Another kind of life, another essential viewing
20 photographers on the margins of society I very much enjoyed Another Kind of Life at Barbican, a show of 20 photographers from the 50s to today representing “disenfranchised communities”. Even […]
20 photographers on the margins of society I very much enjoyed Another Kind of Life at Barbican, a show of 20 photographers from the 50s to today representing “disenfranchised communities”. Even […]
To celebrate the new Tate Modern opening – have you been yet? – la Fée Culturelle went through her archives of blog posts on exhibitions at Tate Modern since 2012. […]
One week in May 2017: 40 country pavilions; six collateral events and other pavilions; seven temporary exhibitions, 120km walked, and 10 ice creams (various flavours). A bank holiday weekend in […]
Evans, le photographe du vernaculaire américain Présenté actuellement au Centre Pompidou, Walker Evans (1903-75) est le photographe du vernaculaire. Il est difficile de s’accorder sur une seule définition du vernaculaire. […]
First posthumous retrospective covering six decades of Rauschenberg The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding the first posthumous retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, […]
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen”, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. For a few days in London, we […]
Landmark show of at the MoMA in 1976 William Eggleston (b. 1939 – Memphis, Tennessee, US) is best known for his “snapshot” style, banal subjects and, most importantly, for being […]
I write mostly about the exhibitions that I have enjoyed/loved, Ragnar Kjartansson’s show (b. 1976, Reykjavik, Iceland) at Barbican Art Gallery joins the list. I didn’t expect to like […]
Grater, nails, slicer, strainer, electric current, cages: works by Mona Hatoum (b. 1952 in Beirut) appear hostile. Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Palestinian family, although her works […]
Most known for his controversial ‘Piss Christ’ I didn’t know what to expect going to ‘Andres Serrano Uncensored photographs’ at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. […]