author, at a single artwork that has shaped the landscape of contemporary art as we know it today. For Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Room 113, Point Hotel, Edinburgh.
13 February 2008
I entered the hotel lobby. Was I looking a little lost or was I just that type? “Hello, are you here for the show?” “Isn't this the show?“No, its upstairs in room 113.”And with that, the briefest of conversations, I Read on…
Reviewed by: Jonathan Baxter
Gagosian Gallery, London
5 February - 22 March 2008
I imagine that artist Ed Ruscha likes driving around Los Angeles. In his car the weight of traffic flow will dictate what his eye will light upon. Depositories, construction sites, and warehouses play a dance of chance composition with Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
19 January 2008
WYSING ARTS CENTRE – RE-OPENINGDavid Kefford’s ‘fragile’, a tumbling vortex of coathangers cascades from the ceiling, a centre-piece to the exhibition of current studio holders work, at the grand re-opening of Wysing Arts Read on…
Reviewed by: Matt Roberts
Apartment, Manchester
17 January - 29 February 2008
Horst is a sixty year old 18 stone drag queen whose idiosyncratic response to Nikola Irmer’s habit of advertising for models in the personal column of the local paper initiated a three year collaboration. The resulting paintings depict Read on…
Reviewed by: MAUREEN WARD
Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
19 January - 7 February 2008
The two highlights of Peter Ford’s recent exhibition in Cardiff of works on paper were the large paper collages mounted on wooden panels, dominating opposite sides of Howard Gardens Gallery at UWIC (University Institute of Wales in Read on…
Reviewed by: Kate Griffiths
Geodecity Installed Dome City, Shepshed
4-5 August 2007
On the weekend of the 4 -5th August, myself and a group of friends left behind our failed cities and journeyed to the building ground of what promised to be a new Utopia, Geodecity. This pilgrimage was to be the first practical step in the latest Read on…
Reviewed by: Jon Williams
Victoria Court Interiors, Nottingham
13-20 November 2007
Upon entering Throes a class of anubis school boys and their teacher greet you mutely. They sit contently, un-puzzled by their own strange existence. In blazers, stripy ties and grey trousers these seated, uniformed, jackal-headed, fury hybrids Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Duggan
Emmanuel Church, Loughborough
26 January 2008
“You Are the Music while the Music Lasts” was a look into the notion of a stranger in our midst – the presence of a foreign body, perhaps unwelcome, a disruptive element, upsetting the status quo and making the expected Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
Whitecross Gallery, London
11 January - 23 February 2008
The group show displays a selection of works by sixteen gallery's artists.Paolo Giardi that was the subject of the gallery's inaugural show presents four hypnotic collages (Don't you feel somehow burried in history, 2007) exploring an Read on…
Reviewed by: Michel Boubon
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
16 January – 16 February
and other shows in Ireland
Beyond the confines of artworld discourse, price is one of the main ways by which many people come to negotiate a sense of value in art. More than the endorsement of major museum shows, it is through newspaper hype attending to auction results, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Gemma Tipton
Aaron Head: What do I know About Bedford Anyway?
BCA Gallery, Bedford
8 December – 2 February
As the title suggests, Aaron Head’s solo show ‘What do I know About Bedford Anyway?’ takes an openly interrogative look at the once-thriving industrial and market town of Bedford. Bedford serves a dual function for Head. It is the Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
7 January
Just how long do I have to keep grinning? It is a question we often ask ourselves: craning over a colleague’s shoulder, squinting at a fuzzy two-inch square video clip on a computer screen of some overweight kid getting stuck in a fairground Read on…
Reviewed by: Dave Ball
Artonomy, Truro
12 January - 1 March 2008
Mixed Exhibition –Artonomy –Green Street, Truro 12 January - 1 March 2008 Featuring works from, Amy Albright, Bridgette Ashton, Louise Balaam, ,Jamie Boyd,Mark Dunford,Martin Goold, Marcelle Hanselaar, Phil Hogben, Ashley Hold Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
Spike Island, Bristol
19 January - 2 March 2008
David Mackintosh does drawings on A1 paper and lots of them. Closeted in the studio for long periods of time he produces a large number of images placed in the centre of the page using gouache. These are then edited down while the rest are Read on…
Reviewed by: Theo Wood
Tether Studios and Bromley House, Nottingham
5-25 November 2007
Alexandria Clark: Forecasts and Were you there when you read this?"Tether Festival, Nottingham, November 2007Review by Nick Simpson Alexandria Clark's artwork has struck me as being some of the most interesting work I have Read on…
Reviewed by: Nick Simpson
Afterall, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design , London
19 January 2008
'Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go' by Jeremy Millar (London, Afterall: 2007) is part of the Afterall 'One Work' series, in which a writer particularly taken with the featured work of art argues its significance for the making and Read on…
Reviewed by: Jacqueline Mantle
The British Library, London
17 January - 30 April 2008
A stunning and exhaustively rich show of avant garde work from 20th c. Europe before the 2nd World War. The show includes work on paper, books, leaflets, photographs, films and sound recordings. So much inspiration that you need to take a break Read on…
Reviewed by: Murray Marshall
Barbican, London
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
Dressed as a clown and watching slides of couples having sex sounds as if it would be a great way to spend Halloween. But as I spent time in fancy dress with the intimate and graphic couples in Nan Goldin’s ‘Heartbeat’ Read on…
Reviewed by: Thomas Darby
Wilkinson Gallery, London
8-9 January 2008
My Father’s Grace was devised and performed by Joe Moran and represented the finale of Dance Art, a short season of dance co-produced by Intimate Contenders and Falling Wide in London gallery spaces from October 07 – January 08. The Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Site Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
19 October 2007 - 13 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…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington
Goldfactory Project Space, Egerton Studios, Nottingham
21 October 2007
Time and space to redevelop. A place to play and reform ideas from a time before; a time where the end could not be obtained and the final point could not be found. The circumstances; that here we had a residency and a discussion with no final Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
Miami, USA
6-9 December
Art fairs are usually thought to represent the artworld at its most cynical, shamelessly showcasing art as commerce in the form of a big trade show that isn’t much different from every other kind of fair. Presenting Art Basel at Miami Beach is Read on…
Reviewed by: Erlend Hammer
South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire
1 December 2007 - 20 January 2008
Review - Greg Daville South Hill Park1 December 2007 - 20 January 2008 Daville's work consists of manipulated photos that are exhibited in the Atrium Bar and as part of the ‘Surveillance' exhibition at South Hill Park. Daville Read on…
Reviewed by: Joanne Seaton
