London Diary
Thrilling and thoughtful work by an Angolan collective puts shows by Marc Quinn and Joseph Cornell in the shade
London Diary
Alexander McQueen’s exquisite tailoring; the Serpentine’s slightly shabby pavilion; Andy Warhol’s money-worship; and Kallos gallery’s exceptional ancient art
London Diary
Tate’s ‘Fighting History’ is a failure: if you want proper history, see Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Revolutionary work at Victoria Miro
London Diary
Michael Craig-Martin has brightened up the RA Summer Exhibition a bit, but Agnes Martin is truly unmissable at the Tate
London Diary
Hockney’s psychedelic new creations at Annely Juda; Thomas Struth’s exceptional photographs at Marian Goodman; and Andre Kertesz at James Hyman
London Diary: 3 May
Supersymmetry dazzles in the Vinyl Factory; Lawrence Lek empties the Royal Academy; and a horrible vision in Hammersmith
London Diary: 19 April
Ravilious is bonkers and brilliant in Dulwich; Space sparkles at Daniel Blau; and is ‘Woman in Gold’ so bad it’s good?
London Diary: 5 April
Tracey Emin’s bed, Isa Genzken’s money, NS Harsha’s space cows, and Roger Ackling’s ‘Simple Gifts’
London Diary: 22 March
Traces of the World Trade Centre in London; counterculturalism and Robert Fraser; and Hauser & Wirth’s space in Somerset
TEFAF Treasures
Personal favourites from Maastricht, including an ancient Egyptian fragment and an unfinished old master painting
London Diary: 8 March
Mary Moore vs the YBAs; this month’s most covetable exhibition catalogue; and Alex Katz’s trousers
London Diary: 22 February
Digby Warde-Aldam explores what London has to offer, from contemporary abstract painting to Sargent’s most disquieting portraits
Fig-2 at the ICA: a rehashed pop-up exhibition that somehow works
Fifty exhibitions in as many weeks; this revival of the ‘fig-1’ project from 15 years ago is a surprising success
Koen Vanmechelen on the art of cross-breeding chickens
The Crypt Gallery in St Pancras Church is overrun with cosmopolitan chickens. Is it art?
Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’
Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Saturday)
Frieze week takes it out of you alright, but there has been some seriously good stuff on show
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Friday)
When you’ve been to more than 40 shows in three days you start to feel a little…displaced
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Thursday)
PAD, the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and another clutch of gallery shows: this week is taking its toll
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Wednesday)
‘But it’s so BIG!’ I heard an angry American journalist exclaim. And she spoke the truth – Frieze is big
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Tuesday)
You know you’re beaten when you come within inches of mistaking a Justin Adian painting for a coat hanger
Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary
So here we are: Frieze week is finally upon us. I will be attending as many events as humanly possible
Wp Wp Wp: Fiona Banner at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Fiona Banner’s extraordinary indoor Chinook will make you want duck and run
Review: ‘Jim Dine: A History of Communism’ at Alan Cristea Gallery
Dine turns Soviet-era lithographic stones into contemporary art
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