Digby Warde-Aldam

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London’s best contemporary art show is in Penge

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Digby Warde-Aldam

If you’ve been reading the more excitable pages of the arts press lately, you might be aware that the London gallery scene is having one of its periodic ‘moments’. A fair few spaces, mostly concentrated around Fitzrovia, have sprouted up since the pandemic, notable for their bacchanalian openings and tantalisingly gnomic Instagram posts.
London's best contemporary art show is in Penge

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

If you’ve been reading the more excitable pages of the arts press lately, you might be aware that the London gallery scene is having one of its periodic ‘moments’. A fair few spaces, mostly concentrated around Fitzrovia, have sprouted up since the pandemic, notable for their bacchanalian openings and tantalisingly gnomic Instagram posts. Their online presence is at best spectral: the most hyped of the bunch, a Smithfield gallery called Ginny on Frederick, has a holding page in place of a website.
Decent redesign, ravishing rehang: the new-look National Gallery reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Digby Warde-Aldam

A little under a year ago, it emerged that builders working on the redevelopment of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing had discovered an unusual time capsule embedded in a pillar they had been instructed to knock down. It contained a letter signed by Sir John Sainsbury, who, along with his brothers, had thrown the museum a £50 million lifeline to realise the extension in 1990; and clearly, he wasn’t happy with the way his money was being spent.
Decent redesign, ravishing rehang: the new-look National Gallery reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

A little under a year ago, it emerged that builders working on the redevelopment of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing had discovered an unusual time capsule embedded in a pillar they had been instructed to knock down. It contained a letter signed by Sir John Sainsbury, who, along with his brothers, had thrown the museum a £50 million lifeline to realise the extension in 1990; and clearly, he wasn’t happy with the way his money was being spent.
The ‘Shitshow’ of Documenta 14 Gets the Big Screen Treatment

1 month ago | artreview.com | Digby Warde-Aldam

We watched Exergue, Dimitris Athiridis’s 14-hour documentary about the one that went wrong, so you don’t have toI recently revisited my notes on Documenta 14 and recalled a rough calculation I’d made.
The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia

2 months ago | spectator.com.au | Digby Warde-Aldam

Not many artists engage in the maintenance of a private militia, and it seems fair to assume that those who do may be bound to polarise. The Scottish poet, sculptor, ‘avant-gardener’ and would-be revolutionary Ian Hamilton Finlay was just such a figure: and boy, did he polarise. To his fans, he is a cult figure in the true sense, a limitlessly inventive visionary whose Lanarkshire home and garden remain a site of pilgrimage.
The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

Not many artists engage in the maintenance of a private militia, and it seems fair to assume that those who do may be bound to polarise. The Scottish poet, sculptor, ‘avant-gardener’ and would-be revolutionary Ian Hamilton Finlay was just such a figure: and boy, did he polarise. To his fans, he is a cult figure in the true sense, a limitlessly inventive visionary whose Lanarkshire home and garden remain a site of pilgrimage.
Antonio Obá Has an Axe to Grind

Mar 24, 2025 | artreview.com | Digby Warde-Aldam

Festim da alma at Mendes Wood DM, Paris interrogates the marginalisation of Black culture in BrazilAntonio Obá has an axe to grind, and quite understandably so. His chief concern is the marginalisation of Black culture in his native Brazil – and the fact that the country has all but buried its considerable debt to Africa in the creation of a national identity. His work is heavy on symbolism, mysticism and allusions to cultural syntheses between Catholicism and Candomblé spiritual traditions.
A blast: Leigh Bowery!, at Tate Modern, reviewed

Mar 5, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

Tate Modern’s latest exhibition is a bizarre proposition on so many levels. Its subject, the Australian designer, performer, provocateur and club scenester Leigh Bowery, was by all accounts inescapable in London for much of the 1980s and early 1990s. Standing at well over 6ft and weighing 17st, he would have been a conspicuous presence on the capital’s streets even had he not adopted the berserk sci-fi drag attire that became his signature aesthetic.
A blast: Leigh Bowery!, at Tate Modern, reviewed

Mar 5, 2025 | spectator.com.au | Digby Warde-Aldam

Leigh Bowery!Tate Modern, until 31 August Tate Modern’s latest exhibition is a bizarre proposition on so many levels. Its subject, the Australian designer, performer, provocateur and club scenester Leigh Bowery, was by all accounts inescapable in London for much of the 1980s and early 1990s.