Duo in tweed return to haunt streets of London; Gilbert & George opened their new show London Pictures last Thursday at White Cube Bermondsey (8 March), comprising 292 works based on 3712 newsagent poster slogans. Introducing the exhibition, George Passmore admitted to six years of tactically distracting newspaper vendors, while his accomplice Gilbert Proesch swiped the posters. Continue reading
If the world doesn’t end completely, as some people actually believe, there is a lot to live for next year. Let’s take a brief look at the art highlights of 2012…
Lucien Freud, Reflection with Two Children
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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Dog Tired (c.1916)
Every year, two minutes of silence fall on the commonwealth and beyond to mark the signing of the Armistice on the 11th November 1918. Continue reading
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What happened on Canoe Lake? Deathly undercurrents lie beneath the paintings of Canada’s vast wilderness… Continue reading
In 1669, art critic and Secretary to the French Academy André Félibien delivered a lecture on the hierarchy of genres; most highly revered were historical and mythological paintings, preferably large in size and crammed with figures in convoluted postures. Less fortunate, and descending in this order, were the portraits, the genre scenes and the landscapes; but the worst of the worst, the dregs of the dregs, the lowest of the low, were the still lifes. Dismissed as ‘low and basal’, Félibien considered the still life to be a mere observation of a world which is in itself fallen and imperfect. Continue reading
