Museums
Damien Hirst has been so overwhelmingly present for the last two decades that you would be forgiven for thinking you've seen it all: the shark, the medicine cabinets, the spot/spin/butterfly paintings, and the meaty cattle in formaldehyde. And they are all in Tate Modern's spectacular survey, including the diamond-encrusted skull "For...
On Saturday, Hastings's Jerwood Gallery officially opened to the public — "the last link," Jerwood Foundation chairman Alan Grieve wrote rather grandiloquently, "in a string of pearls that has evolved around the South East over the past ten years." Pearl or not (and the Jerwood Foundation was after all founded by a pearl merchant), this...
Many remember Alice Channer's spectacular installation at Glasgow School of Art's majestic Mackintosh Gallery in 2010. Large sheets of paper hung from the ceiling, at once conjuring up mute banners and constructions so delicate that a breeze could have brought them down. Since then, Channer has effortlessly established herself as one of...
