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Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place, Modern Art, Oxford (Rated 3/ 5 )
Does a decade of new work from the abstract painter Howard Hodgkin, who is currently climbing up the hill towards his ninth decade, reveal a different kind of an artist? Yes and no. Much hangs – as it has always done – upon the titles of these 25 new works. Hodgkin's titles have always been something of a tease. They have seemed to be leading us somewhere quite precise. They have often suggested intimate domestic moments with friends or lovers. People and places have been named as if we were being introduced to something baldly – or perhaps even boldly – descriptive.
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Oscar Tuazon: My Mistake, ICA, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
Thursday, 24 June 2010
True to the nature of this show, I'm going to give it to you straight. This exhibition from the Seattle-born, Paris-based artist Oscar Tuazon is made of several pieces of rough wooden beams fixed together in large structures. It's a fairly brutal gesture, and not an entirely friendly one. But perhaps I can persuade you not to run away, and that this is an artist worth regarding.
Ernesto Neto, Hayward Gallery, London
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Festival Brazil kicks off on the South Bank with Ernesto Neto's dazzling playground for adults. Art shouldn't be this much fun...
The Wyeth Family, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Only one winner in this generation game
Johan Grimonprez, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (Rated 5/ 5 )
Friday, 11 June 2010
Countless airplanes, one after the other, explode on the screen in front of you, on the runway and in the sky, terrifying in their horrifying, graceful demise. How can we understand such footage? What has it done to us? Can artists tell us? You might find some answers to these questions at Edinburgh's consistently excellent Fruitmarket Gallery, in an exhibition devoted to the works of the Belgian anthropologist-turned-film-artist Johan Grimonprez.
Picasso: the Mediterranean Years (1945-62), Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Pablo's derring-do period
Newspeak: British Art Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Sunday, 6 June 2010
A greyer and wiser Charles Saatchi – 67 this week – puts on a show that has little truck with novelty and is all the better for it
Antony Gormley, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 4 June 2010
Antony Gormley has come to embody what we might think of as a "public" artist. You might think about popularity, or the populace when you think of his work: commuters zipping past the Angel of the North on the A1, or last year's One and the Other, his project for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square that saw members of the public standing on the plinth. He is popular, and perhaps feels that his popularity is looked down on by the art world. Is he really an artist of the people, then? Perhaps not.
Bridget Riley: From Life, National Portrait Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Faces of a young op artist
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera, Tate Modern, London
Sunday, 30 May 2010
A show at Tate Modern suggests that the supposed objectivity of the lens obscures a much nastier truth
Stuart Pearson Wright: I Remember You/Maze, Riflemaker Gallery, London/1 Berwick Street, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Portrait of the artist as a shape-shifter
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