BRIGHTON, UK — In an age of cuddly brands that want to be your friend, these products offer a chance to connect with real people, and the overall look echoes bustling market stalls rather than distant marketing brainstorms.
Mark Sheerin
Mark Sheerin is an art writer from the UK. He also contributes to Culture24 and Frame & Reference, together with his own blog Criticismism. In 2012 he appeared in Nature, a volume in the series Documents of Contemporary Art from Whitechapel/MIT.
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The Vibrant Art that Emerged from Socialist Yugoslavia
NOTTINGHAM, UK — Between the early 1960s and mid-1980s, the country once known as Yugoslavia was an anomaly: a socialist state which allowed free travel to the West and promoted “self-management” rather than bureaucratic repression; a dictatorship which promoted decentralization and free expression.
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The Dark Truth at the Heart of an ‘Alien Sex Club’
BRIGHTON, UK — To call his work colorful, flamboyant, or camp would be to give the wrong impression of John Walter.
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Journeying Through Landscapes Without Memory
BRIGHTON, UK — Shona Illingworth demonstrates truths about the way we remember — and, more crucially, the way we forget.
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On Drawing with Vapor and Painting with Glass
LONDON — To note that Larry Bell was a player in the California-based movement Light and Space does not prepare you for his latest show in London.
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A Chapman Brother on Making Us Laugh at Human Atrocity
OSLO, Norway — What might for some artists constitute a proud moment, appears to be something of a jape for the Chapman brothers.
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Theaster Gates Meditates on Construction in a White Cube
LONDON — Theaster Gates’s latest show at White Cube is, surprisingly, largely limited to paintings and sculptures.
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An Artist’s Installations Coax Memories Out of Historic Spaces
BRIGHTON, UK — Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2015, a contemporary visual arts festival, have put up their headline artist in a hotel notable for its design and feng shui.
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365 Poetic Remembrances of the French Revolutionary Calendar
LONDON — The Scottish, London-based artist Ruth Ewan is being perfectly reasonable and polite when she says of the British monarchy: “It’s going to have to go at some point. Whether it’s through social struggle, or a natural event, they’re not going to be around forever.”
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From 18th-Century Tool Chest to 21st-Century Public Art Project
ROCHESTER, UK — Thanks to an association with Charles Dickens, North Kent is better known for literature than for contemporary art. But a new project by Adam Chodzko connects the two.
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A Portable Museum Makes Art on the Go
LONDON — Dr. Brad Butler, radical filmmaker, contemporary artist, and international traveller, is bantering with the down-to-earth staff of a bustling London café.
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A Gallery Looks Back on 40 Years of Showing Art in Brazil
Global recessions and armed crackdowns on protests are undoubtedly bad for art, but the old adage that hardship and suffering fuels creativity comes to mind when looking back at Brazil in the 1970s and considering the improbable success of Galeria Luisa Strina.
