• Features

Atlas London: Loving the Brut

The Hayward seems to stand for a different way of doing things.

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Apr 1, 2018 10:18 am

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Luke Willis Thompson

Luke Willis Thompson’s film provides a counter-narrative, or a counter-image to Diamond Reynolds’s Facebook Live broadcast in 2016.

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Aug 23, 2017 4:33 pm

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David Hockney

David Hockney is one of the most popular and widely-recognized artists of our time," states the introductory wall text in Tate Britain's retrospective––though actually that's putting it mildly.&nbsp…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Apr 24, 2017 5:06 pm

• Reviews

Amie Siegel

Marble is a metamorphic rock—limestone, originally, that has been compressed and refined by geologic forces and has undergone a change of state.

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Mar 24, 2017 5:42 pm

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Ken Price

Ken Price (1935–2012) wanted his ceramics to look like they were made out of color—and that was certainly the effect of those exhibited in the North Gallery of Hauser & Wirth’s impressive survey show…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Mar 2, 2017 3:14 pm

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Uriel Orlow

Uriel Orlow is Swiss, and lives and works in London—so mounting an exhibition about the history and culture of South Africa, specifically exploring links between plant ecology and social identity in t…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Nov 21, 2016 12:40 pm

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Mary Heilmann

It was palpably clear from her Whitechapel Gallery retrospective that Mary Heilmann had initially trained as a sculptor—and not just because the earliest piece on display, The Big Dipper (1969), was…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Sep 26, 2016 2:40 pm

• Reviews

Mark Wallinger

Selfhood has been the main, abiding theme of Mark Wallinger’s art in recent years. For his debut exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, spread across the gallery’s two neighboring London spaces, he gave the …

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• May 26, 2016 2:44 pm

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Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a pioneering abstractionist—that, essentially, is how the Serpentine frames the artist for its current survey of her work, “Painting the Unseen.” Certainly, the five-roo…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Apr 21, 2016 3:15 pm

• Reviews

“Intellectual Barbarians: The Kibbo Kift Kindred”

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift serves as one of the more fascinating minor episodes in 20th-century British history. Part of the interwar ferment of experimental lifestyles and youth movements, the Kin…

• By
  Gabriel Coxhead
• Feb 25, 2016 12:45 pm