kelise: art, the unusual and out-of-the-way places

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Swing a wrecking ball at artist block with Meschac Gaba’s block art at Tate Modern, London

Last Friday afternoon was spent getting lost in Tate Modern with a couple of friends, with no real aim but to see some art and have a cuppa in the Member’s Room. For me, though, this visit wa…

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‘Foreign Bodies’ by sculptor Adam Zoltowski – 242 Cambridge Heath Rd, London

Adam Zoltowski, contemporary sculptor and Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibitor (2014), installs his 4 newest works in a solo show in Bethnal Green (242 Cambridge Heath Road). Ends Friday 10 Febru…

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More than one way to sketch a cat: Royal Drawing School vs Drink-and-Draw – London

Based on countless arty chats over the years, I have concluded that people who don’t draw much (or ever), easily consider it to be a lofty and noble pursuit for a few special people aided by …

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Preview of ‘Holding the Man’ by Tommy Murphy – Jack Studio Theatre, London

Recently, I had the opportunity to look in on a rehearsal run of “Holding the Man”, a stage play by Tommy Murphy, who based the script on Timothy Conigrave’s 1995 memoire of the s…

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Curious and quirky street art by Southbank Mosaics a tribute to William Blake – Waterloo, London

Speaking of art, unusual things, and out-of-the-way places, I found all three at once when tooling around on a bike and my route took me through Carlisle Lane behind Waterloo Station. A dark and mu…

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The case for sculpture galleries on a cruise ship – somewhere in the Mediterranean

Art, it has been said, “is in the eye of the beholder” but when half-ton marbles on plinths appear in every corridor on MSC’s larger ships, I have to wonder, are they still works …

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‘The Room is the Resonator’ Paul Abbott, Alex Roberts look at memory, perception and complicity of viewers – Old Police Station, Deptford, London

British artists Paul Abbott and Alex Roberts present their duo exhibition, “The Room is the Resonator” at The Old Police Station in Deptford (London) as part of Art Licks Weekend / Dept…

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‘Create Syria – the future constellation’ in Talking Peace Festival at House of Vans, London – peace through arts, film, food, and tech

Part of the “Talking Peace Festival” sponsored by International Alert, “Create Syria – the future constellation” is a multi-media installation of art, music, and film …

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Guiseppe Penone’s trees in the Rijksmuseum Gardens, Amsterdam – ‘irresistible forces of nature’

In the fourth of a series of five planned public exhibitions in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum gardens, Italian artist Guiseppe Penone presents 25 sculptures that “express a close connection w…

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‘The Minotaur’ in Old Vic Tunnels, Waterloo – a beautiful and terrifying ‘tale of hubris’

This piece was written in October 2011 but never published. I recently came across some images and found them as striking five years later as I did then, so I thought I’d share what I remembe…

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Dreaming of English Gardens in gallery curated by Alice Shirley for 2016 Art for Youth – Mall Galleries, London

Art for Youth celebrates the quintessential English garden as the focal point for this year’s fundraising event in aid of UK Youth, who organise learning, adventure, and life-skills programme…

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In 2016 MA Fine Art show, you’ll find the figurative, the fanciful, and all realms between – Chelsea College of Arts, London

The 2016 MA Fine Art summer show is on from 3 to 9 September 2016, at Chelsea College of Arts, London. As with previous years, business-as-usual is comprised of anything-but in a show that includes…

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The “un-familiar” at 2016 MA Fine Art Postgraduate Summer Show – Chelsea College of Arts, London

Chelsea College of Arts in London opens their 2016 MA Fine Art Summer show on Saturday 3 September 2016, followed by the PV on Monday 5 September. I could hardly wait to see what’s new so I h…

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Praça Mauá is alive with street art, including record-breaking mural by Eduardo Kobra – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro’s Praça Mauá port is a destination for street art lovers, where Brazilian artists adorn the pier in living colour – and muralist Eduardo Kobra is tipped to break a world-…

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A visit to Oscar Niemeyer’s flying saucer – MAC: Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In town for the Rio 2016 Olympics, it’s a must to grab a ferry across the bay for both the great views of Rio’s skyline and for a visit to Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC) de Niterói. …