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January 17, 2020
A Picasso-Pollock mashup and Dalí's Hollywood haunts – the week in art
Alex Israel enters the surrealist’s ghostly head, Art & Language put their spin on art history, and Susan Hiller flips a coin to start her London Jukebox – all in your weekly dispatch
Art & Language
The conceptual art pioneers merge Picasso’s Guernica with Jackson Pollock’s drips in a provocative visual “essay” on the history of modern art.
• Sprovieri, London, from 17 January until 13 March.
What to see this week in the UK
From Waves to Beat Horizon, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Continue reading...January 14, 2020
The Sistine Chapel in Sussex – painted by the Michelangelo of Goring-by-Sea
How did a church in a quiet Sussex borough end up with an astonishing, hand-painted copy of the world’s most famous ceiling? Deacon Gary Bevans talks us through his creation
The Sistine Chapel is easy to find. Just follow the A259 through Goring-by-Sea until you see the low, spireless red brick English Martyrs Church. Enter this Catholic place of worship – and look up.Above the simple wooden pews, laid out in bold yellows, greens, pinks and blues, you can see God dividing the land and waters, making the sun and Earth, reaching out a powerful finger to spark life into Adam.
It’s Michelangelo’s masterpiece all right, superbly replicated by the Sussex church’s deacon, Gary Bevans. Created between 1987 and 1993, his achievement seems all the more remarkable now that digital reproductions of the original are having a bit of a moment. HBO’s The Young Pope and its follow-up The New Pope both use hi-tech digital copies, as does Netflix’s The Two Popes. Yet Bevans’ version is hand-painted. That makes it a human story – and a human masterpiece.
Continue reading...January 10, 2020
Trump's threat to Iranian treasures and flashbacks to fascist Italy – the week in art
The president’s bomb targets, the future of speed and flight, the power of maternality, and the creations of a political refugee potter – all in your weekly dispatch
The Four Ages of Woman
Madge Gill, Anna Kavan and political refugee potter Bibi Herrera are among the visionary artists in this exhibition about mind, creativity and gender.
• Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, until 25 April.
What to see this week in the UK
From 1917 to Uncle Vanya, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Continue reading...January 3, 2020
Rembrandt smoulders, Turner blazes and gravity has a drink – the week in art
Turner sets January alight, India’s miniaturists create wonders, the third decade begins and Rembrandt’s embers feed the soul – all in your weekly dispatch
Turner in January
This annual artistic treat unveils the fiery blasts of light that are JMW Turner’s watercolours.
• Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 1-31 January.
What to see this week in the UK
From Little Women to Northern Ballet, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Continue reading...January 2, 2020
Palette cleansers: our photography, art and architecture picks for 2020
Warhol is revealed as a prophet, London goes down the rabbit hole and Don McCullin takes his masterworks to Merseyside
Continue reading...How Tracey Emin is giving Munch the mother he never had
A lifelong fascination with the Norwegian creator of The Scream has been turned into 15 tonnes of bronze, soon to be installed at a new museum in Oslo
‘Munch’s mother died when he was very young,” says Tracey Emin. “So I want to give him a mother.” And what a mother she is giving him. The artist’s nine-metre bronze colossus will be unveiled in 2020, at the new Munch Museum in Oslo harbour. Emin has been fascinated by Edvard Munch’s brokenhearted art all her life. Now her giant Mother will be a permanent feature of the fjord he so famously depicted under a blood red sky in The Scream.
Yet this monumental image of a naked woman kneeling and hunched over an invisible child began as a small, fragile, handmade object. “It started off with me playing with clay,” says Emin, who didn’t think she had a chance when she entered the international competition to find a public artwork for Oslo’s Museum Island. Other candidates included the acclaimed Scandinavian artists Olafur Eliasson and Ragnar Kjartansson. But intimacy won.
Continue reading...December 27, 2019
What to see this week in the UK
From Jojo Rabbit to Craig David, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
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