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Images from E-Vapor-8
For those who missed the show, or want to see hints again, here are images from the exhibition at Site Sheffield. From above Adham Faramawy, the entrance work was Daniel Swan below.Room 1:Travess...
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Rough Version Top 10 Art Instagram Feeds
I'm very aware of the rather bland art Instagram lists floating around at the moment. So I wanted to point out there is a world beyond the American cliches..... Mine is obviously @roughversion1 Ken...
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New Artists A-Z
A totally unrepresentative list as too many artists have overlapping initials, but here are A to Z of new/emerging artists to discover:A Rebecca AckroydB Math BassC Stewart CliffD Bryan DooleyE Cecile...
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Fade Out
I've just opened an exhibition at Club Monaco's flagship in Sloane Square with the works of Rick Myers, Stewart Cliff and Tracey Emin/Counter Editions. The works are for sale and the show is up for a...
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Frieze week and things ahoy
I'm very happy to be included in the next issue of Kaleidoscope magazine with a profile I wrote on Boychild. I've also written a list of highlights of Frieze week and London for their site that should...
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Favourite Paintings in London
TimeOut asked me to contribute to their top 100 paintings in London and these are my top 10. And they are all bloody good.
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On the road
I've been writing a lot of lists at the moment. The highlights from Istanbul for Dazed and Artsy, rundowns from Artissima in Turin, favourites in Chicago and yes with Miami coming up i'm doing a...
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Five shows to see this month
Oliver Laric @ Tanya Leighton, Berlin opening Friday Nov 21 6-9pmSelected by... curated by Michael Marriott and Jesse Wine at Limoncello, London opening Saturday Nov 22 3-5pmEd Atkins @ Isabella...
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12 Art Books to buy for Christmas
1 Bailey's East End (Steidl)Bloody hell this three volume book of photos is incredible. These city shots paint an entirely different image of Bailey. For anyone interested in cities, the documentation...
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Best in Show 2014
My annual round of up of the top ten shows of the year made it on to Dazed this year (with explanation) but here is the round up again in list form (with my own picture selection)1 PIERRE HUYGHE AT...
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Ten Art Editions to Buy Now
I've always been obsessed with looking at editions you can buy online and it amazes me how many are available and forgotten. These are ten that I'd buy before they go (and um maybe have bought for...
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Hands Off! A group show opening March 12
Hands Off!A group show curated by Francesca GavinAleksandra Domanović Anthony Anthonellis Benedict DrewBhakti BaxterCelia HemptonHarry BurdenNeil RummingNina Beier and Simon Dybbroe MøllerROOM OF...
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HANDS OFF!, Finissage Sunday 05.04, 15h-19h, ROOM OF REQUIREMENT BERLIN @ HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts from Hannes Ribarits on Vimeo.
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Images from Hands Off!
Here's documentation from the show which has now closed. List of works below.Harry BurdenBody Part Search Result, 2015Boxes and Objects bought from internetApprox. 170 x 150cmAleksandra...
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Istanbul Guide
I've been to Istanbul four time in the past six months working on the Soho House out there and these are my tips:EatYeni Lokanta, Kumbaracı Yokuşu No:66 Beyoğlu (reserve)Munferit, Yeni Çarşı Caddesi...
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New Shows in London
Work has bamboozled me and I have missed the following openings that I intend to catch up on fast:Oliver Laric @ Austrian Cultural Forum(image above)Looks @ ICACarol Bove @ David ZwirnerAA Bronson @...
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Watch This Space
Originally presented as the keynote lecture at STRP Festival March 2015.Watch This SpaceText Francesca GavinThis is an examination about our relationship to screens. How that association is changing...
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My Best of Venice 2015
These two posts went up on Dazed but i'm putting links here too for a bit of archival action. IThe top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale and Top Ten things to search out at Venice Biannale
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Nazafarin Lotfi: Indexical Realness
Nazafarin Lotfi: Indexical RealnessMay 29-July 12015, ClubMonaco, 58 Main St, South Hampton, NYCurated by Francesca GavinNazafarin Lotfi is an artist with a nuanced approach to abstraction, texture and...
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SPECTRUM at CHART Art Fair
SPECTRUM at CHART The performance programme is at the year’s edition of CHART works with demonstrating the vitality of colour and showing how it can be relevant, engaging and complex in a series of...
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Hot off the press
Here is some of the latest work out at the moment- the cover feature of the Financial Times How To Spend it Magazine- a six page feature on artists working with poetry and text in Sleek magazine with...
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Freezing
My recommendations leading up to Frieze are up.Also if you're there Friday, head to the reading room at 530pm to hear me talk with Celia Hempton and Julie Verhoeven for Kaleidoscope. I'll also be...
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CocksandCunts for Kaleidoscope Videoclub
I was honoured to curated a video project for Kaleidoscopemagazine to coincide with their Art and Sex issue (I've interviewed Celia Hempton in the mag itself and I'm also doing a talk at Frieze Art...
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A bit Berlin and little of London
I've got some curation things underway. The prints I curated for absolutart.com have launched online - and a selection are on display in the Absolut Art Apartment at Moritzplatz in Berlin Until Dec 6....
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Best in Show: 2015
Stuck this up on Dazed Digital but wanted to archive here too. My best of 2015! Apart from my own shows of course...December is the ideal time to round up an abundance of exhibitions in a tidy top ten...
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