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NEWSLETTER  No#14

 

22nd December, 2011

London Art Fair - 2012 - PanoramaDear Artist/Member.

 

What a year 2011 has been for the London Art scene. From Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern and Leonardo Da Vinci at the National Gallery, to Grayson Perry at the British Museum and the innovative Pablo Bronstein and Nathaniel Mellors shows at the ICA, we've had it all – iconic art works young and old!

 

Beyond London, we had a spectacular Turner Prize, which, for the first time in its 27-year history, was hosted by a non-Tate venue, and with astounding success – Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts receiving as many as 110,000 visitors to the exhibition, and prompting many critics to herald the occasion as a watershed moment for the Northeast of England. Despite valiant efforts from sculptor Karla Black, painter George Shaw, and video artist Hilary Lloyd, it was the Modernist installationist Martin Boyce who came out on top, swaying the judges with his 'sense of poetry'.

 

This year's prize will be a hard act to follow, but our money's on Ryan Gander for prize-winner 2012, with his brilliantly unnerving Locked Room Scenario surely guaranteeing his being nominated.

 

And there's plenty more to look forward to in the New Year! For one thing, we've got the fast-approaching London Art Fair 18-22 Jan – the UK’s first super fair and the world's largest fair dedicated to Modern British art – with over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th century British art alongside the very best contemporary work, from leading figures to emerging talent.

 

 

Best Regards and Happy Holidays

Paul Carter Robinson 

ArtLyst Editor

 

London Art Fair - 2012

Recommended Exhibitions
 

Coming Up

London Art Fair 2012 @ Business Design Centre

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture @ Royal Academy of Arts

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings @ Gagosian

Migrations @ Tate Britain

Hofesh Shechter & Antony Gormley: Survivor @ Barbican Art Theatre

Turner and the Elements @ Turner Contemporary

 

Current

Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali @ White Cube Bermondsey

Mystery of Appearance @ Haunch of Venison

Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space @ Serpentine

Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn @ V&A

The Spanish Line: Drawings From Ribera To Picasso @ Courtauld

 

Emerging

Bloomberg New Contemporaries: In the Presence @ ICA

Daniel Buren: One Thing To Another @ Lisson Gallery

Helen Carmel Benigson: The Future Queen of the Sceen @ Rollo Contemporary

Kleio Gizeli: Subtly into the Night @ Flowers

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Art Critic

 

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Protesting Streaker Disrupts Turner Prize

Streaker, Mark Roberts, who disrupted Mario Testino's Turner Prize announcement has turned out to be a 46 year old grandfather from Liverpool. Roberts had scrawled the cryptic slogan, 'Study This' on his belly and was escorted away before he could disrupt the awards ceremony... >> Read More

 

 

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