Visions of the Orient: A Fresh Look at 19th-Century Orientalism in London

In his latest exhibition, Many Worlds, One Mind, the London-based multimedia artist uses pixel-sorting algorithms and financial data to unmask the fragile scaffolding of global capitalism. The digital screen and the oil canvas have more in common than we think. Both are windows into engineered realities, and both have served as status symbols for the […]

This autumn, the rugged landscape of  Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust, Dorset, becomes the stage for a major exhibition and symposium bringing together 25 members of the Royal Society of Sculptors in collaboration with the Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust (PSQT). One Island – Many Visions unfolds across Drill Hall Gallery and the vast Tout […]

‘AROE: From Then On’ – A Retrospective at Helm Gallery Celebrates the Legacy of a Graffiti Icon Helm Gallery is set to host a unique and emotional exhibition, ‘From Then On,’ marking the first visual retrospective of AROE, one of the UK’s most celebrated graffiti artists. Running from January 31 to March 2, 2025, this […]

What Is It Like? – A Groundbreaking Exhibition at arebyte Gallery Dates: February 27 – May 4, 2025Press Preview: Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 5:30 pmOpening Evening: Thursday, February 27, 6:30 – 9 pmLocation: arebyte Gallery, Java House, 7 Botanic Square, London City Island, E14 0LG Curated by Helen Starr, What Is It Like? is […]

Teaspoon Projects Presents Inaugural Exhibition: A Thousand-Pointed Star at 67 York Street GalleryExhibition Dates: 12 – 18 February 2025 | Private View: 11 February 202567A York Street, London W1H 1QB Teaspoon Projects is launching its inaugural exhibition, A Thousand-Pointed Star, at 67 York Street Gallery, exploring the fragmented and multifaceted nature of modern identity. Inspired […]

Curated by Guerin Projects, Life Lines, a major new exhibition by multidisciplinary British artist LUAP (Paul Robinson), opens on 6 December 2024 at The Bottle Factory in London. This show marks a significant shift in LUAP’s practice, presenting a new body of work that explores the human psyche through large-scale abstracted portraits and a series […]

Community art project rooted in heritage and environment, culminating in an immersive contemporary art exhibition plus events in the iconic Zig Zag building, Glastonbury for Somerset Art Weeks Festival (21 September – 6 October).  As Old as the Hills, curated by artists Fiona Campbell and Jan Ollis, looks at the ancient layered history of Mendip […]

Meeting Point Projects is pleased to present Dwelling, a group exhibition that explores how the construction of space is inherently linked with the concept of ‘dwelling’. Running 16 September – 4 October 2024, Dwelling takes place 67 York Street Gallery in Marylebone and marks the second exhibition for Meeting Point Projects, following its inaugural show […]

The University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) has announced the unveiling of a major new public artwork by British artist LUAP (Paul Robinson) as part of a landmark collaboration. A four-metre tall, walk-in installation fabricated using recycled plastics, The Pink Bear Pavilion is LUAP’s largest sculpture to date and pays homage to the London-based […]

The Art Studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme is pleased to present a solo exhibition of celebrated Stoke-on-Trent artist Arthur Berry. This exquisitely curated survey of work comprises twenty large scale paintings, spanning The Potteries’ artist’s later years from the 1970s until his death in 1994, and features portraits, figurative works, urban landscapes and still lifes. Arthur Berry […]

Phosphene, an exciting exhibition of new works by New York-based Cuban artist José Parlá will take place at Ben Brown Fine Arts’ flagship London gallery from 11 October to 17 November 2023 coinciding with Frieze London.  This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition in the Mayfair space, following his highly acclaimed Echo of Impressions show in 2018. Phosphene forms the […]

Ben Brown Fine Arts will present Cosmic Drill, their third solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Awol Erizku. The exhibition, which runs from 27 January – 6 April 2023, follows his highly acclaimed shows with Ben Brown Fine Arts, 慢慢燃燒 Slow Burn (Hong Kong, 2018) and Make America Great Again (London, 2017). This exhibition will […]

Born in Dorset UK in 1940, Artist Michael Simpson is known for the practice of working with a restricted palette and his use of a distinctive, artistic vocabulary. Recurring motifs such as benches, squints and confessionals are explored in his ongoing series of works. While Simpson’s apparent subject explores the infamy of religious history and […]

London-based Persian artist Maryam Eisler Maryam Eisler solo exhibition ‘If Only These Walls Could Talk’ is currently showing at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 27 Cork Street. This new body of work from Eisler, was shot at the fabled Hôtel Nord-Pinus in Arles, France. The Exhibition runs from 2-24 November 2022. The work was photographed at […]

The Andipa gallery in London, will present The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, an exhibition by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan. It opens 12 October 2022. MacGowan’s work, which has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a ‘demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy’, will be represented by twenty small-scale drawings mostly […]

“Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital” will open at the Foundling Museum tomorrow 30 September 2022, running to 19 February 2023. Discover a richer history of London life in the eighteenth century, through newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the Foundling Hospital.“Tiny Traces: African & […]

Johnny Depp is not only an amazing actor, he also is an impressive painter. There is no end to this man’s talent. The 59-year-old actor earned over £3 million after releasing 780 prints through the Castle Fine Art gallery in London. The unique artwork sold out within hours. His first formal exhibition, “Friends & Heroes” collection, […]

Curated by Averil Curci  “Transformation |Liberation” is part of Wembley Park’s free outdoor art trail Figures of Change, celebrating the first day of Spring and the importance of nature which launched on International Women’s Day 8th March 2022.  The public art trail features a variety of colour-soaked artworks on an exciting array of urban canvases, from large scale murals, light installations and […]

24 March 2022 saw the launch of Love Infinity on MUBI, the first art film of its genre, created in London by Oscar and BAFTA Winner and Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tim Yip. Tim Yip (b. 1967, Hong Kong) is a world-renowned multidisciplinary artist and creator, and winner of the BAFTA and Academy awards for his […]

Big Village – Digital, is a project that builds a manifesto for action to support the development of global majority performance makers. As part of the UK/Australia 2021-22 season with British Council Australia, Upswing launched Big Village – Digital, a series of short films and online conversations from global majority circus artists in the UK […]

Tuesday 1 March, 10:30am – 12pm The Dance of Art, the Dance of Life Dance is the original form of artistic expression. It has only one instrument—the body—but it creates movement, lines, forms, and rhythm. It connects us to the earth, the sky, the cosmos, Nature. By calling on the ritual of dance to generate […]

LINLEY is proud to present a solo exhibition by London based artist, Maryam Eisler. Opening November 4th, 2021, this new series represents a voyage into the past, propitiously centred on the present. Images captured in the early-winter light at Leighton House – the iconic Victorian Kensington home of Orientalist Lord Leighton – and inspired by […]

Created by Australian artists Projection Teknik and presented by London Borough of Wandsworth and London Borough of Lambeth, the installation will be a daisy-chain of high-density light beams illuminating the two new stations and painting the route of the tunnels in the sky. Buildings along the route will be lit up with projections and accompanied […]

Philip Colbert launches Lobsteropolis City and the Lobster Land Museum in Decentraland, curated by Simon de Pury This June 30th, British contemporary artist Philip Colbert reveals LOBSTEROPOLIS CITY, his first fully digital exhibition, opening within the ‘metaverse’ of Decentraland – seeing the artist’s lobster universe evolve into its latest iteration. This marks the most ambitious […]

The solo exhibition at Almine Rech London of American artist Larry Poons, on view until 31 July, 2021. For over half a century, Larry Poons has been identified as heir to the heroic era of American painting, following in the footsteps of such greats as Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko. In 1969, aged 32, Poons […]

Zeffman conducts academy of St. Martin in the fields with violinist Viktoria Mullova – in the V&A’S newly restored Raphael Court. Oliver Zeffman presents Live at the V&A commissioned by Marquee TV released by Platoon. Live at the V&A was recorded in the V&A’s newly refurbished Raphael Court, with the Academy of St Martin in […]

At 11am on New Year’s Day, thousands of payphones across the UK will ring simultaneously in a large-scale audio artwork. Pick Me Up (& hold me tight) is a national project aiming to make every phone box in the UK ring at the same time: 11am on New Year’s Day.  Passersby or anyone who picks […]

Classic portraits by some of the world’s greatest photographers Thursday 3 December 2020 – 28 February 2021 Iconic Images Gallery, 13A Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0AJ To celebrate the end of lockdown, Iconic Images Gallery is excited to announce the launch of its new exhibition “BLOW-UP”. Come stand face to face with some of […]

‘Every Day is a Miracle’ is the tagline of Art Below’s first gallery exhibition since January and the Covid Lockdown which saw every gallery and theatre close in the UK and across the world. Opening Friday 17 July at Ad Lib Gallery, it runs until the 26th of July following months of isolation and global […]

A new public art project, Breath is Invisible, launches today, Tuesday 7 July 2020 in Notting Hill with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24. Saye’s is the first of three site-specific exhibitions that comprise the […]

Over the last week, we have seen major museums, art fairs and galleries around the world close their doors to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. We are beginning to see fantastic initiatives by these museums, art fairs and galleries, in utilising the internet to keep culture moving and audiences connected.  And on Friday night, British […]

An all-female line-up of four leading contemporary choreographers explore movement in the context of gender and sensuality over three evenings. This festival of Korean Dance returns to The Place with a programme that comprises of four women choreographers at the cutting edge of Korean dance culture. It runs from the 29 May to 5 June […]

