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PS1 Moma, New York
28 October - 19 November 2007
‘Stapelung (Stack)’ 2007 A Five Channel Video Sculpture by John Bock P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre 28 October – 19 November 2007 Thursday thru Monday, 12 – 6pm FREE with museum admission Best known for his 1990’s Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
On a Bench, in New York
1 November 2007
November 1st 3-6 pm. Artist Dave McKenzie ‘I’ll Be There (2007)’ at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building Plaza. On Thursday 1st November from 1-3 a black man in a leather jacket sits on a bench in Adam Clayton Powell Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
30 October 2007
There are some moments in life when I look round for the candid camera. One was in a visual culture lecture, when the lecturer played a recording of the sound of buttons being pressed. One was in a packed train at Waterloo Station, Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
Andrea Rosen, New York City
20 October - 24 November 2007
Workshop, Bedroom, Gallery, Classroom. there's something of each of these in the layout of Tillmans' most recent photography exhibition. Huge framed images adorn the walls next to small prints stuck up with Sellotape. In the centre pictures Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
Michael Werner Gallery, London
1 October - 30 November 2007
At Michael Werner Gallery's new London outpost, Aaron Curry's work looks pleasantly dislocated in its posh west end lodgings. Curry transposes the formal habits of high modernism to the psychic territory of his Los Angeles home-base, a city that Read on…
Reviewed by: Emily Candela
Guggenheim Museum, New York
27 October 2007
Francesco Vezzolli Right You Are ( If You Think you Are) by Luigi Pirandello, 1917 is a Performa 07 Commission produced by the Gagosian Gallery in collaboration with Performa and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation ‘It has truly been a Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
27 October 2007
If you have to stand in a queue, make sure it’s an interesting one. The queue that snaked around the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum on Saturday night may have been long and dispiriting, but it was also one peppered with celebrities from the Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
Essex Street Market, New York City
8 September - 28 October 2007
It's raining so heavily that it's necessary to hop across a bridge of old plywood to reach the shop front entrance of Mike Nelson's huge architectural installation. However the inclement weather is not the only obstacle the viewer need Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
The Old Fire Station, Manchester
Castlefield Gallery offsite project
6, 13, 20, 27 October
A voice sounds over the Tannoy: “Place the hood over your head, pick up the boiler suit, and a supervisor will take you to your cell.” I stumble through a dimly lit corridor into a dusty jail cell where I remove the hood, and put on the Read on…
Reviewed by: Matt Roberts
20 Portman Square and 92 George Street, London
13 October – 11 November
Just off Baker Street with its designer furniture stores and phone boxes filled with sex ads, I find the first exhibition from newly formed Austin Enterprises. Titled ‘Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde’, the exhibition transferred to this Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
International Project Space, Birmingham
27 September – 3 November
Freee are often found taking art into spaces where it can find new publics: billboards, bridges, parks, etc. So, ‘How to Make a Difference’ provided an opportunity for art audiences to catch up with their work. The exhibition consisted of Read on…
Reviewed by: Stuart Tait
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
22 September – 24 November
What role might an artist play in a museum show commemorating the 1807 act to abolish slavery? ‘Human Cargo’ sees interventions by five contemporary artists that challenge an apparently objective account of the transatlantic slave Read on…
Reviewed by: Gabrielle Hoad
Collective and other locations, Edinburgh
5 October – 3 November
N55 is the curious name of a Danish artists’ collective, derived from both a street name and the latitude of Copenhagen, their home city. Highly critical of the inequality brought on by consumerist society, they instead promote sharing and the Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosie Lesso
Fermynwoods, Northamptonshire
13 September – 28 October
Resembling bacteria or skeleton leaves, the swirl of the tides and the drift of the sands, Pak-Keung Wan’s drawings are exquisitely intricate webs of loops and lines that form fields of activity, giving the impression of depth and texture. In Read on…
Reviewed by: Hugh Dichmont
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September - 11 November 2007
