Launching next month, from 13 – 25 August 2019, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will host Temporal Deprogramming, a new live commission by Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artists Black Quantum Futurism, comprising a two-week programme of music, performance, spoken word, talks and workshops set within a new installation in the ICA Lower Gallery. Black Quantum Futurism (BQF)…
Open from today and running until 5 January 2020, Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern with a major exhibition, following his renowned installation The weather project at the institution back in 2003. In the 16 years since, Eliasson has been celebrated internationally as one of the most stirring artists working today. Bringing together around 40…
Coinciding with London Pride over the weekend, the JW Anderson team, including the label’s Creative Director, Jonathan Anderson, were celebrating the occasion outside their soon-to-open Soho flagship store, handing out limited edition key-rings and temporary transfer tattoos adorned with celebratory illustrations by artist Pol Anglada. According to Anderson’s Instagram, the new space is set to…
Hashti, in most traditional houses in Iran, is the space behind the sar-dar or doorway; they are designed in many different shapes, including octagonal, hexagonal, square and rectangular. The hashti is a space of distribution and circulation. Hasht, which means eight, is an allusion to an octagon with several directions which makes it possible to…
American artist Susan Cianciolo’s wide-ranging practice traverses craft, fashion and daily domestic life. Fabric off-cuts, buttons, cardboard boxes, diary pages and her young daughter’s drawings become integral parts of works in which the seemingly casual and low-fi nature of their construction is at odds with the precision of their compositions. In New York during the late 1990s, Cianciolo launched her project RUN,…
Eastern Margins, dedicated to creating physical spaces and events for the East Asian music community in London and beyond, will take over celebrated experimental venue Cafe OTO tonight, Tuesday 18 June, for three audiovisual presentations orbiting around the concept of Surveillance Reality: the reality of living in a surveillance state and the digital tools we…
For her first solo show in the UK, opening at South London Gallery on 14 June and running until 1 September 2019, Russian-Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur presents new sculptural works incorporating photographs selected from her substantial archive of images documenting the lives of people from the African diaspora. Artur has taken photographs across Europe,…
The team behind Shoreditch’s acclaimed modern British restaurant Lyle’s, chef James Lowe and general manager John Ogier, are set to launch a second site this June. A wine bar and bakery called Flor will open at 1 Bedale Street, on the edge of Borough Market, near London Bridge. Lowe notes that all the produce used…