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FRIEZE London 2012

Wandering through the busy corridors of the greatest contemporary art fair in London, my eyes did not know where to look with so many works of art in display. The paintings caught my attention the most, like Fiona Rae’s Something is about to happen (2012) at Timothy Taylor Gallery, representing London’s...

Rothko/Sugimoto at Pace Gallery London

Pace Gallery opens its first space in London with 8 acrylic on canvas paintings from the series of Grey Paintings of the Russian-American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko in parallel with 8 gelatin silver prints from the series Seascapes of the contemporary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Until November 15th the exhibition...

My First Thursdays

I was planning on going to First Thursdays for quite a while now, a late night art event on the first Thursday of every month in east London. Since I first moved here in April I have been trying, until this month I finally got to go. There is a pretty...

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

Thank God for art dealers and collectors, if it wasn’t for them many great works of art would have been lost. This is the case for the mythical Picasso prints from The Vollard Suite. Commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, the greatest avant-garde Paris dealer and print publisher of his day, Picasso...

Tate Tanks

It is a very exciting journey to enter Tate Modern’s new exhibition space in what used to be underground oil tanks at the former power station turned into art museum. Rehabilitated by architects Herzog & de Meuron, responsible for the original refurbishing of the place, the spaces kept their raw...

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