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

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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-…

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. …