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Matisson Burgin: Shoreditch Space, London
28 November - 8 December 2008
The tourist or walk-in trade will not be drawn to the Matisonn Burgin:Shoreditch Space. Hidden on an out of the way side street, its only identification is the house number scrawled in marker on the gray painted surface of a windowless Read on…
Reviewed by: Stan Divorski
Hugh O'Donnell: Being Gay in the G.A.A part 5
Bbeyond: Blackbox, Belfast
20 - 25 October 2008
'Gender reality is performative, which means quite simply, that it is real only to the extent it is performed'. Judith Butler: Performative Acts and Gender Construction.'A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer. Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Greenwood
Turner 2008
Tate, Britain, London
30 November 2008
TURNER PRIZE 2008 GOSHKA MACUGA CATHY WILKES RUNA ISLAM MARK LECKEY What a wonderful day. ...I haven't enjoyed myself so much in years. Each year as the Turner arrives I Read on…
Reviewed by: Donna Southern
Colm Clarke: Course
Bbeyond, Strathmillis College, Belfast
20 October - 25 November 2008
In its symbolic import the spectacle of Guantanamo, however shrouded in mystery, corresponds to the spectacle of public execution in the middle ages. Its aim is not so much to re-establish a balance as to bring into play, at its extreme point, the Read on…
Reviewed by: Mark Greenwood
N55: Walking House
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
24 October - 23 December 2008
The Walking House is a new concept for living. A house with legs designed to amble peacefully through the countryside. Its nomadic occupants are tucked up snugly inside, lulled by the solar-powered motion of the house’s six Read on…
Reviewed by: Helen Taylor
An Implication of Multiple Realities In Omer Fast's 'Take A Deep Breath'
Tate, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
20 September - 30 November 2008
Take a Deep Breath is a two-channel 30 minute video projection in the last room of gallery 4. Two screens are presented adjacent to each other; one placed further away, showing two differing perspectives of the same scene. They both depict the Read on…
Reviewed by: Alia Pathan
Turner Prize 2008
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
Seeing the artworks in this year’s Turner Prize is less a visual experience than a verbal one, in that it reminds you how words and sentences are not only printed but can also imprint themselves on your poor visual field like after-images Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew MacKisack
Turning The Season
The Wapping Project, London
21 November 2008 - 28 February 2009
Turning The Season I read somewhere that The Wapping Project has been voted as one of the 100 ‘coolest brands in Britain’ for four years in a row. Sceptical as I am about such labels, I find I have to agree with whoever spun Read on…
Reviewed by: Justine Gaunt
Thomas Hirschhorn: The Incommensurable Banner
Brighton Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Brighton
3 October - 16 November
Thomas Hirschhorn's work 'The Incommensurable Banner', premiered at this year's Brighton Photo Biennial, fills the length of the Fabrica gallery. Its coarse fabric is roughly pasted with colour images whose paper buckles from the glue with which Read on…
Reviewed by: Joanne Lee
Lisi Raskin: Topside
Gallery Milliken, Stockholm
28 August - 5 October
Whilst the majority of us rely on twenty-four-hour television news channels and the internet to gain some semblance of understanding of international politics, Lisi Raskin has embarked on a road trip across America, in order to discover nuclear test Read on…
Reviewed by: Matt Roberts
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
27 September - 22 November 2008
Set in the re-branded regeneration zone 'Eastside', Eastside Projects (ESP) is "an artist-run space as public gallery and incubator of new ideas for the city of Birmingham and beyond." 'This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things' was an Read on…
Reviewed by: Stuart Tait
The Turner Prize 2008
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
Presented at first with Goshka Macuga’s room: reflections and handrails alongside a mishmash of collaged artwork, I found myself more interested in watching others’ responses than responding myself. Looking at how their legs distorted Read on…
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark
There is No Alternative (TINA)
The Drawing Room, London
9 October - 30 November 2008
On entering the exhibition, I had an uncanny sense of stepping back in time to witness the unfolding of a truth that had recently become reality. The legacy of Margaret Thatcher's economic policies in the 1980s, epitomised by her hegemonic Read on…
Reviewed by: Catherine Wilson
My Shadow Sits and Waits for Me
Waterloo Gallery, London
21 October - 1 November 2008
This is the second exhibition staged by Ahmet within the space of a year at the Waterloo Gallery, and the range and depth of work by this prolific artist is astonishing. The exhibition benefits from the specific theme of the shadow, and is a Read on…
Reviewed by: Paul Davies
Best in Show
John Jones Project Space, London
2-31 October
The stated aim of 'Best in Show' is to present work by the brightest of this year's UK art graduates. If this sounds familiar, it may be due to the numerous other exhibitions making exactly the same claim - most notably the rather more grand Read on…
