Pina’s sudden death in 2009 brought great pity to the world. Born in Wuppertal, a small town of Germany, Pina’s Wuppertal Dance Theatre (Tanztheater Wuppertal) not only made this town renowned, but also creates different performing arts of Germany. In 2012, as one of the London Olympiad’s repertoire, World Cites 2012 at the Barbican and …
In 1976, the era with rock, marijuana and drugs, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson met at their best age, and a historic work-Einstein on the Beach-was born at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. At that time, the play was hard to understand and even caused many debates. What on earth is this …
Like a scanned image on Google map, Moscow under Stalin’s rule is projected onto the bare wall of the theater. Flurry dancing souls in this strange space makes a devil’s party. Soviet Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is staged by the UK’s leading contemporary director Simon McBurney. A remarkable re-creation, …
18.07.2012 – 28.10.2012 The Tanks at Tate Modern are the world’s first museum galleries permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art, performance, installation and film works. The Tanks were originally massive industrial chambers containing oil that fuelled the Bankside power station and have lain unused since it was decommissioned in 1981. The cavernous underground oil tanks …
Text and images by courtesy of Serpentine Gallery 圖文提供: 倫敦蛇形畫廊 01.06.2012 – 14.10.2012 Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei have created the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It is the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. The design team responsible for the …
Text and images by courtesy of The Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art 圖文提供: Parasol Unit 當代藝術基金會 14.09.2012 – 11.11.2012 Bharti Kher is one of India’s best-known contemporary artists. With a diverse practice, Kher’s paintings, sculptures and installations transform and reinterpret the identity and meaning of subject or matter, whether it is an everyday inanimate …
Text and images by courtesy of Whitechapel Art Gallery 圖文提供: 倫敦白教堂藝術畫廊 12.10.2012 － 30.12.2012 Mel Bochner is one of the founders of Conceptual Art. Emerging in the 1960s from a generation of American artists including Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse and Robert Smithson, Bochner questioned the importance of painting as a medium and at the …
Text and images by courtesy of London Design Festival 圖文提供: 倫敦設計節 14.09.2012 – 23.09.2012 “From our sleek and fabulous New Bus for London to the iconic golden beauty of the Olympic torch, the design industry is a crucial part of London’s vibrancy as well as its success and future prosperity. That is why I am …
Text and images by courtesy of Frieze Art Fair 圖文提供: Frieze藝術博覽會 11.10.2012 – 14.10.2012 October is the start of the contemporary art fair season in Europe and what better place to kick off events than London, with this year’s tenth edition of Frieze. Everyone’s favorite contemporary art showcase brings together of over 170 international commercial …
Text and images by courtesy of The Barbican Art Gallery 圖文提供: 倫敦巴比肯藝術中心 13.09.2012 – 13.01.2013 This major photography exhibition tells a history of photography through the camera lens. The survey show brings together approximately 350 works, some rarely seen together with recent discoveries and many prints being exhibited for the first time in the UK. …
Text and images by courtesy of The Design Museum 圖文提供: 英國設計博物館 05.09.2012 – 13.01.2013 Daniel Swarovski founded the luxury crystal glass company Swarovski in 1895. Over a century and many generations later, it has pushed the cut glass medium to new heights. With its collaborations and sponsorship of experimental innovation in architecture and design, it …
Text and images by courtesy of Hayward Gallery 圖文提供: 倫敦海沃德畫廊 07.09.2012 – 09.12.2012 The first major exhibition in the UK to focus on contemporary installation and performance art from China, it brings together works by nine of the country’s most innovative artists and artist groups from the 1980s to today – Chen Zhen, Yingmei …
在今年9月，戴維·羅伯茨藝術基金搬入了坐落於倫敦北一區的康母登區主街的新的展覽空間，新空間的開幕展是由基金創辦人森特奧諾雷（Vincent Honoré）策劃的“葉之屋”展覽。展覽提供了一種基於時間的體驗：展覽將會持續的產生變化，觀眾所得到的觀展體驗也會千差萬別，隨著展覽作品的更迭，逐步地將觀眾從一個藝術運動的上下文關係中帶入到下一個運動之中，從而體會到藝術的演進過程和時間的遞進。
The Design Museum presents the first UK retrospective of iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, celebrating a career which has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design. Louboutin’s exquisite shoes, with their instantly recognisable glossy red soles, are a unique fusion of fashion, craftsmanship, engineering and sculpture. This exhibition celebrates Louboutin’s career to date …
British design studio Barber Osgerby have won the Design of the Year 2012 for their stunning design of the London 2012 Olympic Torch. The overall winner was chosen from 89 entries to claim the winning title. The London 2012 Olympic Torch is not only a beautiful symbol of the Olympic Games but it also meets …
The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday with a major exhibition that explores his unique impact on contemporary life in Britain. Through his own design work, and also through his entrepreneurial flair, Conran has transformed the look of the British home. He has established a design studio and an architectural practice with a worldwide reach. …
The V&A’s major spring exhibition showcases the best of British design and creative talent from the 1948 ‘Austerity Olympics’ to the summer of 2012. It is the first comprehensive exhibition to examine the ways in which artists and designers who were born, trained or working in the UK have produced innovative and internationally acclaimed works from …
Tate Britain announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2012. The artists are Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price. 泰特美術館英國分館（Tate Britain）宣布了2012年特納獎（Turner Prize）入圍的四位藝術家名單，這四位藝術家分別是絲芭達克絲 · 切特溫德（Spartacus Chetwynd）、路克 · 福勒爾（Luke Fowler）、保羅 · 諾布爾（Paul Noble ）以及伊麗莎白 · 普萊斯（Elizabeth Price）。 Spartacus Chetwynd For her solo exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London. Combining …
A new comprehensive survey exhibition by the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann presents seminal works from throughout his career, from his influential early photographic series to new works displaying women’s handbags. Visitors will also be able to take away an ‘unlimited edition’ print of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as a young girl. Amongst Feldmann’s …
Yayoi Kusama’s pioneering work spans over six decades and this exhibition will highlight the artist’s moments of most intense innovation. Kusama is one of Japan’s best-known living artists and since the 1940s she has developed an extensive body of work. From her earliest explorations of painting to new unseen works, the exhibition will reveal a …
This year Tate Britain stages the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso & Modern British Art examines Picasso’s evolving critical reputation in Britain and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition explores Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which …
The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by the Yorkshire countryside, many exhibited here for the first time, are shown alongside related drawings and digital video. Over 150 works are on display, the majority of which have been created in …
‘I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.’ ──Lucian Freud “我常想要在我的畫作中創造戲劇，這也是為甚麼我畫人像。從一開始，恰恰是人為我的作品帶來了戲劇感。最簡單的動作傳達著故事。” ── 路西恩 · 弗洛伊德 Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of …
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