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A Friche With Flair: New Exhibition Ici, Ailleurs at Marseille’s La Friche Belle de Mai
Emma Double investigates the unusually named Friche Belle de Mai...
Who, Where and What is Scarfolk?
Review: Dynamic bodies in La Galerie Corps et Ame, Nîmes, France
The Galerie Corps et Âme (translated ‘Body and Soul Gallery’) in...
Review: Light Show at Hayward Gallery
«Wow». That was the first and momentarily only thought that...
Artist Retreat: La Muse
Review: Film in Space by Guy Sherwin
Film and its definition have often been explored and the...
But is it Art?
Review: Rana Begum at Bischoff/Weiss, London
Rana Begum's current solo show at Bischoff/Weiss consists of...
The Top Ten Most Memorable Art Moments of 2012: Part 1
The year of 2012 will go down in history in British sport, that...
Review: Keith Coventry: Junk Paintings
Vandalism at The Tate: Rothko’s Black on Maroon
From Rembrandt to da Vinci, art has always had problems with...
A Drawing A Day Project: Shopping
Everyone shops, but it's the little moments that...
Review: Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye
Review: Maurizio Cattelan: Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
This autumn as the nights get darker and the East London streets...
Review: ‘Free’, 50th Annual Koestler Trust Exhibition
Royal Festival Hall is currently home to Free, the...
SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE! Punk Graphics 1971- 84
When Johnny Rotten penned the apocalyptic lyric...
The Father of Modern Cuisine
Having explored the future of food in my previous article...
A Drawing A Day Project: Travel
Tate Britain, Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-1980
As we come to the end of a truly cosmopolitan Olympic summer, free from...
Food: But can I eat it?
Food, like any other cultural, artistic or social form...mouth
A Drawing A Day Project: Paralympics
So the Olympics were over, but did the world sleep and forget?
What’s On: September #2
There’s an array of art-related events happening every day in London...
What’s On: September
There’s a plethora of art-related events happening every day in...
An Artist’s Life: Conformity & Mean Girls
What does it take to make it as an artist?, is a question...
A Drawing A Day Project: Tube Life
Tube life is a series of observational drawings as part of...
Cosplay: Kapow! Comic Convention 2012
Cosplay is an abbreviation of costume play: a type of performance art...
Art: The Year Ahead
London 2012 will be about so much more than just sport. The Cultural Olympiad is promising the UK’s biggest ever...
Top 4: Things you didn’t know were Art
For some, “true” art is young and avant-garde; for others, it’s not art unless it was crafted centuries ago...
Olympic Progression?
Two weeks ago, the official Olympic and Paralympic posters for next year's games were announced. Not what...
Exhibition Review: Gerhard Richter’s Panorama
Gerhard Richter seems to be quite the darling of the...
Website Review: Newgrounds
I am a big fan of gaming. On top of gaming I also enjoy how...
East, West and Inbetween
This summer it’s seemed that the Arts section of every newspaper has had an...
Steven Klein and the Art of Not Being an Artist
Steven Klein is pulling strings at many turning points within current pop culture...
Review: Falling Up: The Gravity of Art at the Courtauld
The students on the Courtauld’s MA in curating programme are behind this exploration into the concept of gravity...
The satirical anti-anti-movement: The Vorticists
“Vorticism”: a word coined by Ezra Pound in 1913, is the name of a brief but dynamic pre-war British...
The Last Days of Summer: Outdoor Arty Events
For those enthusiastic about art and willing to combine cultural action with fresh air, we have...
Review: Richard Long at Haunch of Venison
The development of land art in the 1960s, as a form of...
Review: Pygmalion at Garrick Theatre
My first thought about this play was that it was going to be the...
Review: Government Art Collection: At Work
The idea that art can have a government “job” exerting subtle diplomatic influence is ostensibly
Remembered: Cy Twombly
Faced with Cy Twombly’s artwork, a first-time viewer may be ushered into an uncomfortable sensation...
Preview: Art in Large Doses
Many will be familiar with the health benefits that a pleasant view is believed to bring hospital patients...
Review: Women War Artists
On entering the Women War Artists’ exhibition one is faced by a wall of statistics highlighting...
Review: Kerry Tribe: Dead Star Light
A thin, black strip of audiotape, secured flush against the wall, whips round the gallery space and back...
Get in the Know: Top 5 Arts Blogs & Websites
The proliferation of blogging and social media is allowing for the emergence of a new lightweight alternative to the...
Reflection: The Visionary Trading Project
The Visionary Trading Project – which opened at the Guest Projects gallery on Friday 27 May – presents nine...
Why I Love… Robin Rhode
In this new column we hope to introduce you to some of the lesser-known, or under-appreciated, artists and...
Last Chance To See: Mark Leckey at the Serpentine
Pin It Mark Leckey, winner of the Turner Prize 2008, works mainly in collage, sculpture, video and sound. His most recent exhibition
The Cultural Olympiad: Representing Britain in 2012
In conjunction with the sporting events of next summer, the Cultural Olympiad will attempt to showcase Britain’s artistic talents and...
The Merchants of Bollywood
After an extraordinarily successful international tour seen by over two million people; the critically acclaimed...
