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Tryphena Absent

13:08 / 15.07.03

I thought it might be nice if there was a thread detailing exhibitions that we had been to see but the kind that didn't necessitate a separate thread. Something to inform people on temporary shows rather than debate or express the brilliance of them.

This idea has pretty much come in to my head since I went to see the Bridget Riley exhibition that is currently showing in the Tate Britain. Most of the work is quite famous, it is presented chronologically from her '60s monochrome work to her current paintings. It's a very good presentation though I've seen most of the pieces separately and I think most worthwhile for the early black and white series. I'd recommend it to people who have never seen any of her work or those who really like her but if you're a bit half hearted there's no point.

11:16 / 06.12.04

I enjoyed Eyes, Lies And Illusions at the Hayward Gallery a great deal -as well as the rooms about the history of optical illusions, there's also Anthony McCall's 'Line Describing A Cone', which is my new favourite installation. Not got loads to add, but it's worth going to see (especially if you want to go to a fun exhibition)

17:15 / 06.12.04

Aaaaaugh! So. Not. Fair.

I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and Line Defining a Cone was being exhibited, but wasn't working. And then I went to the Hayward Gallery, and it was out of order there, too! Waaaah.

(The exhibition is good, though. I recommend at least two hours to view it...)

03:09 / 11.12.04

oh I don't have any to comment on in my area, but somakitty @ another message board I frequent always posts pictures and small reviews of what she's gone to see.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:18 / 14.12.04

The British Library's Writers in the Garden exhibition is nice and free.

Has anyone been to the Science Museum's Future Face exhibition? I personally wasn't impressed but thought that this is the sort of thing that would get interest and attention from Barbeloids.

pointless and uncalled for

13:59 / 24.12.04

Once again I tout The Photographers Gallery. They really should pay me for this.

They have two exhibitions running at the moment.

The first is from Bettina von Zwehl in the cafe. Once again she has created a series of portraits in which there are two variables, the sitter and their reaction to a fixed set of environmental conditions. Of these 12 pictures only one of them has any form of symmetry, which has quite an interesting effect.

Johan Grimonprez has created a rather compelling body of work based around a selected group of Alfred Hitchcock lookalikes. The pictures lead quite nicely in and out of the film which distills a number of the cinematic methods used by Hitchcock into a layered narrative thread.

08:17 / 22.02.05

There's a Jospeh Beuys exhibition at the Tate Modern, which I enjoyed, and may start a thread on if I've marshalled my thoughts sufficiently while it's still relevant. I'd only seen (a bit of) his smaller scale work before, and thought that the installations were a lot more interesting, particularly Economic Values.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

11:24 / 22.02.05

I personally didn't think that much of the Beuys exhibition, I was just thankful that I got in free, so didn't feel ripped off. However, I thought even less of the Anthony Caro free exhibition at Tate Britain but then I'm not that good with abstract stuff. I didn't like the first couple of rooms with the painted stuff, I much preferred the later stuff with reformed and resculpted scrap metal, I suspect because that was stuff that had been taken and reused, whereas the earlier stuff was only ever used to make the exhibits. The church as nice but the Millbank Steps really typified the whole exhibition for me, it was all going over my head.

16:04 / 24.02.05

Went to see the Exhibition on the Turks at the RA earlier this week. To be honest I was a little disappointed - the scope of the exhibition was following the story of peoples know as the 'turks' from 600AD to 1600AD, but what soon becomes clear is that the Turkic speaking Uighurs of 600AD had very little, if anything, in common with the Ottomans of 1600. Also, by choosing 1600 as an arbitary cut off point, the exhibition failed to explore the incredibly interesting next 422 years of the Ottoman empire...

00:12 / 26.02.05

Christian Marclay at the Barbican. Probably one of the best exhibitions I've ever seen. The early work is cool and witty (doctored record sleeves, lots of fun with vinyl, an open reel tape player that plays the sound of dripping water as the tape piles up on the floor) but the recent video work is just astounding. The mighty Video Quartet (soon to be given a permanent home in Tate Modern, so I believe) has to be seen/heard: Four adjacent projections show edited clips from about 700 movies, soundtracks intact, of various instruments being played or singing (or people shouting "No!" at one point). It's a Plunderphonic symphony, and quite possibly my favourite piece of 21st Century Art. Guitar Drag and Telephones are also great. As an artist exploring the links between sound and image, he's Number 1! It's also nice to go to a gallery and read on one of the cards "From the collection of Thurston Moore"...

You also get to see the Tina Barney exhibition upstairs with the same ticket, but I thought it was quite dull.

10:09 / 28.02.05

Meem, thanks for the tip on the Christian Marclay -enjoyed that a lot! I quite enjoyed the Tina Barney as well, although it was quite patchy as an exhibition.

Our Lady -did you go to the Strindberg at the same time as the Beuys? I was considering going to the former at some point, so would be interested to hear what other people thought of it!

15:58 / 14.03.05

I'm going to try to get to the Caravaggio exhibition which is on at the National Gallery this week. I'm not sure how busy it will be, but I'll probably go early just in case. I think it's on till May.

11:30 / 21.03.05

I haven't been to the Caravaggio yet. Was gonna go this morning but was meeting a friend and we didn't have time.

There's an Andy Goldsworthy show at the Albion, which is somewhere in Battersea. It finishes next week. And it's free!

foot long subbacultcha

14:36 / 21.03.05

Christian Marclay thing sounds cool. I'll try to go check that out.

22:35 / 31.03.05

You really should, FLS...