The world’s largest touring exhibition of Banksy artworks opening 23rd April 2020 in South Kensington. A touring exhibition featuring works by painter, graffiti  artist and social activist, Banksy is set to open in London. The Art of Banksy is an acclaimed showcase featuring 80 original and authenticated works associated with, arguably, the most intriguing and talked-about artist […]

Moss Carroll, Calon Ddaear, exhibited as part of Wales Contemporary 2019, winner of the Young Artist Prize

Winners were announced for A Day in Your Life competition, which was part of Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend. The winners were announced at a special prize-giving at Saatchi Gallery during the launch of Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend. The competition was introduced as part of the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend to encourage and nurture the photographic […]

To mark Valentine’s Day, letters between WB Yeats and lifelong friend Olivia Shakespear have gone on display at the National Library of Ireland. The selection of newly acquired letters between WB Yeats and his first lover and close friend, the English writer Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938), were put on display on the 14th of February, at […]

Hosted by the Heritage Council, the National Heritage Week Awards highlighted Ireland’s ‘heritage heroes’, and showcased the most engaging and innovative National Heritage Week events. Close to 700 nominations were received across five categories in 2018. The Awards ceremony marks close of European Year of Cultural Heritage. National Heritage Week is part of European Heritage […]

A major conference ‘Bauhaus Effects‘, will take place in Dublin marking the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus is recognised as the twentieth century’s most influential school of art and design. The Conference will mark the 100-year anniversary of the influential Bauhaus school Developed in collaboration between the National College of Art and Design Dublin (NCAD), University […]

Following on from the ‘Save the World’ campaign launched earlier this year, Cybersecurity giant, Kaspersky Lab has revealed its first race-ready GT art car design by British street artist D*Face for Team Italy. Kaspersky Lab has teamed up with renowned British street artist D*Face to create the ‘Save the World’ Ferrari race car in the company’s ongoing […]

‘Markievicz: Portraits & Propaganda’ aims to broaden understanding of a familiar yet mysterious figure in a new exhibition, that opens Saturday 27th October 2018 at the National Gallery of Ireland. In the year of the woman, the National Art Gallery of Ireland pays tribute to Constance Markievicz, an Artist, an aristocrat, prisoner and parliamentarian, suffragette and soldier. These […]

Now in its third year, 2018 DARE Festival at Shoreditch Townhall runs from Thursday 25 until Saturday 27 October 2018, for three fun-packed days of performance, art installations and conversation. DARE Festival brings together artists and audiences from across London and beyond in an explosion of new and in-development work. This year’s festival explores the theme of power through […]

Nelson Mandela, was a lawyer, a revolutionary, a political prisoner, a world leader, an elder statesman and the first black president of South Africa. For the past 50 years and 5 years since his death, he is still viewed as an icon – a symbol of the struggle against oppression to so many people across […]

This year’s Zurich Portrait Prize shortlist sees artists challenging the traditional understandings of portraiture. 25 artists from various multi-disciplinary backgrounds were shortlisted for the final stage in the competition. The aim of the Zurich Portrait Prize is to foster an interest in contemporary portraiture amongst artists and art lovers alike while adding to the National Portrait Collection […]

For one day only it will be at East London’s Old Spitalfields Market, coinciding with Frieze Art Fair. It’s a free event. Cultural Traffic a roving, global, anti-elitist multi-discipline arts and book fair comes to London for one day only. Founded in 2016 by the London-based editor, designer and collector Toby Mott, it has grown from its […]

Global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky Lab, an ardent supporter of the arts and motorsport, presents its own unique take on the art car concept, made famous in the 1970s. Kaspersky Lab and the UK’s most prolific street artist, D*Face (real name Dean Stockton), has unveiled the first-ever Formula E art car, in East London. The result is […]

What power does the Turner prize possess? Does the Turner Prize have a duty to present truth? These are two of the questions asked on the wall as you enter the exhibition. There have been some scathing reviews by some media sources of this year’s Turner prize shortlist. “Where are the pretty paintings?” Why is it […]

Dublin’s newest museum, 14 Henrietta Street was officially opened by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Nial Ring and Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan TD  on Friday, 14th September 2018  Set in a Georgian townhouse in the north inner city, 14 Henrietta Street tells the story of the building’s shifting fortunes, from the splendour of its Georgian origins in the 1740s, to a […]

Guy Slater’s Eastern Star tells the story of the relationship of a human rights lawyer U Nay Min and a BBC world journalist Christopher Gunness during the 1988 uprising in Burma now Myanmar. It is set in the present and begins with Christopher waking his husband Jake (played by Patrick Pearson) with a nightmare he […]

Tara Theatre in London has dedicated a three-week run of Eastern Star, a play about freedom of expression in Myanmar to the two Reuters journalists, U Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, given seven-year prison sentences in Yangon, for ‘violating a state secrets act’. The news comes shortly after the 30th anniversary of the 1988 student uprising against […]

Monty Python star Michael Palin and Pulitzer-prize winner Anne Applebaum to be headline speakers at Dublin Festival of History which takes place 24th September to 7th October .

