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Nancy Fouts show extended until end of July. A must see. 52 Oakley Square, NW1
Archives: Posted: 2009
AM BRUNO at IMT
Reverential silence punctuated by muted conversation and hushed mingling greeted visitors last Saturday at the IMT Gallery. White gloved hands hesitantly peeled apart pages, untied ribbons, unfurled scrolls and pried open boxes and envelopes. Growing numbers crowded around a table to peer at the 'book art form' produced......

Posted: Apr 28 2009 | More...

Other spaces
There's lots and lots of sunny openings this week, including new exhibitions by four of the best artist-run spaces in London right now! Thursday evening brings two solo shows by up-and-coming artists in up-and-coming galleries. Firstly, Supplement will present their second exhibition of 2009, Hayes Moods, a new installation by......

Posted: Apr 27 2009 | More...

Elevator Gallery presents Debord and the 'Society of the Spectacle'
The Hackney-Wick-based Elevator Gallery ventured across to King's Cross last night to present the second in a series of three talks on contemporary theory. The host is the radical bookshop Housman's on the Caledonian road, and a strange mixture of young arty types and hairy middle aged men in......

Posted: Apr 23 2009 | More...

MA Photography Interim Show at the London College of Communication
Showcasing the development of MA Photography students' work at this half way stage in the course, the LCC interim show exhibition provides a platform upon which they are able to test the waters for gallery presentation of their work. Conceptualised as a one-year intensive fine art oriented course, the......

Posted: Apr 22 2009 | More...

SPILL National Platform at the National Theatre Studios
Designed to showcase new talent in performance art, the National Platform made good its promise of creating a space for emerging artists to rub shoulders with some of the most admired practitioners of this art form at the Spill Festival of Performance. With twenty or so back-to-back performances to......

Posted: Apr 21 2009 | More...

I love art
Summer's on its way and love is in the air, hopefully... The most exciting and romantic opening of the week should be Hannah Barry Gallery's second special project, To Paint Is To Love Again, Painters From Peckham, which sees the cutting-edge South London space take up temporary residence in Mayfair,......

Posted: Apr 20 2009 | More...

The Reluctant Photojournalist: Photographs by Werner Bischof at the Magnum Print Room
Tucked away in a small corner of Gee Street, the unassuming Magnum Print Room is paying tribute to Swiss photojournalist Werner Bischof. A contemporary of war photographer Robert Capa, Bischof went from studio work to fashion and cultural photography before finding his true niche in documenting war-ravaged communities. He......

Posted: Apr 17 2009 | More...

Triple Bill at Shunt Vaults (Tears of Eros | The Modes of Al-Ikseer | Listen, My Secret Fetish)
In this slow-paced Triple Bill of solo performances setting the artists' bodies within haunting soundscapes, Shunt Vaults is gradually recovering from 'Visions of Excess', a twelve-hour feast of live art at its most daring displayed there on April 12th. The evening gets off to a fine start with Carla Esperanza......

Posted: Apr 16 2009 | More...

Shoe Horn at Crimes Town
The Crimes Town website bills their current exhibition as 'four artists shoe-horned into one group show', and implores viewers not to "confine interpretations.merely to any common denominators". So, this curatorial shoe horning is a little act of necessary force, but one which aims to induce a sort of freeing-up,......

Posted: Apr 14 2009 | More...

Last Supper at the David Roberts Foundation
Two of our writers experience the Robert Ayala performance from either side of the forth wall

Posted: Apr 12 2009 | More...

Towner Gallery Opening
'Springtime by the seaside'; the evening's dresscode takes on an unexpectedly dystopian resonance to the inhabitants of an airless car, caught in a sundrenched tailback on the A12. It's dark by the time we arrive in Eastbourne, and the ceremonial ribbon has long since been snipped, the speeches applauded,......

Posted: Apr 07 2009 | More...

Want to see some art this week?
It is sunny and quite frankly splendid outside. Our grizzly, grey city is bathed in a wash of bronze rays. Here are a few art events happening this week. 'What a Circus' opens at the beautiful St.Pancreas Crypt today. It is a colourful and humorous mixed media show by......

Posted: Apr 06 2009 | More...

Acquire Arts Launch Party
Iain Woods and The Psychologist is an eponymous project described as "pop music's evil twin". On Friday, he officially launched Acquire Arts, the South West's newest addition to an ever expanding hub of galleries including Studio Voltaire and Albion. This pop alter-ego posits an ongoing conceptual art work, coined when......

Posted: Apr 05 2009 | More...

Condensation 2009 at the Bodhi Gallery
Art shows born of class rooms have a tendency to be eclectic. There is no need to provide a connection between the artists' work beyond the coincidence that they all took the same art course. Such was the case at Condensation where all styles, media and range of quality......

Posted: Apr 04 2009 | More...

Bridge 2 Worlds at Menier Gallery
The immediate challenge of a general exhibition presenting contemporary Indian art is where to begin. The notion that a single show can do justice to the teeming artistic diversity of the country seems immediately questionable. 'Indian Highway' at the Serpentine Gallery this winter sought to provide a cross-section snapshot......

Posted: Apr 03 2009 | More...

Yes Way at Auto Italia
Last weekend, Auto Italia, a large project space near Burgess Park in Peckham, teamed up with music promoters Upset the Rhythm. The result was 'Yes Way': two 12 hour sessions of art and music, encompassing 15 artists, 32 bands, and streams of art students (the 500 tickets sold out......

Posted: Apr 02 2009 | More...