Para Site Announces Departure from Quarry Bay Location
The experimental, Hong Kong-based art space will organize a “nomadic program” across the city next year. Harison Butler
Scrubbing away the horror | Lee Miller at Tate Britain
Tate Britain’s retrospective of Lee Miller - 230 photographs across eleven rooms, traces a coherent trajectory through the many chapters of Miller’s very episodic career.
Spirit of Place | Eric Ravilious’ Furlongs adventures, at Towner Eastbourne
In the 1930s, artist and designer Peggy Angus transformed a derelict cottage on the South Downs into a creative refuge for friends like Eric Ravilious, John Piper and Helen Binyon.…
A geometry of compassion | Elisabeth Frink, at Salisbury Museum and British Art Fair
Elisabeth Frink’s Walking Madonna strides away from Salisbury Cathedral, dignified suffering etched into her middle-aged face. Cast in bronze, she seems anything but static. Her forward motion is palpable, her…
A sublime double-hit | Rachel Whiteread et al, at Goodwood Art Foundation
A field in West Sussex, bordered by ancient woodland, lies fallow… but for a curious jaggedy monument. Imagine if MC Escher had redesigned a Mesopotamian ziggurat, and you’re halfway there.
Drawn to the dark side | Edward Burra at Tate Britain
In the summer of 1933 the 28-year-old painter Edward Burra, living with his parents in the village of Playden, near Rye in East Sussex, wandered out of the house, seemingly…
Painters painting painters
Pallant House Gallery’s excellent new exhibition Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, features British artists’ depictions of other British artists over the last 125 years. It’s a great concept: artist…
Great female artists
It’s time to give contemporary women artists a fair crack of the whip.
Threads of Change
Textile art is as old as the hills, but retains its vitality in the digital age.
A brave new world, revisited | Electric Dreams at Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s engaging new show Electric Dreams examines how groups of innovative artists used science and technology in their practice between the end of WW2 and the advent of the…