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Image description: The Bay of Naples When you hear the word ‘landscape’ what do you picture? Green fields, tall mountains, unending forests, the open sea? How did these ideas form in your head? In fact, we are not born with them, and indeed many people born in places of incredible diversity will picture similar things […]
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Image description: Rene Magritte’s ‘Time Transfixed’, 1938 It was not by wandering the halls of a museum, nor by studying him in any art project, that I discovered Rene Magritte. Instead, it was through the superabundant parodies of his work, most notably based on ‘The Son of Man’. One simply has to search “son of man parody” […]
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Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted feature film. Under the direction of husband-and-wife duo Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, 125 artists worked for six years to produce this animated biographical film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent van Gogh, primarily in the unique and instantly-recognisable painting style of the artist himself. […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday night Modern Art Oxford (MAO) launched Test Run, which will be the first in an annual five week long programme of live events aimed at letting you see what goes on behind the scenes in an artist’s studio. Over 35 days the gallery will host 34 artists in 18 performances, 15 workshops, 6 […]
Continue ReadingAs the world continues to lurch from crisis to crisis in Lebanon, Ukraine, and Nigeria, one begins to wonder if traditional diplomacy is failing us. If diplomatic cables, high summits and the Security Council can’t solve the pressing issues of our day, what can? What can bring together a fractious world to the same table? […]
Continue ReadingGeorge Bellows. Anyone? No? Like many others I hadn’t a clue who George Bellows was. Maybe I am a philistine. Compared to the other giants currently doing the London circuit (Picasso, Lichtenstein… Bowie), Bellows has not had much attention over here. In comparison to other 20th century American artists – Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell […]
Continue ReadingThe latest creation of the contemporary Bristol artists Kleiner Shames and Patch Plummer, You Can’t Fall Off The Floor, showcases the duo’s stylish return to their home city. Here at the Old Fire Station, saturated colours clamour for our attention amid deft lines and bombastic signature sweeps. These graffiti artists are the latest to have […]
Continue ReadingThursday 2nd Week onwards In Reverse: Where the Future Meets the Past Students from the Royal College of Art present imagined histories of obscure objects at the Pitt Rivers. FREE Sunday 3d Week onwards Romance of Dereliction The OVADA gallery (near Park End, google it) brings together a series of works inspired by the […]
Continue ReadingStephen Willats’ Conscious – Unconcious and Archigram Beyond Architecture opens at Modern Art Oxford In a twin exhibition opening on Friday 27th April, Modern Art Oxford returned to old visions of the future. Archigram Beyond Architecture REMIX 2013 and Stephen Willats’ Conscious – Unconscious bring us art with a social conscience that doesn’t disappoint. Willats, who […]
Continue ReadingThe Ashomolean flaunts Hodgkin’s Indian Art collection
Continue ReadingClaire Davis on another dynamic exhibition in the difficult space of the O3 Gallery
Continue ReadingDiscussing the ‘art’ of delegation and the artist as manager
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