Reviewed by: Matt Lippiatt
Jeanette Sendler: Brown Linen
St Andrews Museum, Fife
13 September - 2 November
Women in corsets and bustles, young children in white crocheted dresses and tailors with long fabric tape measures and yards of linen; Jeanette Sendler recalls with misty-eyed reverence these sartorial moments from eighteenth and nineteenth century Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosie Lesso
Vlatka Horvat
Battersea Arts Centre, London
13 - 29 November 2008
In his essay, The Paradox of the End, theorist Iddo Landau argues that whilst goals provide individual purpose and focus, achieving the goal can result in, “A sense of insignificance and emptiness (where) we feel that in attaining the goal Read on…
Reviewed by: Emma Cocker
Turner Prize 2008
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
The Turner Prize is an exhibition and also a competition, intrinsically encouraging the audience to compare and contrast the 4 artists. But is this a help or a hindrance, I ask myself, ruminating over a cup of tea in the Tate café?The show Read on…
Reviewed by: Sarah Lightman
Lucian Freud: Early Works 1940-1958
Hazlitt Holland-hibbert, london
9 October - 12 December 2008
with my beans still intact i went to town. i returned to the Lucian Freud: Early Works 1940-1958 exhibition at hazlitt holland and hibbert in bury st. (see oct10th's post for my 1st visit). i had an urge to write down what i was Read on…
Reviewed by: aliceson carter
Cobra Mist
Unit 5, Norwich
12 - 29 November 2008
Aurora - a festival of animation, artist’s films, installations and live performance - takes place mainly in the centre of Norwich, clustered around Cinema City and the Art School. To find Emily Richardson’s film installation Cobra Read on…
Reviewed by: Lawrence Bradby
cloth and culture NOW
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
17 September - 14 December 2008
The current exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is the latest installment in an ongoing series of art textile reviews curated by Lesley Millar. As I entered the space I was particularly struck by the laser cut lace work of Read on…
Reviewed by: Steffan Jones-Hughes
Making Stories
Flow Gallery, Notting Hill, London
7 November 2008 - 10 January 2009
This exhibition features the work of four artists/makers brought together by Julie Arkell and Gallery owner Yvonna Demczynska.This is a commercial gallery that deals mainly in craft in West London just off Westbourne Grove. Julie Arkell has created Read on…
Reviewed by: Steffan Jones-Hughes
Playing In Urban Places
Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre, Leeds
3 October 2008
On the 3rd October I attended Playing in Urban Places at the Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery and Studio Theatre, a symposium that set out to ‘investigate the creative ways that the city is uncovered […] generating a Read on…
Reviewed by: Charlotte A Morgan
Documenting Live
Published by Unbound, London
1 August 2008
How does one capture the live, the ephemeral and the fleeting? With all live performance there is an element of loss at the very moment of its realisation. The performed moment can never be recaptured in precisely the same way. It can however Read on…
Reviewed by: mary kate connolly
City Spaces: Urban Stories
Vyner Street Gallery, London
6 - 12 October 2008
Am I a tower block or am I a person? Is my interiority like this too, like Paul Philipson’s photographs, the cold corridors and strip-lights of the mind? What if I jumped from here right now? Jan Deckner’s images seem to be asking us Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrew Bryant
The Irony Of Flatness
Bury Art Gallery, Bury
19 July - 8 November 2008
The Flatness OfIrony. That popular late-1980’s art-world mainstay irony hasreached Bury Art Gallery. At least it has within the title of the exhibition ofdrawings ‘The Irony Of Flatness’- presumably the reference to irony Read on…
Reviewed by: paul cordwell
Wack! Art and The Feminist Revolution
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
4 October 2008 - 11 January 2009
This review on Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution is written from my viewing of the exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as in response to an existing article on A-N by Alex Hetherington on the same exhibition when it was shown in New Read on…
Reviewed by: Freya Stansfield
Tropico de Cancer
Glasgow Print Stuido Gallery III, Glasgow
7 - 29 November 2008
There is an attractive simplicity and muted quality in Lorena Lozano's images on view at the Glasgow Print Studio. This simplicity, however, is soon found to be a doorway to a density of questions and associations.Displayed in Glasgow Print Read on…
Reviewed by: Ranjana Thapalyal
Sound Space Symposium
South Hill Park, Bracknell
1 November 2008
The development of sonic art is not often recognised within the visually oriented art world, whether due to that history being tied to the evolution of a technological world that many people are still struggling to come to terms with, or, as Max Read on…
Reviewed by: Edward Sands
Ulf Langheinrich: LAND
FACT Liverpool Biennial , Liverpool
20 September - 30 November 2008
LAND is a triple-screen projection—a triptych by the German artist Ulf Langheinrich. With an algorithmic process we are presented with images of pure noise backed by an ambient soundtrack piped out from speakers that surround the audience. In Read on…
Reviewed by: Adrienne Deaville