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Out of Africa: David LaChapelle's strange visions of a continent
David LaChapelle made his name with mash-ups of trashy glitz, Old Masters and videos of Angelina Jolie, Courtney Love and Madonna. But on the eve of his first seriously political show in the UK, he tells Fiona Sturges that he has put commercialism behind him
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South Africa in pictures: Rankin's view through a lens
Thursday, 22 April 2010
British photographer Rankin explores South Africa’s rich photographic tradition in a new documentary for BBC Four. From stark images of war to pouting teenagers modelling Johannesburg fashions, Rankin - who is usually to be found snapping celebrities and fashion models- follows in the footsteps of some of South Africa’s most important photojournalists.
Caught on film
Thursday, 22 April 2010
The International League of Conservation Photographers selects its top 40 nature photographs of all time.
The many changing faces of St George
Thursday, 22 April 2010
England never celebrates St George’s day. Well, not really anyway, as the deafening silence which greeted Boris Johnson’s attempt to drum up enthusiasm for the saint “who had been ignored for too long” showed last year.
An eye for a sound: Portraits of jazz musicians throughout history
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Richard Young Gallery is launching a new exhibition of portraits by photographer Tim Motion.
Glasnost: Bitter taste of a world lost forever
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
A new London exhibition of art from the dying days of the Soviet Union provides a picture of a generation on the brink of enormous change, says Mary Dejevsky
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.
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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
