Archive for October, 2007

Last Chance: Morgan Falconer On Chris Ofili At David Zwirner, New York

Chris Ofili’s extensive new show is his first for David Zwirner, and the first to unite his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and graphite drawing. That in itself makes it a landmark for the artist. Yet what really distinguishes the exhibition is what it demonstrates about how far he has come in terms of maturity and ambition. ofilichristmas0TINY.jpg

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Jean-pierre Chevassus-agnes Wins Your Studio Competition

The winner of the October Your Studio competition is Jean-Pierre Chevassus-Agnes. Ana Finel Honigman, the judge of this month's competition, comments, 'With sparse lines, muted colours and only...

The Month's Best Shows In Madrid

RICHARD BILLINGHAM, 'ZOO', to 8 Nov 2007. ANNIKA LARSSON, 22 Nov 2007 - 5 Jan 2008 La Fabrica Galería, T: +34 91 360 13 25. Billingham's homage to animal innocence...

The Narrative In Contemporary Indian Art At Kunstmuseum Bern

Sunil Gupta, 'Homelands', 2007 Unlike Western modernisms of the 20th century that rejected the narrative in favour of the self-reflective artwork, India has had a strong tradition of figurative,...

Richard Deacon And David Ward At Roche Court, Wiltshire

Richard Deacon, 'Orinoco', 2007 Unique Wood and Stainless Steel, Weighted Base 137 × 689 × 88 cm "There's a point where the liquid is moving too fast for there to be anything...

This Week's News Round-up

PRIZES AND AWARDS The shortlist for the second MaxMara Art Prize for Women was announced this week. Each MaxMara Art Prize enables an artist who has not yet had...

Simon Harper On Binary Oppositions, Citric Gallery, Brescia

Simon and Tom Bloor, 'We are just about to step out from our just-one-second-ago broken eggshell', 2007 Graphite on paper, 50 x 50cm Courtesy the artists & MOT International, London Photo:...

Morgan Falconer On Francis Alys At Dia At The Hispanic Society Of America, New York

Francis Huys, Fabiola, n.d. Photo: Francesca Esmay A museum that is empty on a wet Saturday afternoon in New York is, by definition, a strange and desperate place. But...

Jamie Isenstein At Hammer Museum, La

Jamie Isenstein. From 'Acephal magical', 2007, at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. A specially freaky circus sideshow comes to LA tonight, as part of Jamie Isenstein's project on artistic deceit,...

Barry Mcgee At Redcat, Los Angeles

Barry McGee, 'One More Thing' Installation view: Deitch Projects, New York, 2005. Courtesy Deitch Projects and the artist. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging Barry McGee has long sought to maintain a destabilized art...