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Exhibition: ‘Art AIDS America’ at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Exhibition dates: 3rd October 2015 – 10th January 2016 This is the biggest exhibition on art relating to HIV/AIDS since the seminal exhibition Art in the Age of AIDS at the National Gallery of...
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Exhibitions: ‘Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008’ and...
Exhibition dates: 20th November 2015 – 13th March 2016 Curator of Coney Island exhibition: Dr Robin Jaffee Frank The first posting of 2016, and it is a doozy – a multimedia extravaganza of sight...
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Exhibition: ‘New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic,...
Exhibition dates: 4th October 2015 – 18th January 2016 If I had to nominate one period of art that is my favourite, it would be European avant-garde art between 1919 – 1939. The sense of renewed...
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
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Text: ‘The multiple singularities of photography’ / Exhibition: ‘Every...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The multiple singularities of photography Photograph, photographer, negative, print . I have never thought of photography as a “singularity” –...
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Exhibition: ‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World’ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 25th October 2015 Linbury Galleries A national treasure. An old soul. My favourite period of Hepworth’s is the 1940s-1950s, when she found her true voice as an artist....
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
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Exhibition: ‘Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel’ at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 5th September 2015 – 6th December 2015 Curator: Anna Tellgren Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) achieved more in five years of artistic creativity than many artists achieve in a...
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Exhibition: ‘Cosa Mentale: Art and Telepathy in the 20th century’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 28th October 2015 – 28th March 2016 Telepathic art in the 20th century. What a fascinating subject for a spiritual, phantasmagoric exhibition which explores artists’ fascination...
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Exhibitions: ‘Werner Bischof: Point of View’ and ‘Helvetica’ at the Musée de...
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 1st May 2016 Curators: Marco Bischof, Werner Bischof Estate, for the exhibition Point of View and Daniel Girardin, Musée de l’Elysée, for the exhibition Helvetica....
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Exhibition: ‘Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Photography in Japan...
Exhibition dates: 29th January – 8th May 2016 I absolutely love Japanese photography from this period. Subjective photographs with a gutsy pictorial language: rough, grainy, and blurred intimations...
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Exhibition: ‘Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind’ at SCA Galleries, Sydney...
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 7th May 2016 Taken as a whole, the artist Roger Ballen’s body of work is exceptionally strong. From his early documentary series Dorps (1986) and Platteland (1996)...
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Exhibition: ‘François Kollar. A Working Eye’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 9th February – 22nd May 2016 Curators: Matthieu Rivallin, collections officer, Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, and Pia Viewing, curator – researcher at the Jeu...
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Exhibition: ‘RealSurreal. Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography’ at Museum...
Exhibition dates: 1st April 2016 – 24th July 2016 I loved putting the Florence Henri and the skull together. Too exhausted after a long day at work to say much else! Marcus . Many thankx to Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘Brett Weston: Significant Details’ at Pasadena Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th April – 11th September 2016 Curator: Erin Aitali, PMCA Director of Exhibitions and Registrar If your subject is essentially unrecognizable – a defining characteristic of many...
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Exhibition: ‘Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th April – 14 August 2016 Curator: Geoffrey Batchen Part 2 of a posting on this wonderful exhibition – Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph – at the Govett-Brewster...
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Exhibition: ‘A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 25th March – 4th September 2016 Curator: Christine Macel Artists include: Pawel Althamer/ Maja Bajević / Yto Barrada / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Taysir Batniji / Christian Boltanski /...
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Exhibition: ‘Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous: Works from the...
Exhibition dates: 4th June – 11th September 2016 Curator: Keith Hartley Marcus Bunyan Self-portrait with gryphon and Miró (Head of a Catalan Peasant) tattoo, both by Alex Binnie, London 1998 I...
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Exhibition: ‘The Intimate World of Josef Sudek’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 7th June – 25th September 2016 A poetry of the everyday Josef Sudek, a one-armed man lugging around a large format camera, is one of my top ten photographers of all time. His...
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Exhibition: ‘Dream States: Contemporary Photographs and Video’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 16th May – 30th October 2016 The best fun I had with this posting was putting together the first twelve images. They seem to act as ‘strange attractors’, a feeling recognised by the...
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