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Exhibition tip - Graphic design from Japan in 100 posters

One hundred posters, selected from amongst the thousands of works submitted each year for the most prestigious awards, representing the best of Japanese graphics over the last ten years continue

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace is a selection of works drawn from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Consisting primarily of large-scale sculptural or installation work, the exhibition was designed so as to foster a contemplative stroll, making the body central to the visitor's experience of art and offering a journey into a perceptual dimension that activates the physical, the sensory, and the cerebral continue

Baghdad, 5 March 2007

The crushed vehicle does not only serve as an entry point to a discussion about the Iraq conflict, it also comments on the increasingly harsh impact of war on civilian and cultural life. A display at the museum states that at the start of the 20th century, 10 % of war casualties were civilians. Today, they make up 90% continue

Loving Couples

The series that put me in a merry mood for the rest of the day is Tony Hayward's 'Loving Couples' porcelain figurines. The artist found damaged porcelain lovers on a flea market and 'restored' them by adding a replacement head that belong to today's pop culture. The lovely shepherdess shows her legs to a green monster and a love-struck squire courts a girl with a playmobil head continue

Book review: Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art

The first book to present the full historical sweep, global reach and technical developments of the street art movement, Trespass features key works by 150 artists, and connects four generations of visionary outlaws including Jean Tinguely, Spencer Tunick, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shepard Fairey, Blu, Billboard Liberation Front, Guerrilla Girls and Banksy, among others. It also includes dozens of previously unpublished photographs of long-lost works and legendary, ephemeral urban artworks continue

M10

To discover M10, you have to open a very mundane door. Then another one on your right. And another one in front of you. There are ten of them, each leading to a plain, beige room so claustrophobic you quickly look for more doors that will take you out of there as the art critics mayhem pictured here demonstrates continue

Nihil ex Nihilo

Félix Luque's three-fold work tells the story of a computer which, after an electronic alteration, decides to free the other machines and becomes mad in the process continue

Follow up on 2 Million &1AD - The fossilisation machine

In the previous episode, Austin Houldsworth had installed a 'Fossilisation Machine' in the Tatton Park estates in England. He was hoping that his rudimentary machine could fast-forward the fossilisation process and petrify a pineapple and pheasant over the Summer only. Two weeks ago, the artist opened the prototype fossilisation machine and checked out the outcome of the experiment continue

Eros und Stasi

Some 100 works by photographers as Sibylle Bergemann, Evelyn Richter, Ulrich Wüst, Ute Mahler, Will McBride, Helga Paris and Roger Melis. In black and white, they have documented everyday situations that reflect the more recent history of East-Germany beyond high politics - snapshots that show the professional and private everyday life, political activities, urban landscapes, interiors and nudes continue

Walking the Solar System

To get a sense of the true vastness of the Solar System, you are invited to follow its walkable scale model. Along one of Britain's most longest Roman roads, local shopkeepers at the appropriate points on the route are acting as guardians to the planets - hosting models represented by everyday objects, at their correct sizes on this 3.1 km scale continue

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