Entries from Londonist tagged with 'henrymoore'
October 14, 2008
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's TH.2058, the latest in the gallery's Unilever series, imagines London fifty years hence, where the "incessant rain" has refugees from the weather hiding in the Turbine Hall. The space has been filled with metal bunk-beds to accomodate the precipitation-shy, on which they can lounge and read the dystopian fiction de nos jours - Borges, Ballard, Philip K. Dick, the novels of your common or garden brooding philosophy student, are sitting on each bunk.......
Continue Reading "In Pictures: TH.2058 At Tate Modern"March 18, 2008
Yes, this is one of those "last chance to see" posts. This time, (you'll just have to imagine the drum roll) it's the Henry Moore exhibition in Kew. But it really does warrant the attention. You are not going to see such a fine range of Henry Moore work in the flesh in such beautiful surroundings for a long time. Well not without doing lots of intercontinental travelling. Don't believe us? Check out fellow......
Continue Reading "Gimme Moore, Moore, Moore at Kew - Last Chance!"March 12, 2008
Interesting concept this. What would Martian anthropologists make of us Earth-dwellers if all they had to go on were examples of contemporary art? The Barbican Art Gallery, disguised as a museum on the red planet, plays out this indulgence in a new exhibition. Those crafty aliens have bagged some prize exhibits. Warhol, Hepworth, Hirst - and a Henry Moore maquette, covered in molluscs for some reason. Dozens of cultural relics are scattered around in......
Continue Reading "The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art"March 1, 2008
This is the final month of the Moore at Kew exhibition, the kind of attraction that "Don't Miss" columns were invented for. 28 monumental sculptors by Henry Moore are scattered throughout the grounds. Our very own Tiki Chris has recorded them in this video, with soundtrack by the pandas.......
Continue Reading "Londonvidium:#4 Moore at Kew"February 3, 2008
This is what we have learned this weekend while you were out looking for snow… Brent Council are gonna get tough on non-recyclers. Fake voddy hits the home counties. Our Kate is battling to save Stepney’s George Tavern. Morrissey fans will have to wait a little longer. In court this weekend: people smugglers, a very greedy drugs baron, and prolific pickpocketers. Londonist reckons that they were all in it together. And this is what......
Continue Reading "Weekend Round-Up"May 23, 2007
British sculpture has a lot to thank the Royal College of Art for - its students include celebrated sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Richard Wentworth and Jake Chapman. So, Londonist was pleased to notice that the college's sculpture show by this year's graduating students has just opened. The centrepiece of the exhibition, by artist Jodie Carey, no doubt appearing in a Daily Mail diatribe soon, is a nine-foot wedding cake comprised of......
Continue Reading "The Art Of Bones"January 26, 2006
As regular readers will have guessed by now, Londonist is a big fan of public sculpture. So we’re seething at the theft of a second famous bronze from the London area. You may remember back in December that a group of light-fingered but strong-armed crooks half-inched a £3 million Henry Moore from a Hertfordshire Park. Well, it’s happened again. Part of Lynn Chadwick’s ‘The Watchers’ (1963) has vanished from the grounds of Roehampton University,......
Continue Reading "(Another) One Of Our Sculptures Is Missing"January 26, 2006
All the works featured in this stalk are also mapped on Platial. US-born Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) is a colossal figure in 20th Century sculpture. Controversial could almost be his middle name. His various works around London caused outrage in their day, but are now in danger of being forgotten. Perhaps his most powerful work on show in the capital is ‘Jacob and the Angel’ underneath the central dome of Tate Britain. Being indoors, this......
Continue Reading "Londonist Stalks…Jacob Epstein"January 20, 2006
The eighteenth annual London Art Fair is on at the Business Design Centre in Islington today and this weekend, showcasing some of the best of Modern British and Contemporary Art. Ninety eight galleries are taking part this year’s fair - the place oozes art. When Londonist had a sneak preview this week, they were still putting the finishing touches to the displays and we half expected to see an artist here and there applying......
Continue Reading "London Art Fair"December 19, 2005
Goldfinger. Bah-Bah BAH! He’s the man…who should have used thicker toilet paperrrrr. So went the iconic sixties Bond theme. (Or was that the man with the golden pun? No matter.) Goldfinger is that rare example of a man who left his mark on both the silver screen and the west London skyline. For those who are puzzled right now, the famous Bond villain was actually named after a real-life architect, one Ernő Goldfinger. Ian......
Continue Reading "Londonist Stalks: Ernő Goldfinger"December 8, 2005
All the places featured in this Stalk are now mapped on Platial. You may remember we recently tracked down all the London-based work of Eduardo Paolozzi. This time, we took the logical step of pursuing his contemporary Enzo Plazotta. Eduardo Paolozzi… Enzo Plazzotta. You could be forgiven for confusing the two, particularly given that they were both British artists of Italian origin. Their works are very different, however. Whereas Paolozzi meshed and mashed man with......
Continue Reading "Londonist Stalks… Enzo Plazzotta"September 21, 2005
Two major exhibitions close this weekend, each devoted to a major English artist but from different ages. The Dulwich Picture Gallery has been hosting a survey of the early career of the darling of Catholic middle class England: Graham Sutherland. The blurb reads "Like its predecessors devoted to John Piper and Henry Moore, [this exhibition] revisits a major figure from a now somewhat neglected generation who dominated the British art scene in the 1930s......
Continue Reading "Two Exhibitions Not To Be Missed"August 8, 2005
A big park for posh people? A mountain-biker's paradise? Inspiration to some of England's greatest painters and poets? Or a sordid playground for fornicating couples and sodomists? Whatever your opinion of Hampstead Heath, you're probably right. The 800 acres of grasslands, meadows, woodland, ponds and bogs are truly all things to all people, and stand as a verdant reflection of London's diversity in minicosm (being too large to count as a microcosm). The Heath......
Continue Reading "Londonist Loves…Hampstead Heath"