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Fusion of the Divide Review

Fusion of the Divide Review

The divide between art and architecture is the theme of Candid Arts’ latest group exhibition, which promotes dialogue between the two disciplines in order to attempt to bridge the gap between them...
Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers Review

Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers Review

‘Between Eagles and Pioneers’ is a collection of new works that explore German history through the lens of cultural symbolism and personal memory. The exhibition is comprised of two series of large-scale canvases...
Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin: Do Not Abandon Me Review

Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin: Do Not Abandon Me Review

Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin both blur the boundary between art and life by pouring the turbulent history of an individual’s psyche into the work. The difference between them is that...
Photolanguage: Herbarium Vol. II Dark Season Fieldwork Review

Photolanguage: Herbarium Vol. II Dark Season Fieldwork Review

Photolanguage, a collaboration between Nigel Green and Robin Wilson, follow their 2008 lecture, Dark Season Botany, with a second instalment on related themes. The exhibition...
Gilbert & George: The Urethra Postcard Art Review

Gilbert & George: The Urethra Postcard Art Review

It has been twenty years since Gilbert & George last exhibited postcards and forty years since they first worked in the medium. In this show the pair return to the medium, and rework their  familiar preoccupation with the underbelly of contemporary society, using the finite space of the postcard to celebrate the degenerate, discarded, grotesque...
Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) Review

Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) Review

imon Starling has curated Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) by searching through the entirety of Camden Arts Centre’s archives The thirty selected works have then been placed in the exact position in which they were placed first time around. The result is a living journey through recent art history, a Greatest Hits...
Rachel Kneebone: Lamentations 2010 Review

Rachel Kneebone: Lamentations 2010 Review

This latest offering from Rachel Kneebone demonstrates how there can be fluidity in solidity, eroticism in death, and delicacy in the grotesque. These porcelain sculptures, inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphosis, reveal to us the ultimate fragility of mortal bodies and remind us that stability of form is a comfortable illusion.
Author Profile: Daniel Barnes

Author Profile: Daniel Barnes

Daniel is a London-based philosopher and art critic.