Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?
Though not made for public consumption, the darkroom work prints reveal his portraits as excerpts of a conversation, rather than memories snatched from the ether.
PIVOTAL: Digitalism
Filmmaker and ‘digitalist’ Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou is curating a cutting-edge digital art exhibition for British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery. Here she explains to Alex Leith how advances in technology have…
All angles at once | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at British Art Fair 2024
British Art Fair has teamed up with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust to organise an exciting new show. On display throughout the 2024 fair at Saatchi Gallery, the Trust will exhibit…
The milk of dreams | Leonora Carrington at Newlands House Gallery
In May this year, Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s 1945 oil painting, Les Distractions de Dagobert, sold at Sotheby’s New York for a staggering $28.5 million, the highest sum ever achieved…
Twisted Sinews | The art of trees
The British public’s horrified reaction to the sickening criminal felling last autumn of one of Britain’s best-loved natural landmarks – the famous sycamore near Once Brewed on Hadrian’s Wall –…
Deconstructing the mugs | The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain at Pallant House
The founding President of the Royal Academy Joshua Reynolds dismissed still life painting as a minor genre, lower in the pecking order than historical paintings, landscapes and portraits. And to…
A queer arrangement
The second major show at Charleston’s new gallery in Lewes, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece, an Untold Story, raises more questions than it answers.
Winter highlights: UK public galleries
Highlights of British artists at public art galleries this winter.