Review: Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want
“Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me…” as Kenneth Williams once theatrically proclaimed. Tracey Emin is...
Google’s Doodles
Google Doodles have been generating a lot of buzz and excitement over the years since its origins but this year they’re on
Review: Women Make Sculpture at Pangolin
As unfashionable as it may be to point out gender inequality in this “post-feminist” age, there is still evidence of a disparity...
Turner: Remembered and Reborn
'We must remember Turner'. These were the poignant and only words John Croft, Margate citizen, wrote on...
Weekly round-up | 19 May – 25 May
This week we have seen some interesting and inspiring articles! We’ve also...
Review: The Cult of Beauty at the V&A
The V&A’s Cult of Beauty offers a striking experience, featuring the Aesthetic movement’s introduction of an explosively new, exotic...
Review: ArtPad App
Currently enjoying first place ranking on iTunes UK productivity chart, ArtPad is much more...
This Weekend: The Accidental Festival
I’m sitting at the back of a crowded studio theatre in the Roundhouse and it’s...
Weekly round-up | 12 May – 18 May
So with design work almost complete on our newest, brand spanking issue we...
Book Review: When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Fathers and friends, brothers and sisters, neighbours...
Review: Hamlet at the Globe
Anyone who expects to see a heartbreaking production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Globe theatre this...
Review: Philip Taaffe at the Gagosian Gallery
The Gagosian Gallery is currently showing Philip Taaffe’s first solo exhibition in...
Review: London Street Photography at the Museum of London
Considering the relatively large amount of effort that has gone into...
Review: An American Experiment at the National Gallery
An American Experiment provides a brief but worthy view of Art...
Book Review: Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson turned her hand to detective fiction over a decade ago following the success of her first novel...
Weekly round-up | 17 Apr-25 Apr
It’s been a busy week for the MouthLondon team! While...
The 7th London Zine Symposium
Seven years ago, in the spring of 2004, Edd Baldry had an idea. He was working out of a squatters'...
Review: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene at the Barbican Centre
The Barbican can always be relied on to bring diverse and stimulating arts into the heart of London. Taking over...
Review: Several Interruptions at the Slade
Several Interruptions is an exhibition celebrating fifteen years of the Slade Centre for...
Screentest Festival: The National Student Festival
Last weekend a new, exciting and promising event burst onto the capital's ever flowing cultural spectrum...
Food as an Art Form
In times past, food has been seen variously as nutritional, ritualistic and as an indicator of social standing...
Review: Remastered at One Marylebone
In an original collaboration of the past with the present, the Remastered project, at One Marylebone, exhibits...
MouthLondon Book Club: March 2011
In a partnership of the Culture and Arts Sections we bring you the MouthLondon Book Club. Each issue...
MouthLondon Book Club: March 2011 Discussion
A discussion between five of our contributors on the pieces chosen for March...
EXCLUSIVE Naming a Mountain: The Problems of “Sound Art”
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Artist and musician Jem Finer’s Longplayer is, famously, the longest...
Editor’s Art Choice: Adam & Eve
I never thought much of Barnett Newman. Despite abstract expressionism being one of my favourite artistic movements, his paintings never...
Review: Gabriel Orozco at the Tate Modern
A human skull covered in chequered squares, sunken sockets staring eerily out at the viewer, ragged teeth in full view. This is...
Deptford: An Unfulfilled Prophecy
Dubbed the cultural hub of South East London, Deptford has come a long way since Henry VII established the first...
Profile: New Artists
There exists beneath the sponsored hierarchy of famous young artists, a world where creativity and talent go almost unnoticed in their...
Review: Modern British Sculpture at RA
It wasn’t until I came face-to-face with the massive pendular penis of Jacob Epstein’s Adam that I realised the intent of...
Review: Romantics at Tate Britain
The Romantic exhibition in the Clore gallery at Tate Britain shows JMW Turner alongside works from his peers. It is...
EXCLUSIVE “a moment caught”
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... When I first arranged an interview with James Wallace, I proposed...
Review: The Piano Cemetery
José Luis Peixoto is Portugal’s most celebrated young novelist. In The Piano Cemetery, his second release in English, he fictionalises...
Review: Newspeak: British Art Now Part II
The second part of Saatchi’s survey of current British Art cannot escape the legacy of Sensation; a similar survey show he held...
Review: Bridget Riley Paintings at the NG
One enters the Sunley Room to find a space in which time stands still and calm reigns. It would be...
A Colourful Distraction
It’s about time we had some colour in fashion. As much as I love black it’s been...
Review: Turner Prize 2010
This year’s Turner Prize exhibition has mostly avoided the platitudes normally levelled on it by...
EXCLUSIVE Because it was Chopin…
If Paris can boast its rivière gauche with the intellectual Latin Quartier, London can...
Review: GAUGUIN – 101
I was amazed to find that Gauguin, who is construed in contemporary literature as a creative genius, began his career…
Review: Frieze Art Fair
My mother always told me to look at the sponsor of an art exhibition and ask myself...
Review: Anish Kapoor Exhibits at Kensington Gardens
Considered one of the most influential artists of his generation, Anish Kapoor has...
Exhibition #3 at the Museum of Everything
Snuggled in amongst the gastro-pubs, the mock bohemian coffee shops and the...