New Order at Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on… at Serpentine Gallery

Published 01/05/2013

April/May 2013

New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery. April/May 2013

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In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection

A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, the faceless boatman ferrying the souls of the dead across the River Styx, the watery existence ascribed to the souls in Hades' underworld and Purgatory - the quintessential departure lounge where Christian souls gather waiting to pass into eternal bliss.
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint

When we speak of executing something - an article, a work of art, a musical composition - we speak of working towards some kind of resolution, of there being a sequence of events causally related and moving forward in time. Sometimes the end product, in the case of art, will stand on its own without a trace of what went before, as if all moments working up to that point have been washed clean, leaving the work immaculate, but in a way, lifeless.
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture

In his seminal essay
Mario Testino: Kate Who?

Kate Who? at the Saatchi Gallery, London examines Mario Testino
Lygia Pape - Magnetized Space

Lygia Pape once said that her primary interest, when she embarked upon a career in the arts in the early 1950s, was to create a relationship between space and structure using the minimum of visual elements possible

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