This year's Edinburgh Art Festival brings the immersive and complex conceptual world created by Charles Avery to engulf us.
OUT OF AFRICA
Africa Industrial Revolution. This time the revolution will be downloaded.
Maeng Wookjae is the Big Game Ceramic Hunter
Enter into the mind of one the most exciting up-and-coming South Korean artists of our time.
INTERVIEW: Clay Ketter toys with familiarity and what is ‘real’
A search for “gravity” and art that “serves itself”.
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes
This September, Arcade Fire are offering fans a unique insight into the making of Reflektor, their most recent, critically acclaimed international bestselling album.
Alexander Calder’s mobiles come to life at the Tate Modern
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976)
Antennae with Red and Blue Dots 1953
Tate © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2015
The UK’s largest ever Alexander Calder exhibition of kinetic sculptures is coming to the Tate Modern. And in more ways than one, it’s moving.
The Girl of Stuff (Tracy Gray) – GET STUFFED
The Girl of Stuff's first photo book/ zine/ box is being launched soon at Parlour Skate Store on Hackney Road, the very location I housed my own exhibition Morella in 2014.
Audrey Hepburn: ‘Portraits of an Icon’ or Portraits of an Age?
The current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery aims to display the portraits that capture the iconic within the icon, Audrey Hepburn. Whilst doing so, it also captures the image of an age where cultural fluctuation was rife.
Eccentric Bxentric unveils his new catchy track - Chrome
Photo by Alice Rainis
You know that track you listen to once in a club and it just resonates within you? That track you shazam in that same club but fail to find? Then look no further – this is that track.
Five recent and upcoming releases that you want to put in your diary, but you can’t.
In an industry where solid release schedules and corporate control over the output of musicians has become the norm, some of this year’s most exciting releases are abiding by different rules.
Marc Quinn – The Toxic Sublime
AMY
A review of the biopic film featuring the infamous jazz vocalist.
Guillermo Mora – not your usual acrylic painter
“It would be amazing to see all the paintings of the world separated from their canvases and falling on the ground.”
SATURATION II – Add Subtract Divide opening at the Copperfield Gallery
Paint is not a dead art. Especially not when six unique Spanish artists rehash the painted form and naught but maths ensues.
5 new songs to sink your teeth into
Get your headphones on and your summer kit ready – here’s five summer songs to set you in the mood for these sunny days.
An interview with illustrator Davide Bart Salvemini
Italian artist Davide Bart Salvemini lets us in to his weird and wonderful world of illustration. Keep your eyes peeled and your screen brightness dimmed.
The Guerrilla Girls turned 30; let’s talk about women
Inspired by the social activist group Guerrilla Girls, we take a look at some important female artists working now.
6 Tribes: The New interest-based App revolutionizing social media
Facebook, instagram and Twitter have longed dominated our social media platform, being our go-to domains to connect with others. But what do you know about 6 Tribes?
Review: Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture for a Modern World Exhibition
Barbara Hepworth in the Palais studio at work on the wood carving Hollow Form with White Interior 1963 Photograph: Val Wilmer, ©Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Affable, sensual and a bit perplexing.
Top 5 International Exhibitions: Yoko Ono, Ryan Gander, Chen Zhen, Michael Beutler and Tianzhuo Chen.
Chen Zhen Image: Daily Incantations, 1996, Courtesy de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins, Photo Tom Powell.
From one of the most famous multi-faceted artist-performers celebrating approximately 125 works, to young installation artists addressing commonplace post-millennial issues: This wide spectrum of current major international exhibitions has a lot to offer.