Today Somerset House Studios launches Grounding Practice, a new year round programme of workshops, presentations and conversations as a resource shaped by and for creative practitioners and critical thinkers. With contributors to the programme including director and moving image artist Akinola Davies Jr., feminist writer Lola Olufemi, curator Imani Robinson, and performance artist Florence Peake,…
Imagine stepping into a gallery that cantilevers off a steep hillside, floating in the forest. The bright Provence light sifts inside with you, and its rays wrap the artworks like a glaze. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, the compelling building was the last work produced by the architect before his retirement from Rogers…
London-based British-Nigerian composer and multi-disciplinary artist Klein has announced today her latest album Harmattan is set for release via acclaimed classical label, PENTATONE, on 19 November 2021. Klein also reveals the self-directed video for first single, hope dealers. Explaining her inspiration behind the track, the artist tells: “Honestly, to me, hope dealers is really an…
Launching this September, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Serpentine are set to present a major multi-venue exhibition dedicated to artist Theaster Gates’ clay practice for 2021-22. The programme features a major solo exhibition of the artist’s clay-based work, collection displays and new commissions. This ambitious collaboration is led by Whitechapel…
Doyle Wham, dubbed as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery, is collaborating with 14 Cavendish to present a group exhibition showcasing four exciting photographers from Nigeria, Kenya, Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire against a unique architectural backdrop. The exhibition runs from today, 23 July, to 13 August 2021. Offering a compelling insight into current photographic…
Frieze reveals details of the inaugural programme for No.9 Cork Street, the art organisation’s major new initiative, offering flexible exhibition space for visiting galleries in the heart of Mayfair, London. Launching 7 October, the Matheson Whiteley-designed gallery opens with ambitious exhibitions from James Cohan, Commonwealth and Council and Proyectos Ultravioleta, running through 23 October 2021….
Today, John Alexander Skelton releases his Spring/Summer 2022 collection, captured through film and stills in the designer’s native North Yorkshire. Skelton frequently utilises recycled fabrics such as antique bed sheets and old grain sacks, often found in markets, customising these materials through hand-dying, over-washing, painting and patching techniques. This season, owing to the constraints of…
While its in-person events are imminently set to resume, Art Basel is not showing signs of slowing down its digital initiatives anytime soon. On view from 16-19 June and featuring 94 galleries from 29 countries and territories, ‘OVR: Portals’ is Art Basel’s first curator-led online iteration. Here, participating galleries are presenting thoughtfully curated solo and…