Review: London Art Galleries and Exhibitions

What caught Sabine Koch’s eye in London’s art galleries and museums… Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily letizia-battaglia-life-love-and-death-sicily    The Photographer’s Gallery is always worth a visit, but this exhibition blew my mind. It shows the work of the late, great photographer Letizia Battaglia, who chronicled the effect the Mafia had on Sicily. […]

Leigh Bowery!

This Spring, Tate Modern will celebrate the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery – one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century. In his short but extraordinary life, Bowery (1961-1994) forged a truly unique path. Known variously as an artist, performer, club kid, model, TV personality, fashion designer and musician, […]

Art Review: Vincent Van Gogh Alive London

“This is no ordinary art exhibition” and with no actual paintings, but 38 huge screens magnifying 3,000 Van Gogh images you’d be wondering what he’d make of it all. The artist himself doesn’t quite come alive in this exhibition and might well be rolling in his grave, but finally counting up the money. Van Gogh […]

ART: London Project at the new MD Gallery

Okay nothing new in a pop up art gallery in London’s new gallery district Fitzrovia. But this has Magda Danysz, one of the first art gallerists to recognise digital art & video, street art, and Chinese contemporary photography. Successfully spotting the major contemporary arts trends of recent years and street art legends Futura, André and […]