November 2012

The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts

  by Lucy Lopez

  The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts works with disadvantaged children nationwide, believing in the importance of an early arts education for all, regardless of social and economical barriers. The foundation uses the arts to help children with personal …

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FAD Presents: If Only You could See What I’ve Seen, With Your Eyes

  by Rachel Fox

Returning to The Other Art Fair for a second year FAD presents its two day performance event If Only You could See What I’ve Seen, With Your Eyes. The title, taken from an exchange in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, where a replica meets …

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Artwork of the week: Summertime: Number 9A

  by Jacopo Nuvolari

Last week Tate Modern launched a major group show – A Bigger Splash – gathering together 40 of the most influential artists of the Twentieth century, including the likes of David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman, and Niki de Saint …

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Aspen Magazine: 1965-1971

  by Alexander Hawkins

The Whitechapel Gallery is currently exhibiting an intimate retrospective of cult 1960s multi-media magazine, Aspen. Spearheaded by Phyllis Johnson, Aspen was issued in a box, with the creative direction of each issue shouldered by a different editor and designer. Consequently, every box’s …

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La Scatola Review: Geoff Diego Litherland

  by Rachel Fox

Painter Geoff Diego Litherland has been busy recently. Not only is he currently showing his largest painting to date here at La Scatola, but also he is involved with three different shows across the capital. In order to accommodate such …

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Start Collecting!

  by Alexander Hawkins

If you think buying art is reserved for the elite, it doesn’t have to be. It’s true that amidst the upper echelons of the art world huge sums are casually exchanged, and a monochrome palette of pristine white spaces and …

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Heiner Goebbels: Stifter’s Dinge returns to Ambika P3

  by Lucy Lopez

Five pianos hang stripped and bared above steaming pools of water. Mist settles over a ghostly scene, a living, breathing subterranean world. As the light changes and darkens, the pianos wake. Water drips and machines tick before, suddenly, the pianos …

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