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News of contemporary, modern art including works around the world by both leading and emerging artists.

Jason Bruges Studio Floral Guide London

Art

Floral Guide is a public artwork installation at Kew by Jason Bruges Studio

Jason Bruges Studio has created a family of artwork that uses technology to transform the urban experience and bring people closer to nature. Floral Guide is an interactive media artwork that aims to  enliven the journey of a newly opened underpass at Kew Bridge Station in London. The work is a response to the nearby Royal Botanic Gardens and an exploration of  nature's colour-based wayfinding system. Jason Bruges Studio

S94D Donal Judd Aluminium Furniture Install

Art | Events | Exhibition

Donald Judd exhibition at the New York gallery S94 Design

February to 1 April 2023

The gallery S94 Design has moved to the Rafael Viñoly designed New York landmark 3 East 89th Street. S94D currently hosts exhibits including 'Aluminium Furniture' by Donald Judd,  Kwangho Lee's first solo exhibition in New York, 'Infinite Expansion' and Ernst Gamperl's 'The Houghton Oak Project'. S94 Design

Tate St Ives Csablanca Art School Mohammed Chabâa Untitled 1977

Art | Exhibition

Tate St Ives present an exhibition of The Casablanca Art School, ‘Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962-1987’

27 May 2023 to 14 January 2024

The Tate St Ives presents an exhibition of the revolutionary approach of The Casablanca Art School, which proposed a bold new visual culture following Morocco's independence in 1956. The School explored the combination of traditional Berber skills with modernist influences from Europe and North Africa, creating a new perspective for the post-colonial era. Photo © Mohammed Chabâa Estate. Tate St Ives

2022 NGV Architecture Commission Temple of Boom

Architecture | Art

The 2022 NGV Architecture Commission in Melbourne is ‘The Temple of Boom’

The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne commissioned Adam Newman and Kevin Tsang, both of  NWMN architects, to create the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission. The commission named 'The Temple of Boom' reimagines the Parthenon in Athens, and over the coming months it will be painted over by local street and urban artists to reflect the unstoppable process of change. Photo Sean Fennessy. NGV

Frieze London 2022

Art | Events | Exhibition

Frieze London 2022

12 to 16 October 2022

Frieze London and Frieze Masters will take place at London's Regents Park. It features 280 galleries from 42 countries. Alongside the main exhibition Focus will feature galleries established in the last 12 years. Frieze

Frieze London 2021

Art | Events | Exhibition

Frieze London 2021

13 to 17 October 2021

Major galleries from around the world come together at Frieze London and Frieze Masters in London's Regents Park. Events include talks and special projects.

freize art fair 2018

Art | Events | Exhibition

Frieze London 2018

5-7 October 2018 (Preview 3 & 4 October)

The 16th edition of Frieze London feature around 160 galleries with art from over 1000 of todays leading artists. Frieze London coincides with Frieze Sculpture and Frieze Masters at Regent's Park. Frieze London 2018.

frieze art fair new york 2018

Art | Events | Exhibition

Frieze Art New York Fair 2018

3 May - 6 May 2018 at Randall's Island Park

Frieze New York, led by the director of Frieze Fairs Victoria Siddall and Artistic director Loring Randolph, features over 1,000 leading contemporary and modern artists at more than 190 galleries from 30 countries.  Frieze

Art | Events | Exhibition

Monet and Architecture at the National Gallery London

9 April - 29 July 2018.

The National Gallery in London features an exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet's paintings of architecture. The image above is of Monet's Thames below Westminster (La Tamise et le Parlement) painted about 1871. © The National Gallery, London.  National Gallery

damien hirst flesh tint

Art | Events | Exhibition

New Paintings by Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall

25 March - 15 July 2018.

This exhibition at Houghton Hall, as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, will feature new paintings by Damien Hirst that will be shown to the public for the first time. The series of paintings, titled Colour Space will include Flesh Tint (shown above). Flesh Tint (2016) Household gloss on canvas 610 x 813 mm Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2017.  NN Festival

Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect monet

Art | Events | Exhibition

Impressionists in London at Tate Britain

2 November 2017 - 7 May 2018.

The 'Impressionists in London' exhibition at the Tate Britain displays over 100 works including art by Monet, Tissot and Pissaro, created while the artists were in exile in Britain during the Franco-Prussian war. The exhibition explores London through the eyes of the French artists, and is curated by Dr Caroline Corbeau-Parsons. Tate Britain




os and oos matrix bench

Art | Design | Furniture | Objects

OS and OOS Matrix Bench

Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen of OS and OOS designed the Matrix Bench as part of the Matix project. The project aims to create a system with endless configurations using a grid structure that changes from being almost transparent to solid depending on the perspective. Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen work from Eidenhover in the Netherlands and created OS and OOs in 2011. OS and OOS

briget riley david zwirner

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Bridget Riley 2014-2017 at the David Zwirner Gallery in London

19 January - 10 March 2018.

Bridget Riley's work from the last four years will be on display at the David Zwirner gallery at 24 Grafton Street, London W1.  David Zwirner

cityworks-london-blueprint

Art | Design | Objects

Moritz & Ottesen Blueprint Series Prints

Moritz & Ottisen's ‘blueprints’ series is inspired by intricate architectural drawings. These prussian blue prints capture the charming complexity of different cities. The London Blueprint features Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye. High quality print on 240gsm Munken paper. The City Works

dorothy electric love blueprint

Art | Design | Objects

Dorothy electric love blueprint

Metallic silver screen print on 120gsm Keaykolour Royal Blue uncoated paper. A history of electronic music mapped out to the circuit board of a theremin, which is widely regarded as one of the first electronic musical instruments. Electric Love Blueprint celebrates over 200 inventors, innovators, artists, composers and musicians who (in Dorothy's opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of electronic music from the invention of the earliest known sound recording device in 1857 to the present day. Dorothy




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