Same old same old, or is it? Art buzz was thick in the London air this year as early as Ai Wei Wei opened his first retrospective at the Royal Academy of Art - triumphantly (one might add). The UK official's i...

DIGITAL REVOLUTION: AN IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION OF ART, DESIGN, FILM, MUSIC AND VIDEOGAMES

2014.9.2　 Text: Mike Sullivan

For me a journey to the Barbican venue in London always immediately begins from Barbican tube station. From this point there is a long underground tunnel which leads to the main entrance, as the Barbican is on the out...

ART14 LONDON

2014.4.14　 Text: Jing C.Y. Chong

After the tremendous success of the first edition last year, this year Art14 London brought the art market and art lovers in London an alternative choice of art fair from the existing main fairs such as Freize and Lon...

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2013

2013.10.25　 Text: Mike Sullivan

In 2003 the London Design Festival took place for the first time and since then it has become one of the world’s most important design event. This year 304 exhibitions and events took place around London; this helps r...

A JOURNEY THROUGH LONDON SUBCULTURE 1980S TO NOW

2013.10.22　 Text: Fuyumi Saito

ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) Gallery has a special exhibition at The Old Selfridge Hotel, London. The exhibition explores the creative scenes of the 1980s that were born and developed in London, from the post-...

ALEXIS HUNTER & JO SPENCE

2013.9.10　 Text: Fuyumi Saito

A photo-exhibition by two women, Alexis Hunter and Jo Spence, is now held at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London. Richard Saltoun is a gallery which focuses on conceptual feminist art and performance. The gallery, this ...

DAVID BIELANDER “KOI FOR JOY”

2013.7.15　 Text: Mike Sullivan

David Bielander was born in Switzerland and lives in Munich, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. He is well known for using different materials and different processes for creating his work, in ...

LIGHT SHOW

2013.5.13　 Text: Mike Sullivan

In 1951 the Southbank Centre was created as part of the Festival of Britain, it is an arts centre located on the south bank of the Thames. It is Europe’s largest art centre with a wide variety of cultural events, thou...

HEATHERWICK STUDIO: DESIGNING THE EXTRAORDINARY

2012.9.21　 Text: Michael Sullivan

UK Pavilion, Seed Cathedral. Shanghai Expo, China, 2010 © Iwan Baan During the London Olympics 2012 there would have been one sight that everyone would have seen and which was very prominent in the Opening Ceremo...

CONTEMPORARY VISIONS

2012.9.13　 Text: Michael Sullivan

In 2008 in Canada a new company, Beers.Lambert Contemporary, was started with the desire to explore and diffuse relevant issues via the medium of progressive art. In 2010 they relocated to London and are currently bas...

A CELEBRATION: MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE

2012.8.30　 Text: Michael Sullivan

On a street called Cork Street in central London there is a window where you can see a very interesting sight, it is called ‘Dreamcatcher’ and it was created by Marilène Oliver. Made out of Laser-cut acrylic, fishing ...

EXHIBITION ROAD SHOW 2012

2012.8.6　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Exhibition road is well named for the unique crisscross pattern of the road itself and the giants of education, art and history which flank it. Along this road the Royal Geographical Society, Imperial College, the Goe...