London-based artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have most certainly etched out a creative niche for themselves over the years... Former classmates and fine arts graduates, the pair have been exhibiting regularly on the international circuit since the 1980’s. With a wide medium…
As I’m writing this, one-fifth of the world’s population are under lockdown; with the streets of once sleepless cities now eerily bereft of the vibrant life that once pulsed through it’s veins. Here in London the museums and galleries have closed to the public until further not…
Sashaying through town with all the flamboyant vivacity and frivolity of a high-society ball, Bright Young Things has finally touched down at London’s National Portrait Gallery, and will be on public display until June 2020. With a good portion of the 170 works being exhibited …
After years of freefall, the Berlin International Film Festival has new leadership and not only the fall has been retained but also the ascent begins. Ten days of multifariousness cinema left behind. The 70th iteration of the Berlin International Film Festival (February, 20 …
Love painting but find that you’re only ever concerned with works from the classical period? Well then don’t. A new generation of painters are using the figurative form to challenge the way in which we perceive the world that we have inherited; invoking timely social and politica…
As is quite often the case with much of the arts in contemporary circles, the often lopsided distribution of the public spotlight has in some instances meant that over the decades some work has played the forefront - whilst other notable works from the same artist (for some reaso…
From foggy tunnels to galleries of rain, Olafur Eliasson’s hypnotic installations highlight the state of the planet. It would be hard to think of a more "real" and alarming issue than climate change. Entitled In Real Life, the show that Nordic artist Olafur Eliasson opened at th…
The contemporary art gallery La Grey opens the new year 2020 with the exhibition "El Orden, El Límite, El Afuera" by Onofre Bachiller. On display until 21st February, Bachiller invites us to reflect on repetition as a ritual and the eternal return as an abyss of existence. "Eve…
Forty years after Robert Morris' first solo exhibition in Italy, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome commemorates the work of the American master in his sixty-year career. Known for his minimalist works and also related to other contemporary trends such as…
A pair of talented creatives are challenging our perception of Dyslexia through the self-expressive art of movement and dance. Charlotte Edmonds and Elizabeth Arifien have put their heads together to establish Words Fail Me; a collaborative of sorts that seeks to shine new ligh…