Louisa Buck

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Osman Can Yerebakan |Louisa Buck

This month, London audiences will have a mouthwatering encounter with a Modern master whose impact on contemporary art has been enormous. But the venue is not Tate Modern. It is the Royal Ballet and Opera, which hosts Three Signature Works, a trio of pieces by George Balanchine, sublime choreographer of the Modern era: Prodigal Son, first performed in 1929, Serenade (1935) and Symphony in C (1947).

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | José Da Silva |Hannah McGivern |Louisa Buck

A career survey of the Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) will open this month at the Charleston cultural centre in Lewes, southern England. It will feature more than 100 works including a number of objects from private collections that have not been exhibited before. Darren Clarke, who has curated the show and is Charleston’s head of collections and research, has chosen five key books to get to grips with the colourful life and art of Vanessa Bell.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

As the wider world becomes increasingly embattled, a welcome dose of positivity can be found at Thomas Dane’s outpost in Naples, a city which has itself weathered centuries of turbulence. The gallery’s Art Lovers show offers an affectionately affirmative celebration of the artist couple Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing, who have lived together for more than two decades but always worked separately.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Matthew Holman |Anny Shaw |Chloë Ashby |Louisa Buck

The Manchester-based artist Louise Giovanelli’s career has been in the ascent ever since she was one of the stand-out artists in the seminal painting exhibition Mixing it Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery in 2021. She was snapped up by the blue-chip gallery White Cube in 2022 (which co-represents her with Amsterdam-based Grimm) and is now having her first major institutional solo show, A Song of Ascents, at the Hepworth Wakefield in northern England.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

The US artist Mickalene Thomas is having a moment with a solo show at London’s Hayward Gallery (All About Love, until 5 May) and an unusual new commission: a custom car wrap for Driven Artists Racing Team (Dart Car), a women-led professional motorsports team. Thomas created the wrap for the McLaren Artura GT4 race car, along with bespoke driving suits and hand-painted helmets. The initiative’s co-founders, the art adviser Spring McManus and the entrepreneur Zoë Barry, will drive the arty auto.