1:47pm
I first saw Oscar Munoz’s Project for a Memorial (2005) in the Robert Storr-curated Venice Biennial in 2007. Projected across five alternating screens, Oscar Munoz’s
hand hurriedly paints water portraits on a hot pavement. Almost as soon as they are created, each face has already started to evaporate.
The installation stood out at the Arsenale amongst the pseudo-political screamers for being simple and unassuming, and the most effective. Both the subtlety of the piece, and the evident dexterity of Oscar Munoz’s lone hand moving in isolation across the screens provokes an unexpected commitment to this video art (unusual, I...
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12:54pm
Apollo Muse invited you to submit your reviews of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Below is a review of the show, written by Tom Gayford, who visited the RA after a certain accident hit the headlines...
If you’re desperate to escape the summer heat, it might be worth your while to drop into the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition (open until the 17th of August) – but watch your step. Last Saturday a visitor slipped and knocked over a nine-foot tall sculpture by Tatiana Echeverri, leaving it in fragments on the floor.
Not all of the exhibits are so fragile, however,...
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11:00am
Anyone wishing to idle away an hour or so would do well to visit Tate Britain’s current exhibition ‘Drawn from the Collection’ which gives an airing to a small selection of the thousands of drawings that Tate holds as part of the national collections of prints and drawings.
The show clearly aims to be a gentle crowd pleaser with themes such as ‘faces’ and ‘creatures’ (as opposed to ‘portraits’ or ‘anatomy’) and is very much about ticking the commendable box of airing works that are rarely or never before exhibited. The strength of the exhibition lies not just in seeing...
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3:51pm
There is still time to catch a small but fascinating exhibition at the Wellcome Collection – ‘From Atoms to Patterns’ runs until 10 August and tells the story of ‘Crystal structure designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain’. I’ll admit that it’s a highly specific-sounding title, but will make a curious trip down memory lane for anyone who can remember their parents’ or grandparents’ home furnishings, or those they aspired to, at least.
The focus of the show is the scientific breakthroughs of the 1950s and their use in domestic design. I had always assumed that ’50s dresses had...
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1:11pm
A small press soirée at London’s National Gallery last night provided further opportunity to view its current exhibition ‘Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891-1910’, which opened last month. It’s an interesting show on several counts, principally because it offers the chance to view an art movement that failed to make much international impact but did, however, pave the way for the bold brilliance of Italian Futurism.
Despite being a loose-knit group of northern Italian painters, the Divisionists were united by one big idea: the treatment of light. This was inspired by the works of French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul...
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The Lower East Side, once home to immigrants and aspiring artists, is no receiving the uptown treatment.
The National Trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries.
The Fitzwilliam Museum is celebrating the centenary of the directorship of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell with an exhibition that makes clear that he was in many ways the first modern museum director.
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