Special Project selected for Edinburgh Art Festival - Performance finishing at Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
'songs for someone who isn't there' is an Edinburgh Art Festival Special Project which took place on 1st August 2015 around the streets of the city, presenting artists and poets who work with the voice and language.
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In its current arrangement ‘Island’ is ambitious, inviting visitors to retreat to an archipelago of solipsism and unruly escapism. Review by Rowan Lear
The International Journal for Fine Art, Philosophy and the Wild Sciences. Vol. 2, No. 1
Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 Bilbao, Spain
'Now's the Time', a major retrospective of drawings and paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat is reviewed by Anneka French.
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd, London NW3 6DG
Following abandoned, marginal and unidentifiable places throughout her career, Collins collects hollow shells of human habitation that bare traces of the living, with haptic surfaces more alive than their departed ghosts. Review by Andrea Williamson
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
If to be abstracted demonstrates a distance from the material world, then Martin’s paintings consistently suggest an otherworldly state of mind. Review by Hatty Nestor
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France
Mona Hatoum's solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou features more than a hundred of her works produced between 1977 and 2015.
Sprüth Magers, 7A Grafton Street, London, W1S 4EJ
In his first ever exhibition in London John Waters attempts to resolve issues about childhood fame, false glamour, the horrors of nouveau-riche excess, his ongoing sexual attractions and the possible risk of ‘careericide’ with dignity.
Bluecoat. School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
RESOURCE engages with the Bluecoat’s original interdisciplinary ethos, not simply presenting art, design and literature next to each other but providing a platform for their intersection. Review by Beth Bramich
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Uli Sigg’s unique collection of Chinese Art is currently being displayed in Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery for the first and only time in the UK. All of the works - through their very existence under a noticeably oppressive state - are unified by a polemic of self-expression. Review by Josh Wilson
KARST, 22 George Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 3NY
Inspired by a painting in the collection of Plymouth City Museum, Keith Harrison has developed the intriguing project ‘Heavy Rock | Plymouth Sound’, a sculptural commission and exhibition, currently partly on show at KARST. Review by Edith Doove
Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad St, Birmingham, West Midlands B1 2ND
The latest exhibition at the Library of Birmingham epitomises the idea of a photograph that is a trace of reality and, most importantly, an encounter with the unreal. Review by Dominika Mackiewicz
narrative projects, 110 New Cavendish Street London, Fitzrovia W1W 6XR
'Round - tripping' takes the marketplace as its starting point, offering takes on it filtered through the artists' own, culturally-specific lenses. Helena Haimes reviews the exhibition.
