Everybody Street : Review

Everybody Street 7th February – 16th February 2014 £6.00 to £10.00 ICA, The Mall Street photography is impossible not to get excited about at worst, but EVERYBODY STREET, directed by the inspirational Cherly Dunn and featuring thirteen icons of the New York street photography scene that span 9 decades, is just on another level. This…

Review: This season @ The Photographer’s Gallery

THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S GALLERY The Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW Exhibition Admission : £4 / £2.50 concessions, FREE ENTRY on Mondays and Thursdays, free entry to under 16’s Opening Times Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 – 20:00, Sunday 11:30 – 18:00 David Lynch : The Factory Photographs 17th January – 30th March…

Review : “WITNESS MATTER” : Vitrine Gallery

“WITNESS MATTER” – Leah Capaldi and Stephanie Saade The Vitrine Gallery, Bermondsey Street, London Wednesday 22nd January – Saturday 22nd February 2014 Wednesday – Friday 12–7pm (Saturday 12-6pm)   [Leah Capaldi “Strange Parts” : Stephanie Saade “Props” ] “Witness Matter” combines works from two artists whose practices attempt to explore the performativity of both the art object and…

Art Book Review : Nature Morte

[ Sharon Core · 1782, from the series Flowers, 2011, Archival pigment print · 44.5 × 38.1 cm (17 1/2 × 15 in.) · edition of 7 · Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery · © Sharon Core ] Bringing the past tradition of ‘still life’ into contemporary art seems, at first thought, to be…

Art Book Review : Art Studio America

    [All images: “© TransGlobe Publishing from Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces published by Thames & Hudson” ] Thriving, eclectic and exciting, the in-famous American dream lives on within the realm of contemporary art, a notion that is perfectly illustrated within the covers of this large-format, lavishly illustrated, high quality, new publication. Art Studio…

“In Ethiopia”, Nikolai von Bismarck : Private View

“In Ethiopia” 12 Francis Street, Victoria, London, SW1P 1QP 4th – 8th December 2013 Wednesday – Saturday 11:00 – 17:00 Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 [“Marching Whipper”, Nikolai von Bismarck, Hamar Tribe, Ethiopia, 2012 ]  “In Ethiopia”, the first solo exhibition by Nikolai von Bismarck, displays over 20 black and white, framed images captured during his experiences as…

Paradoxical Photography

[ Chechnya, 1996 – No man’ s land between Russian army and Chechen rebels in Grozny.] “I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”  – James Nachtwey James Nachtwey is considered to be one of the greatest photo-journalists of…

VITRINE : Clare Kenny : ‘Yesterday’s Labour is the Future’s Folly’

VITRINE, 183 – 185 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW info@vitrinegallery.co.uk Clare Kenny : ‘Yesterday’s Labour is the Future’s Folly’ Wednesday 16th October  – Friday 22nd November 2013 (Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 7pm)   Clare Kenny ‘Yesterday’s labour is the Future’s folly’ Installation Shot, VITRINE, ‘Meteorite’ 2013, (80 x 60 x 40 cm) Clare Kenny (b.…

Adult Art

Sex is found in art. But because it is hung on a gallery wall, in a brightly lit room, alongside other works and viewed in public does this mean it cannot be classified as pornographic? Or because it is ‘art’ does it instead count as ‘erotica’? Although typically it is male artists who approach sexuality…