Results tagged “art”

ART
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Royal Academy
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Unseen work and barely a swimming pool insight, David Hockney's mammouth Royal Academy show sees the artist getting back to his roots.

Elusive street artist Banksy has left his mark on the Isle of Dogs.

A new piece of work has appeared on the side of a derelict building on East India Dock Road.

The tallest piece of art in Britain reached its full height this afternoon with the topping out of the ArcelorMittal Orbit on the Olympic Park.

The 114.5m tall sculpture, designed by artists Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, towers over the neighbouring Olympic Stadium and is destined to become a popular tourist attraction in its own right.

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is set to unveil his debut collection of fine art later this month, with his limited edition prints available in Canary Wharf.

As well as being an legendary rocker Wood is also an accomplished artists and Artisan Fine Art will stock his work from October 22.

A mass of inked and pierced body art fans descended on Tobacco Dock on Friday for the annual International Tattoo convention.

Now in its seventh year, the show attracts more than 20,000 visitors and exhibitors from across the globe over the weekend but has permanent body art become too mainstream.

A statue by British sculptor Henry Moore made its long-awaited return to Greenwich Park this morning.

Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, made by Moore in 1976, has been restored to the plinth on which it stood between 1979 and 2007, where it will be on display for the next two years.

A sculpture by British artist Henry Moore is being returned to Greenwich Park more than four years after it was removed.

Moore's 1976 work Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge will be sited on its original plinth next week on a two year loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. It had stood on the spot from 1979 until 2007.

EXHIBITION
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
"We've let rip," says co-ordinator Chris Le Brun and evidence of this liberation is splattered across the walls of this vibrant space.

Controversial artist Tracey Emin has done the unthinkable. She has managed to shock herself.

Speaking at the launch of her first retrospective, Tracey Emin: Love Is what You Want, she said: "I'm a little bit embarrassed about the tampons. When we unpacked that work I was like, 'oh no'. I made that work I think 12 years ago.

Celebrated surrealist Joan Miro chose not to be known as Juan as a statement of his Catalonian identity and it is this close identification with his heritage that has influenced much of his art.

A sizable retrospective of the work of the Spanish modernist painter, who died in 1983, opened at the Tate Modern today (Thursday).

The unassuming Victorian facade of a former dog food factory conceals a hive of creative industry.

Bespoke bridal jewellery designer Jo Thorne and her partner Michael Parfitt have a live-work studio in the artistic hub, a few minutes' walk from Langdon Park DLR.

When artist James Husbands was looking for a venue for his new exhibition he knew Canary Wharf would be the perfect match.

His series, Sporting Greats, opened at First Edition in Cabot Square this week, and Husbands was keen to bring his work to an area he loves.

EXHIBITION
Watercolour
Tate Britain
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
This excellent exhibition tells an Upstairs, Downstairs tale of an overlooked but very British artform.

As Government cuts begin to bite and museums and galleries begin to ponder radical solutions, the question of access to culture has become a hot topic.

According to Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, cultural institutions are relying on "a 20th century formula which worked well in the past, may work well now, but probably won't in a decade's time". They need to be leading the way in changing how new technology is used, he said in a recent speech about cultural innovation at the National Theatre.

Like the kid at the back of the classroom concealing his true genius under the guise of the joker, Tate Modern's latest big exhibitor is an artist whose humour goes deeper. Marching to the beat of a different drummer, Orozco displays a mind you want to crawl inside.

Heralded as one of the most influential artists of his generation, the Mexican sculptor, photographer and installationist has managed to exist largely unnoticed in the UK.

The title of the latest exhibition in the lobby of One Canada Square marries two sources of yellow in the artist's life - the door to his studio and the third level of storm warning in China, where the work was created.

Malcolm Ross-White has been travelling back and forth to the East for about six years and works in Jingdezhen, China's major centre for ceramics production.

Come with a past, leave with a future, is the motto at Ian Mikardo High School in Tower Hamlets.
The boys at this special school were not expected to succeed and their own aspirations were low - all of the 22 students, aged 11-16, have been excluded from other schools. But they are encouraged to express themselves through art and their creations are to be auctioned for charity.

An illuminated waterfall of words will be cascading down the walls of Chancellor Passage from next month.

The installation by German artist Julius Popp combines creativity with science and technology to produce a striking sluice of script.

Regular structure and geometric shapes piled up and aligned sit pretty comfortably in the lobby of Canary Wharf's iconic tower.

The wooden, MDF and foam rubber rectangle sculptures arrived at One Canada Square this week and look as if they were made for the space.

EXHIBITION
Gauguin: Maker Of Myth
Tate Modern
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
The Tate Modern brings together an impressive collection of Gauguin's work, placing him on the pedestal that he craved.