Exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery Radical Nature–Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 19 Jun–18 Oct/09 Tickets: £8/£6 concs £6 online Times: Open daily 11am-8pm except Wed 11am-6pm Open until 10pm every Thu Barbican Centre Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects [...]
The Culture Show Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2009 Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Piccadilly London W1J 0BD 8 June—16 August 2009 Now in its 241st year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2009 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, [...]
Paul Fryer lives and works in London, England. He studied art briefly at the Leeds College Of Art in the 1980s but never did a degree in the subject, electing instead to be an electropop singer, and then to graduate as a transvestite DJ. In the early 90′s he was instrumental in the creation of [...]
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £25,000, the exhibition has proved to be the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists. This year had a record entry of over 1,900 [...]
Raven Row is a new gallery space in Spitalfields, east London, renovated and designed by the 6a architecture firm from two adjoining houses built for Hughenot silk merchants. Ravaged by fire in the 1950s and again in the 70s, they stood empty for a decade until Raven Row moved in. The current exhibition is work [...]