The National Library of Ireland has announced receipt of the archive of award-winning Irish screenwriter, director and producer, Neil Jordan. Born in Sligo in 1950, Neil Jordan has achieved international critical acclaim for his writing and directing; his films include Michael Collins(1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). In 1992, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay […]

On 29th of January, the Irish Heritage Council launched its programme for European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 According to a Eurobarometer survey, Irish people have a stronger sense of pride in their local heritage sites and are more likely to engage in a traditional activity – such as playing music or dancing – compared with […]

The second wave of the highly successful culture in the community initiative was launched by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ardmhéara Micheál Mac Donncha at City Hall on 23rd of October. The aim of Dublin’s Culture Connects is to connect Dubliners to their city by working collaboratively with artists and the National Cultural Institutions on cultural […]

Lord Mayor of Dublin / Ardmhéara Micheál Mac Donncha will launch the second wave of Dublin’s Culture Connects: The National Neighbourhood at 5.45pm on Monday, 23rd October 2017 at City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2. Dublin’s Culture Connects aims to connect Dubliners to their city by working collaboratively with artists and the National Cultural Institutions on cultural projects that reflect the concerns and ambitions […]

As a highlight of Hull UK city of culture 2017, this year’s Turner prize will be presented at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. The Turner Prize, UK’s most prestigious art award, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a visual artist. The winner of the Turner Prize will receive […]

“Public invited to engage with the work of Irish researchers at Boston College on Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green” Culture Night takes place nationwide on Friday, 22nd September, from 5pm to 10pm. Culture night began in Dublin in 2005 and has now spread across the country of Ireland. Each year, for one day in September, Ireland sees […]

DUBLIN’S CULTURE CONNECTS & BUSINESS TO ARTS OFFER COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD FUNDRAISING EXPERTISE Dublin City Council’s Dublin’s Culture Connects and Business to Arts are calling on community or small cultural organisations across the city who are interested in building their fundraising capacity to apply for a 12-month training and mentoring programme. Interested groups can apply […]

Dublin’s Culture Connect: EU Lab funding success will see Dublin City Council join with five EU partners to develop Visual Thinking Strategies.

After decades of self-imposed isolation by a military-dominated regime, Myanmar/ Burma (a former British colony from 1824 to 1948) finally opened up in 2010. Marie-Pierre Mol, (co-founder, Intersections gallery) has been visiting the country regularly since it opened. Her main objective has been to raise international awareness about Myanmar contemporary art culture “which is still […]

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Kicking off a season of events based around Syria: a conflict explored, the Imperial War Museum, London hosted a pop-up Café: Conversations about Syria. There was an opportunity for anyone to come along and ask questions and find out first hand what daily life is like now in this war-torn country. We spoke to Syrian […]

Quicksand (2017) Video still © Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen We are living in very tense times. Europe is in accelerated decline, with the uncertainty of the potential departure of Britain from the EU, populist politicians and far-right movements across Europe. This is further exacerbated by the unprecedented refugee waves around the European borders. Danish Artist […]

Frieze Projects 2016 presented a one-day series of conversations at the Goethe Institut in London. The focus of the conversations was on how cultural differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed through the arts in zones of war and conflict. A group of new and old artists working in areas of conflict were joined on […]

  LATA STREET CULTURE FESTIVAL Returns for its second edition at the Red Gallery RED GALLERY, 1-3 RIVINGTON STREET, LONDON EC2A 3DT 29th JUNE – 2ND JULY 2016 FIVE BRAZILIAN STREET ARTISTS TAKE OVER THE RED GALLERY FOR FOUR DAYS IN JUNE LATA Street Culture Festival – celebrating street culture through art, music and film […]

Rebecca Beinart, Magz Hall, Keith Harrison, David Rickard and David Turley will each receive a £2,000 research and development fee with which to expand on the concept of their proposals, test feasibility and explore potential sites within England’s Public Forest Estate. Above Photo (2015) © Keith Harrison Each artist will benefit from a six-month research […]

Ex parte – What are experiences of those who have travelled from their homeland to another, and can examine at once, the perspectives of both, and the connections, confluences and conflicts between the two? Where are the points and modes of negotiation, and constructed specificities? EX – marks the activating co-ordinates. In the year of […]

PRESS RELEASE – Three Greek women Artistes at the International Symposium of painting in Romania, organized by Tudor Musatescu House of Culture based Campulung Muscel, in collaboration with the Arts Symposium I. D. Negulici and the Club ALZIAR.

I thought, like many people, that they were merely a bunch of crazy artists