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Time Out
29-04-2025
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© Camden Arts Centre Tal R exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, 2008. © Camden Arts Centre Camden Arts Centre: garden and café. © Camden Arts Centre Bomb damage during the Blitz: © Camden Arts Centre Camden Arts Centre: garden. © Camden Arts Centre Mike Nelson installation at Camden Arts Centre (1998, recreated 2010). © Camden Arts Centre Ruth Ewan installation at Camden Arts Centre, 2015. © Camden Arts Centre Review Way up on Finchley Road, Camden Art Centre has been quietly ploughing its own artistic furrow since 1965 (it was Hampstead Central Library before that). Go for free contemporary art exhibitions by the likes of Richard Wright, Lonnie Holley and Duane Linklater, with late opening hours on Thursday making an after work trip entirely possible. Or check out the line-up of workshops and events where you can learn skills like making dyes, or attend book launches by local writers. Camden also boasts a great bookshop, a lovely garden and an ace café. Do you own this business? Sign in & claim business By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. 🙌 Awesome, you're subscribed! Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Discover Time Out original video
Telegraph
23-04-2025
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The 2025 Turner Prize shortlist has been announced – and there's one clear favourite
Last year, when the Turner Prize turned 40, there were calls for it to be retired. While they were excessive – the 2024 edition was hardly egregious, and I relished the energy provided by the winner, Jasleen Kaur – there is a legitimate sense that the annual, £25,000 award is in the doldrums of a midlife crisis, and nowadays attracts mostly lukewarm enthusiasm, or, worse, indifference. This year's shortlist – announced on April 23, the 250th birthday of the radical British artist, JMW Turner (after whom the prize is named) – may not allay such concerns. It's respectable and hard to fault, rather than controversial. And, with four artists nominated for far-flung shows and presentations in Barcelona, Sharjah, Berlin, and (unusually, for an award supposedly celebrating contemporary art's cutting edge) at Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century Oxfordshire seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, I worry that it may reflect a view you often hear these days: that London's pre-eminence as an international centre for contemporary art has dissipated. Chosen for After the Storm, a first-rate show at Blenheim dealing with war's spectral repercussions, the 40-year-old, Iraqi-born, London-based painter Mohammed Sami is the frontrunner; he'd be a popular winner, too, given that, as an artist, he so clearly operates within the tradition of Western European painting. His inclusion this year also makes up for the fact that he was short-changed last time around, when he should have been nominated for another brilliant solo exhibition, at Camden Art Centre in 2023. When, though, push comes to shove, and it's time to select a winner, will he seem like an unduly conservative choice to the curators on the jury, who may pride themselves on being more avant-garde in their tastes? The surreal paintings of the 41-year-old Canadian-born Zadie Xa – who also produces fabric pieces inspired by the patchwork aesthetic of traditional Korean textiles, in homage to her heritage – are less sad and wistful, and, in a sense, more 'now'. As a 'nonverbal' artist, the 58-year-old Glaswegian-born Nnena Kalu – nominated for an installation of exuberant suspended sculptures at a biennial in Barcelona, as well as a presentation of swirling graphic works that were shown in Liverpool – will attract attention. She also extends a trend since the prize was expanded in 2017 (to include artists over the age of 50) to nominate older, and previously overlooked, black female artists – including two, in Lubaina Himid and Veronica Ryan, who went on to win. Yet, it would be unfair to describe Kalu's inclusion as a box-ticking exercise, given the bold, beguiling energy of her work. Which leaves 27-year-old Rene Matić, who's about to open a show of new work at London's Arcadia Missa gallery. They (Matić's preferred pronoun) were a rare ray of excellence and hope illuminating Tate Britain's otherwise benighted rehang of its permanent display in 2023. While their photography may be in thrall to that of a former Turner Prize-winner, Wolfgang Tillmans, it has a mesmerising, frisky informality, and electrifying grasp of the effects of colour. I'll be delighted if they carry off the prize, if Sami doesn't bag it.
The Guardian
11-04-2025
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- The Guardian
Cosmic visions, Edwardian bling and Middle Eastern monuments – the week in art
Ali Cherri: How I Am MonumentThis Beirut-born artist creates contemporary monuments that echo the archaeology of the Middle East. Baltic, Gateshead, from 12 April to 12 October Richard WrightComplex, beguiling yet ephemeral site-specific paintings by the 2009 Turner prize winner. Camden Art Centre, London, from 16 April to 22 June The Edwardians: Age of EleganceJohn Singer Sargent, Edward Burne-Jones and more capture the bling and complacency of the golden summers before the first world war. King's Gallery, London, until 23 November Astronomy Photographer of the Year ExhibitionRavishing images of the cosmos, mostly taken by amateur astronomers with easily available equipment. National Maritime Museum, London, until 11 August Inventing Post-ImpressionismHow the critic Roger Fry championed the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh and more in early 20th-century Britain. Charleston, Sussex, until 2 November As you let David Hockney's intense blues cascade over you to the strains of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at his new exhibition in Paris, you realise how deep and sustaining a love for life this man feels and can communicate. Read the full review. A retrospective of British artist Ed Atkins follows his quest to 'reimagine life's chaos' Almost 130 years after his death, the work of William Morris has gone viral A giant memorial quilt for people who died of Aids is to show at Tate Modern A LS Lowry painting sold to a Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m Eco research studio Material Cultures believes nature has the best building materials A new exhibition is showcasing artworks from Californians hit by the recent wildfires Called 'freak pictures', Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone's works transformed Irish art The BBC reinstalled a sculpture by paedophile Eric Gill with a new protective screen A Landscape With Tobias and the Angel by Jan Lievens, 1640-4 As a young painter, Jan Lievens worked in friendship and rivalry with Rembrandt – no less. They were both based in Leiden, possibly sharing a studio. Art lovers who visited them raved about the two youthful geniuses. But Rembrandt went on to sublime highs and lows, his personal disasters only deepening his art. Lievens had a much more ordinary career. It was hard to be exceptional in the market-led art world of 17th-century Holland with its appetite for craftsmanlike depictions of reality. This painting shows how much Lievens has in common with Rembrandt, nonetheless: an appetite for biblical tales and melancholic inner poetry. Lievens depicts the little figures of Tobias, who was sent on a journey by his blind father Tobit, and the angel who helped him catch a fish: making an ointment from its gall, Tobias was able to heal Tobit's eyes. The supernatural encounter is almost banal in its everyday quality. It is the shadowy, cloud-muffled northern landscape that engrosses the artist. Lievens loses himself in dark trees and the shimmering surface of a river. Sombre and strange, his landscape is a romantic poem of rural sadness. National Gallery, London If you don't already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here. If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@
