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Gaugin: The painter who invented his own brand of artistic licence
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
We all know Gauguin as the archetypal bohemian artist, but a new exhibition will attempt to show the depth and complexity of his work and ideas
On the agenda: Triana Terry; Collette Dinnigan; International Dance Festival; The Land of Kings festival; Bompas & Parr
Sunday, 18 April 2010
We're going in search of mermaids in east London before hitting the barre in Brum
Observations: Huge teeth, taxidermy and 24-hour psychos in Glasgow
Friday, 16 April 2010
Fans of the artist David Shrigley's quirky, pen-and-ink, cartoon-like drawings may not be aware that he also makes sculptures, too. His latest collection of surreal pieces can be seen as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, which opens today and runs until 3 May. For two weeks, his sculptures are replacing the disparate objects usually seen in the display cases in the Study Centre at Kelvingrove Museum, so instead of suits of armour and jewellery, there's an oversized tooth and a pair of lungs made out of clay, a taxidermy puppy, a glazed, hollow ceramic bomb and a pile of 30 rough, silver-plated copper coins referencing Judas and the Bible.
Blurring the line between painting and sculpture: A collection of works by Antoni Tàpies
Friday, 16 April 2010
A new exhibition of work by Antoni Tàpies is to be displayed at the Waddington Galleries in London.
Rankin captures a taste of single malt whisky
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Sepia tone snapshots by famous Scottish photographer Rankin, inspired by a famous Scottish whisky, have been published in a book which forms a “photographic essay” of the beautiful three-hundred-year-old estate responsible for Macallan Single Malt Whisky.
Hot metal: Anthony Caro's sculpture is showing a wonderful late flowering of creativity and spirituality
Thursday, 15 April 2010
The Irish poet WB Yeats asked, "Why should not old men be mad?" as he frolicked through his old age, writing some of the most wild and exuberant poems of his life. Is the sculptor Anthony Caro, who celebrated his 86th birthday on 8 March, such another? I kept on asking myself this as I walked around a new show of his sculptures in the West End of London.
On the agenda: Animal Art Fair; Comme des Garçons; Francis Ford Coppola; Stephen King; Laurie Anderson; The Summerhouse
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Expect the unexpected from Stephen King, Francis Ford Coppola and Laurie Anderson...
National treasures: Britain's museums and galleries
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Kirsty Young, chair of the judges of the Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, celebrates the wealth of collections that can be enjoyed for free all around Britain
Gillian Anderson: From the X-Files to YBAs
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Gillian Anderson rose to fame as Scully in the The X-Files. Now she’s back in the UK and taking on the art world.
Observations: Logos that don't win any votes
Friday, 9 April 2010
The government has taken to using graphics in a big way. Logo design developed out of Modernist art and is difficult to perfect. To succeed it must be visually simple, conceptually clear and inspire us to identify with it. So how have the politicians fared in their attempts to get a message to us?
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
(Various venues)
Fifty artists, Scottish and worldwide, present sculpture, drawings, film, video, soundworks, performance, in numerous venues, great and small.
(0141 287 8994) to 2 May
Gary Hume
(New Art Centre, Salisbury)
New works: shiny flat paint, drifting lines, weak colours and large areas of dark, amounting to the most weirdly diffident depictions.
(01980 862244) to 18 Apr
Richard Hamilton
(Serpentine Gallery, London)
Modern Moral Matters: political matters, really. Cool multi-media images, doing hot topics: nuclear weapons, Ulster, Thatcher, Blair’s wars.
(020 7402 6075) to 25 Apr
Dexter Dalwood
(Tate St Ives)
With freewheeling cartoon styles and plastic colour, this British painter reconstructs history.
(01736 796226) to 3 May
Paul Sandby – Picturing Britain
(Royal Academy, London)
“The only man of genius,” said Gainsborough, for “real views from nature.” Paul Sandby also drew grotesque cartoons expressing his hatred of Hogarth.
(020 7300 8000) to 13 Jun
