Past Events

And just like that White Cube @ Hoxton Saquare is gone. What over a decade ago was seen as one of the most successful and influential east London galleries will be closing its doors by the end of next month, but not without showcasing a last one! If Bermondsey is the new Hoxton and the increasing popularity of this WC space is overshadowing the gallery brand 2-floor space near Old Street, then Jay Jopling has probably made his maths right…

Born in Saint-Étienne himself and always engaged with the local artistic institutions Félix Thiollier pushed fine arts in his region very actively in the late 19th century and in the new exhibition @ Musée d’Orsay we'll get to observe his tribute to the industrialists from Saint Etienne. This is the first monograph devoted to the French photography pioneer in Paris who, at the age of 37, decided to live off his private income and devote himself above all else to art and…

Peter Blake hasn't had a big exhibition in a while, maybe because he's been too busy lately with Everything Museums and unapproachable collections. But that's about to change next week as the very central Waddington Custot Galleries will be opening his first major retrospective exhibition in the UK since 2007. Peter Blake - London - Westminster Abbey - Animalia - 2012 (image via Waddington Custot) The Brit pop-art king gets a unique solo show featuring almost 50 new and previously unseen works from the…

@ Point  éphémère they're certainly in love with Chloé Poizat. It's only been 5 months since her last exhibition at the French cultural centre and they're already preparing a new expo for this end of the year... view from last summer's Chloe Poizat wall @ Point éphémère Presented as a follow-up with last June's  "Bal de tête", "À mes yeux distendus" will guide us through  Chloé's disturbing creations who's always managed to give form to all those dark  creatures and fears who…

Third year on a row @ ICA for one the most important emerging art shows in the UK: New Contemporaries. 29 artists have been selected this year as a way to showcase what's the "hottest of the freshest" coming out of Brit art schools this year.... The Last Self-Help Book, 2011 (c) Bryan Dooley (image courtesy of ICA press office) ICA have already hosted the show several times in the 60s, 70s & 80s but it looks like the beginning of the…

A first for Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor Patricia Piccinini and her disturbing creatures, who is finally getting her own solo exhibition in London after entering V&A last year. Haunch of Venison will be hosting a good bunch of Patricia's intimate & industrial works featuring for this show five new large-scale sculptural works alongside earlier works dating from 2005 to 2011. Patricia Piccinini (c) - The Carrier (zoom) - 2012 (Image via Haunch of Venison) Always experimenting with a wide range…

And in this case this is a "third" for American actor (but also painter) Martin Mull @ Ben Brown F.A. who next Wednesday will be opening a new solo exhibition with some of his latest works... paintings centered around the discordant promises of post-World War II suburban America he grew up with. Martin Mull - Comedian (image via Ben Brown Fine Arts) Deeper paintings filled with complex narratives and unlikely situations but open to the viewer's interpretation. "It is more…