Tights on Old Street

I went to a private view last night for a small exhibition just off Old Street. The four artists involved have been working on a collaborative sculpture and textile project for the past eighteen months, and this show marks the second of three temporary, planned pauses in their activity. This is the stock-take pause.
The [...]

Review: Portholes to the Secrets of the Universe

La Viande, 3 Charlotte Road, London EC2 3DH

17 – 27 October 2007
 
By the time I finish this review you won’t have much time left to see Portholes to the Secrets of the Universe. (It closes on 27th October 2007). That’s a shame, as the artists have put on a strong and difficult show that demands [...]

Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth

I haven’t seen the Doris Salcedo’s new work at the Tate Modern yet (I want to catch her associated show at the White Cube first), but Adrian Searle is one of the many who have, and his review on the Guardian Unlimited Blog is worth a look. Not so much for what he writes, [...]

Repetition and Repetition at The Approach

Peter Dreher and Stuart Cumberland both had solo exhibitions at The Approach this summer. Both were painting shows that focussed on variations among repeated instances of the same fairly straightforward representational image. The formal similarities pretty much stop there – the paintings themselves, and the projects they’re part of, are very different indeed – but [...]

Graham Hudson at Rokeby

My favourite bit of Sonic the Hedgehog on my megadrive was where you had to jump from platform to platform and if you got the timing wrong you’d be hit by one or both of these slowly rotating spiky balls or spiky flying insects. It turns out if you sellotape bin bags over rotary fans [...]