Former Givenchy Creative Director Riccardo Tisci will become Burberry’s new Chief Creative Officer as of March 12 2018, the company announced early this morning. Tisci, who left Givenchy on January 31 2018 after working for the brand for 12 years, will take over Christopher Bailey’s position. Bailey resigned from Burberry in October 2017, after 17…
Coinciding with the launch of Wolfgang Tillmans’ new book, What Is Different?, the artist will be in conversation with writer and critic Sean O’Hagan at the ICA on 28 February. Guest-edited and designed by Tillmans, What Is Different? is a reader and artist’s book on current affairs written from an international perspective, taking the ‘backfire effect’ as its starting point….
The Serpentine Gallery has announced the latest designer of its annual Pavilion. Taking on this year’s project, Frida Escobedo is the first solo female architect to receive the commission, since the inaugural design put forward by the late Zaha Hadid in 2000. At 38 years of age, Escobedo is the youngest designer yet to receive…
As the summer of 2015 faded into autumn, the Southbank’s resident Brutalist enclave of the Hayward Gallery moved to shutter its doors for the next two years. The intended function of building’s 66 sawtooth skylights, dreamed up by the artist Henry Moore in his campaign to let in ‘God’s good daylight’ – a move against…
Rózsa Farkas, founder and director of project space-turned-gallery, Arcadia Missa, will be leading a discussion on the changing nature of art collection and curation this month. The conversation, held on 17 Feb at the Royal Academy of Arts, will explore the changing approaches to collecting and viewing art over the course of history. In response…
Marking the launch of TASCHEN’s 2018 book sale, running now until 28 January with reductions of up to 75% across the celebrated publisher’s collection, Something Curated selects five inspiring, must-have titles – currently discounted. The beautiful volumes on offer span the worlds of Modernist architecture, the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, the provocative images of Richard…
The South London Gallery has announced that its new annexe in the former Peckham Road Fire Station across the road from the main gallery site will open to the public this autumn. Director, Margot Heller said: “As we enter the final stages of our fundraising campaign, we are delighted to be able to confirm that the…
Independent curator Cairo Clarke is guest curating a group exhibition this month at The Tap Room, entitled The Reinvention of Love. Opening on Saturday 20th January, The Reinvention of Love manifests itself through the work of London-based visual artists Adam Glibbery, Anna Ilsley, Lindsey Mendick, and Faye Wei Wei. Inspired by philosopher Byung-Chul Han, the exhibition considers…