Archive for November, 2007

Editor’s Pick Of Books For Christmas

Among the most interesting books out this autumn – Taryn Simon’s extraordinary ‘inventory’ of hidden America, a look at the state of sculpture in the 21st century, a monograph on Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gordon McHarg’s hymn to ‘HIM’ – aka Charles Saatchi, a history of the photographic portrait, and one of the best books to be published about Chinese contemporary art.

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Nelson Mcleod Wins Your Studio November Competition

Nelson McLeod's winning work Nelson McLeod NOVEMBER 2007 WINNER SELECTED BY EMMA GRAY The winner of the November Your Studio competition is Nelson McLeod whose 'hysterical characters', Emma Gray comments, 'are...

Editor's Pick Of Books For Christmas

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century Phaidon, hardback, £39.95 For its first exhibition in its inaugural space in the Bowery, which opens on 1 December, the ...

Ulrich Hensel At Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich

Ulrich Hensel. Ulrich Hensel's running series of pictures of building sites entice the viewer with their verisimilitude - in theory, they're about as familiar, ordinary a sight as one...

Last Chance: Nikki S Lee At Gak Aktuelle Kunst E.v. Bremen

The Hip Hop Project (1), 2001, c-print on aluminium Courtesy: Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York Nikki S. Lee is a chameleon, constantly reinventing herself so that she could...

Preview: Bill Roberts On Tom Mcgrath At Zach Feuer, New York

'TBT (pink)', 2007 Oil on canvas, 50 x 72 inches 'TBT (yellow and black)', 2007 Oil on canvas, 56 x 96 inches Tom McGrath is a young New York-based painter who has...

Scott Hunt In Conversation With Ana Finel Honigman

Scott Hunt, 'And Red All Over' David Lynch has famously declared that, "I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the...

Anders Krisar At Union Teesdale Street, London

Anders Krisar. 'Chord 1'. Enacting a kind of artistic rebirth, the young Swedish artist's new show at Union (on Teesdale Street, E2) sees him expanding his interest in human psychology...

Live: Pawel Althamer And Jude Law At Borough Market, London, Friday 30 November

At London's Borough Market on Friday 30 November at 11.30am you could find yourself queuing for vegetables behind actor Jude Law. Law will be at the food market...

This Week's News Round-up

THEATRE DIRECTOR TO OPEN NEW GALLERY IN NEW YORK Four months ago, according to New York magazine, avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson was evicted from the Vestry Street loft...