Mariko Sakaguchi – One Hundred Views of Bathing
A relaxing, hot bath can be a nice way to unwind after a hard days work, but Japanese photographer Mariko Sakaguchi’s take on this calming moment, could be argued, takes the relaxed element out of it with her new set of photographs titled One Hundred Views of Bathing.
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Andrew Tanner Design – Augmented Reality Plate
Andrew Tanner Design, Jason Jameson and James Hall from the animation studio Unanico Group, combined to create ‘English Hedgerow’, a project that aimed to bring porcelain to life with augmented reality, and a little help from Royal Winton Bone China.
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Markus Reugels Making A Splash With Setup Liquid Art
Markus Reugels’ latest project, Setup Liquid Art shows that water isn’t simply for drinking or washing. Reugels’ painstaking creative process, sees tiny droplets transform into images that could have come from outer space.
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Art Attack: David Hockney vs. Damien Hirst
Two of Britain’s most celebrated artists are locking horns in a war of words as they prepare to launch large-scale retrospective exhibitions in London this year.
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Brand Memory Game
Playing the brand game. Brands manage to worm their way into our subconscious without even noticing, the power of a logo is the reason advertising geniuses get paid so much.
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Music To Our Ears
These days if someone talks about getting the latest album or single by their favourite artist, it’s more than likely to come via the tapping of our fingertips on keyboards as it’s downloaded straight to our computer. This shouldn’t mean that we forget the physical creation and beauty of record sleeves that still lives on [...]
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Money For Nothing
Some of today’s finest writers and artists design their own currencies and banknotes for today’s changing world… the results are an interesting insight into the arts world’s view of money.
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Batman Forever
Comic book veteran Jerry Robinson has sadly died at the age of 89. He was the man that gave us everyone’s favourite Batman-baiting nutter The Joker and helping hatch Batman’s young sidekick Robin.
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Here Comes The Neighbourhood
Here Comes The Neighbourhood is a short-form docuseries that explores the power of public art and innovation to uplift and revitalise urban communities.
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Wee rivals the Wii
The trend at the moment in creating interactive video gaming is all about the user controlled experience. Banishing the old school joystick is now set to reach new levels as The Exhibit Bar in Balham.
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Pakpoom Silaphan is busy remastering the Masters
Gilbert & George on coke? Don’t worry, nothing to be alarmed about. London’s Scream gallery is housing Thai-born artist Pakpoom Silaphan’s second solo exhibition of street-inspired work until January
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Close Encounters of the Artists Mind
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s French artist Jacques Rival’s 9 metre high Identified Flying Object (IFO) birdcage creation that’s going to take pride of place over the Kings Cross skyline.
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Dining With a Difference
The Disappearing Dining Club threw another of their Dinner Dances this weekend. The theme this time being a ‘Compendium of Game’, the event was at Red Gallery in Shoreditch.
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Photomonth, well not quite a month
East London’s Photomonth aim is to be the most inclusive international photography festival, now in its 10th year, the festival’s goal is to enlist as many outlets as possible to display contemporary photography and ensure that everyone can be involved. More than 100 galleries, cafes, shops and studios alike will be exhibiting the work of [...]
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Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography
The V&A’s Collection is uprooting from London and making its way north to Wolverhampton for the first time to the Light House Gallery, where the ‘Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography’ will be on show until 13 January. Showcasing how fashion photography has evolved and emerged over the years, in parallel with the [...]
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Experience New Sensations
The exhibition will feature over 50 artists spanning a range of mediums such as painting, sculpture, video, photography and installation. We were lucky enough to have a preview of the show last night which opens today until 17 October in Bloomsbury Square, London.
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Captain America gets Super Branded
Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel’s 1901 Wine Bar is currently hosting the ‘Super Brand’ exhibition, which is to run throughout Frieze Art Fair, later this month.
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Nightfall Rainbows
Beams of flashing colours bounce from window to window and wall to wall as Ipswich’s waterfront warehouses are brought back to life with splashings of Pantone colours.
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Take It Lying Down
Gone are the days of hard seats and bruised derrières when you’re admiring a work of art with the latest arrival at London’s V&A. As part of London Design Festival 2011, French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have laid down a bed-come-seat of fabric – Textile Field – for art lovers to sit or lay [...]
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Why did the armadillo cross the road?
An armadillo, a road, a car, an accident. What’s next in this series of words? I bet you didn’t think it would be ‘diamond’, did you? Well that is what Ohio-based artist Shane Mecklenburger had planned for our four-legged friend as he tragically met his death. Manufacturing a diamond from the ashes, this creature is [...]
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