'Port City-On Mobility and Exchange' explores the interconnected political issues of Sub-Saharan African poverty, the politics of containment and economic migration. The ambitious project aims to brings specificity to generalisations and address Read on…
Reviewed by: Will McCrory
51 High Street, Bracknell
24-27 October 2007
If you didn’t catch this exhibition (it ran for only four days), don’t despair: the visual artist and exhibition organiser, Janet Curley Cannon, is determined to find more spaces for professional visual artists in the Thames valley area Read on…
Reviewed by: Lesley Saunders
The Upstairs Gallery, Leicester
2-6 October 2007
‘Songs without names’ consists of a collection of found objects, transformed so as to become figures with their own inner lives and histories. Items of furniture most likely retrieved from skips, basements and attics have been Read on…
Reviewed by: Stuart Jesson
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
12 October - 17 November 2007
DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER By putting the least inspiring piece of this exhibition to be the first seen was a necessary risk. It was a shoulder shrugging exhibit with a lame expression. I wouldn`t have climbed into that amateur made box to be Read on…
Reviewed by: Rikki Blythe
The Sage, Gateshead
17 October 2007
HEARIMPROV was the first public performance by a musical ensemble formed by artist Adinda van ’t Klooster. Nine musicians, drawn from a variety of backgrounds and including van ‘t Klooster herself, improvised to a series of visual Read on…
Reviewed by: Steve Wright
Regents Park, London
11-14 October 2007
THE FRIEZE ART FAIR At the Georgian end of London town where the peace of the swept and clipped park paths with fountain after fountain, bench after bench, had for generations been overlooked by the proud white town houses, Read on…
Reviewed by: Rikki Blythe
Arnolfini, Bristol
8 June 2007
The book Encounters (Bristol: Arnolfini, 2007; ISBN 978090773842) by photographer Manuel Vason reproduces 162 images created in collaboration with 36 solo artists and artist collaborators working within performance and live art. As Dominic Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
Arnolfini, Bristol
3 October - 14 November 2007
He paced the floor, rubbed his head, seemed perplexed. 'I'm scared of being sick (and shit)', he said...but filming it is exciting. Martin Creed gave the third in the series of four artist's talks at the Arnolfini last night, and Read on…
Reviewed by: Theo Wood
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
19-21 October 2007
Beacon Art Project990:Genral History of other areas Saturday 20th October 2007 Will Young spotted at Gerardo’s café? Paul Whitehouse seen chatting to residents, and Jools Holland at the local library. Beacon seems to have Read on…
Reviewed by: Alan Armstrong
The Foundling Museum, London
28 September - 18 November 2007
RSVP displays work by fifteen artists from the East of England, inspired by the art and social history collections at the Foundling. Curator Gill Hedley invites visitors to ‘find new ways of looking at what is around them’.The show at Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Project Space Leeds (PSL), Leeds
12 October - 15 December 2007
Wildwood Wildwood, a new exhibition at PSL (Project Space Leeds) investigates woodland spaces and all the emotions and connections they inspire, literally - through physical connotation and metaphorically, through tools such as folk tale and legend. Read on…
Reviewed by: Justine Gaunt
VINEspace , London
11 October 2007
Last Thursday I had a one-night stand with Japanese artist Heartbeat Drawing Sasaki. It was a wonderfully slow and strange physical encounter that lasted for several hours, throughout which I could hear - and feel - the pounding of Heartbeat Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
County Hall, London
11-14 October 2007
Year 07 was 58 galleries in a corner of the old GLC building. These are the ones I liked. In the downstairs room, from New York's Caren Golden Fine Art, is Devorah Sperber's After da Vinci: 400+ reels of coloured thread hanging in a grid pattern, Read on…
Reviewed by: Christopher Steel
Chelsea Theatre, London
17-22 September 2007
You might have heard of Annie Sprinkle as the former porn star and sex-worker turned performance artist, whose piece ‘Public Cervix Announcement’ invited audience members to look inside her vagina. You might also have heard of Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
South Hill Park, Bracknell
15 September - 11 November 2007
The latest artistic offering from South Hill Park, the busy Berkshire based arts centre, is a photographic infusion of artists from Nordic countries. Dis/Connected sets out to explore whether myth and legend are subjects that have long been Read on…
Reviewed by: Hannah Wise
Toynbee Studios, London
9 October 2007
There’s a Viking Line ship which is so large that as it navigates its way through Helsinki harbour, its movement is actually imperceptible. Only by watching it over time can you convince yourself that it is in fact moving. For Read on…
Reviewed by: Theron Schmidt
