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A K Dolven: please return

A K Dolven’s work is supremely elegant. Exploring her body’s sensual relationship to the Norwegian landscape that she calls home … More

A K Dolven, Birmingham, exhibition review, Ikon Gallery, please return

Birmingham Show

Curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, ‘Birmingham Show’ at Eastside Projects proposes three specific questions as starting points from … More

Anna Barham, Antonio Roberts, Birmingham, Birmingham Show, Easton Hurd, Eastside Projects, Gavin Wade, Keith Piper, Leah Carless, Meghan Allbright, Mohammed Ali, New Art WM, review, Richard Hughes, Roger Hiorns, Ruth Claxton, Sofia Hulten

Témoins ocula­ires

Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to … More

Bristol, Isabelle Cornaro, Spike Island, Témoins ocula­ires

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (M)

I wanted to be a dancer when I was a child. My mother booked me ballet lessons, but after a … More

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, Arnolfini, Bristol, Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, Gathering Storm, IBT15, In Between Time, Marlene Freitas, Mimosa, review, Trajel Harrell

Josephine Pryde: These are just things I say, they are not my opinions

Riding a miniature locomotive train through an exhibition is an unlikely way to experience a series of photographs. The train … More

Arnolfini, Bristol, Josephine Pryde, photography, Photomonitor

Upcoming reviews and In Between Time Festival

I am delighted to have been selected for the Writers Programme for the upcoming In Between Time Festival in Bristol. … More

Birmingham Show, Bristol, Croft Castle, Eastside Projects, exhibition reviews, In Another Light, In Between Time, Isabelle Cornaro, Meadow Arts, New Art Gallery Walsall, Sikander Pervez, Spike Island

I Sell the Shadow to Save the Substance

An exhibition of new photographs by Birmingham-based Lucy Hutchinson takes as its central idea the ways in which identities are … More

GRAIN, Library of Birmingham, Lucy Hutchinson, photography, Photomonitor

Conflict, Time, Photography

Toshio Fukada’s series of gelatin silver prints, ‘The Mushroom Cloud – Less than Twenty Minutes after the Explosion’ (1945), show … More

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Conflict Time Photography, Don McCullin, George N. Barnard, Luc Delahaye, Photomonitor, Roger Fenton, Simon Norfolk, Sophie Ristelhueber’, Tate Modern, Toshio Fukada

Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena

MOT Projects’ current exhibition investigates the uses and possible abuses of written, spoken and constructed forms of language. Curated by … More

Cicely Farrer, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, John Bloomfield, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kim Schoen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, MOT International, MOT Projects, Nicole Bachmann, Patrick Goddard, review, this is tomorrow

Pipilotti Rist: Worry Will Vanish

There is something quite particular about viewing artwork from a horizontal position. A relaxed body, upturned eye and slowness of … More

Apollo Magazine, exhibition review, Hauser & Wirth, Pipilotti Rist, Worry Will Vanish

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