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Oct 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | JJ Charlesworth
Hew Locke’s specially commissioned sculptures The Watchers, part of his What have we here? exhibition - Hew Locke. Since many museums in Britain have spent the last few years tearing themselves up over whether they should continue to show objects in their collections or return them to where they came from, you’d think that the British Museum’s latest attempt to address the legacies of its past would be another ponderous lecture about colonialism and empire. Luckily, what have we here?
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | JJ Charlesworth
Hew Locke’s specially commissioned sculptures The Watchers, part of his What have we here? exhibition Credit: Hew Locke.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
Mirrors and other creatures at Sprüth Magers, London finds the YBA artist conceptually hovering between the two registers of artistic culture and design valueGary Hume’s paintings have long refused the easy way through to an image.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
The Tate director opposes the supposed ideas and interests of a ‘dominant cultural elite’ while failing to reckon with her own place within itAt one point in Gathering of Strangers, Maria Balshaw, now seven years into her directorship of Tate, criticises the ‘notion that our public organisations should be politically neutral’.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
The arts need funding, but will current proposals do anything more than create new gatekeepers? In the UK visual artists don’t make a great living from their work, while arts organisations have been faced with cuts or standstill-funding in recent years.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
Are his paintings allegories for psychological inner-states? Or reflections on societies that aspired to a future that never was? Although he began painting during the 1980s, Minoru Nomata has only recently started exhibiting outside his native Japan.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
One of the more unusual collateral exhibitions at this year’s Venice Biennale, The Rooted Nomad: M.F. Husain, might be a test case for what immersive art can and can’t doIt’s easy to criticise the genre of ‘immersive’ art: it’s all spectacle, not ‘proper’ art; all medium, no message; it’s just a form of commercial entertainment.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Keanu Reeves |JJ Charlesworth |Miéville. Del Rey
The acclaimed British ‘weird fiction’ author Miéville has stepped in to spin off his take on Reeves’s unstoppable (but inevitably sensitive, world-weary and introspective) brand of killing machineKeanu Reeves has, over the last 20 years, managed to create a sort of ur-character that has become his only product: the stoic everyman (but with mysterious depths), dragged reluctantly into ultraviolent conflicts that never really seem to end.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
artreview.com | JJ Charlesworth
Maybe it’s normal that pop culture should become museum culture, since a lot of pop culture is now getting very oldAs Taylor Swift sweeps through the UK, on her vast, record-breaking Eras world tour, the sheer mass, devotion and spending power of Swifties has altered the economic fortunes of the cities in which she alights. The prospect makes every politician a Swiftie: London’s mayor Sadiq Khan enthused that Eras would generate £300m of extra revenue for the capital.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Yuwen Jiang |JJ Charlesworth |Nirmala Devi
From Les Rencontres d’Arles to Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month Les Rencontres d’Arles 2024: Beneath the Surface Various Venues, 1 July–29 Sep Those heading to the annual photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles will find a programme of 31 exhibitions that somehow all fit within this year’s theme Beneath the Surface – which focuses on photographic narratives that ‘lead to divergent, multiple paths, all emanating from the faults in a...