Went to to a private view of the Robert Crumb exhibition at the Whitechapel today. It was great, but only had half an hour or so to spare so didn't quite take it all in. And there's a lot. Comic collections out to read, loads of original artwork and some very early work on display. There's also screenings of Crumb and the Arena documantary about him. Basically, everything you could ever need to know about the man and his work. Just make sure you've got plenty of time...

14:53 / 05.04.05

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by a mate to blather about the Crumb show on ResurrectionFM today, but I'm not going to cos a) I haven't seen it yet, and b) my mate never got back to me. Gah.

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:37 / 05.04.05

Pointless and uncalled for, did you ever see Grimonperez's DIALhistory?

Wonderful, and worryingly prescient (made/first exhibited in 1997, it's a montage/commentary on every plane-hijacking up to that year...)

Am looking forward to seeing Kutlag Ataman's Kuba very much, anyone seen it yet?

Tryphena Absent

08:20 / 06.04.05

I've only seen the section that was part of the Turner Prize show. For weeks I walked past the Kuba signs and thought they were pointing to some new, fangled and immensely annoying bar. Very pleased to discover that it's actually an exhibition.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:22 / 07.04.05

I fancy having a gander at John Virtue's London Paintings, either next wednesday or the following weekend. PM/e-mail me if anyone fancies coming along...

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:33 / 08.04.05

If you get a chance, pop into the ICA. There's all that Becks Futures nonsense, but in the digital bar they are showcasing the Invisible Force Field Experiment, a lovely piece of sci-fi whimsy. Worth a peek.

The Timaximus, The!

00:19 / 23.04.05

I suppose it's a little late for this, but the Jacques-Louis David: Empire To Exile exhibition ends this weekend (24 April) at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. No, there aren't many of the big famous paintings (except for Napoleon crossing the Alps), but there's a ton of just amazing portraits, along with some more neoclassical scenes and drawings and sketches. I think the show might be travelling, but I'm not sure where or when.

11:59 / 11.07.05

The Tate Modern currently have a wee display on Nazism and Degenerate Art, which has some of the works from the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition in the 1930s, and a bit about the history of art in the Third Reich. It also has Klee's Walpurgis Night, which is brilliant and which I'd not seen before. It's on level 3 until September, and is free -well worth going to see!

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:10 / 12.07.05

Definitely want to see that. Looking upthread - hey, GGM, did you make it to Kuba? What did you think?

Pimping the ICA again, but in its last week is Martha Rosler's Garage Sale at the ICA. The fact that we don't really have garage sales in the UK (or have I just never been suburban enough?) makes it feel more like an exhibition called "charity shop", but the relationship of the event and the space was interesting, as was Rosler's video accompaniment.

Also, and perhaps most importantly.

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14:11 / 15.07.05

I caught the Tim Hawkinson show at the Whitney Museum before it left in May. I have to say it's one of the best shows i've seen. He has such a wide range of sculptures, my personal favorite was a small bird skeleton that he made entirely from his own fingernails. It's only about two inches tall. I like that he can go from such a small scale all the way up to 'Uberorgan' which takes up a huge amount of space and creates such great sounds. If you have a chance to check out his work in person, you should definitely take it.

11:14 / 24.10.05

The Degas / Sickert / Tolouse-Latrec at the Tate Britain is good; very interesting in terms of the changing attitudes to the human body at the time, and what was considered controversial around the time it was painted. I'd not known that L'Absinthe pictured people in the public eye before, I'd always assumed Degas used models. We went on Sunday afternoon, and the gallery was absolutely packed, so if you can make it during the week I'd probably recommend doing that.

Keith, like a scientist

13:46 / 24.10.05

Cleveland's 1300 Gallery is hosting two shows at the moment. The main gallery has a very cool split show featuring Thomas M. Lowery and Tim Callaghan. The opening was this past Friday, and was well intended and impressive.

In the adjoining Assemble space, they have been hosting a show by Damion Silver, they I am very wowed by.

The entire 1300 Gallery facility is a fantastic building that houses galleries as well as offices and studio spaces (including owner Derek Hess's studio).

wandering aengus

05:23 / 26.10.05

well... i guess i'll represent the new yorkers here. In Chelsea there's a great show of Magi Puig, a rather obscure but wonderful Catalonian painter at Stricoff Fine Art.
There's a show of Zak Smith's ink paintings at Fredericks & Freiser-- he's been mentioned before in the lit pages, having done a page-by-page illustration of Gravity's Rainbow...
Zero Higashida had a huge, amazing welded steel sculpture up at Robert Steel, along with great smaller stuff, but that just went down.
John Pylypchuk's stuffed-animal characters, both amusing and disturbing, deserve double-or triple-take: at China Art Objects.
otherwise, Chelsea's a bit dry right now.

15:09 / 25.03.06

Next weekend is its last, so I'm recommending that everyone who can go and see the Dan Flavin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery. I was thinking about writing something about it on the 'Art and place' thread, because I think the Hayward is a brilliant space for this; the first room is a 'barrier' of green flourescent tubes:

...which looks rather superb when it's lighting up the huge 60's concrete staircase. Anyway, this is an excellent show if you like art, or fun, or staring at flourescent tubes until your pupils turn into pinpricks, or all of the above.

03:06 / 17.04.06

if anyone is in the bolton area or fancy traveling to manchester where bolton can be found - i suggest exhibition "debris field" @ the bolton museum. interesting multimedia installation pieces and paintings with sound coming out of them. the exhibition is exquisitely curated, especially considering the size of the space. :click here: this is one of the artist's site how also curated the show.