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Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
Tate Modern, London Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in...
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REVIEW: Soul of a Nation – the extraordinary art of the black power era
Tate Modern, LondonCivil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle
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‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic...
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
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Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
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How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence
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The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground
An exhibit by controversial artist Dana Schultz, accused of profiting from black pain, has led to anger, the latest in an increasingly long line of art world protests
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World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art...
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Review: Folkestone triennial – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions
Antony Gormley sculptures lurk under the promenade, Richard Woods invades town with huts for second-homers, while Bob and Roberta Smith treats local kids to art lessons. An eye-catching battle is...
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Videogames are a remarkable artform that can help save UK culture
Videogames speak culture with ever increasing fluency, but cultural policy doesn’t speak much videogame (yet)
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FOOD ART | an introduction
From next week, I will start a new column for FAD exploring the shared space between food and art. This article is an introduction to this research. Called FOOD ART, it will explore the intersections,...
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Art Night Putting Walthamstow’s Art and Culture on the London Map
Art Night returns this year for it's fourth run in Walthamstow and King's Cross. This year differs to the last in that Walthamstow was awarded the first London Borough of Culture. The festival shall...
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Hard Simplicity: Méïr Srebriansky ‘Age of Resin’ at 81 Leonard Gallery
The lastest online exhibition at the artist-run gallery, 81 Leonard Gallery features new works by Méïr Srebriansky. 'Age of Resin' is a survey of the artist's work in a new medium.
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10 Questions from Isolation… with Huma Kabakci
10 Questions from Isolation- This week's guest is Huma Kabakci, independent Curator and Founding Director of Open Space. Kabakci completed an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of...
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Culture& announces Black Lives Matter Charter for the UK heritage sector
Culture& have released a Black Lives Matter Charter for the UK heritage sector they have called on their partners and the wider arts and heritage sectors to make clear their position on Black Lives...
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Unit London launches Platform, a digital space that engages with urgent...
Unit London just launched Platform, an online exhibitions programme highlighting urgent socio-political issues. Participating artists create new works engaging with a political, cultural or social...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Exhibitions to see in 2022
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see as we head into a new year. Each one comes with a... Read More
View ArticleMaterial Conversations Mater x Robin James Sullivan
Robin James Sullivan is “an Artist; Producer; a Writer; a Chef; a dreamer; an amateur experimental archaeologist; a mudslinger; a guide; a Queer man; a Performer, the hostess with the mostess. (Not...
View ArticlePaul’s Gallery of the Week: Tate Britain
Tate Britain opened as the National Gallery of British Art on the site of the former Millbank Prison in 1897, but soon became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate.
View Article“Processing the past & digesting the future”, or how can the digestive system...
Badr El Jundi, Madrid, presents the new exhibition ‘Processing the Past & Digesting the Future‘ curated by Huma Kabakci. The... Read More
View ArticleGrowing Pastime Culture within America
Across the globe, there are millions of people engaging in their favourite hobbies as a means of relaxing and enhancing... Read More
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