12/11/13

I interviewed Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain. Penelope showed me around the £45 million refurbishment of the gallery.

30/10/13

Open Heart Surgery

The Moving Museum, London

2/5 STARS

28/10/13

Louise Bourgeois

A Woman Without Secrets

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

3/5 STARS

23/10/13

Contemporary Ukrainian Artists

Saatchi Gallery, London

2/5 STARS

23/10/13

Has The Turner Prize Grown Up?

11/10/13

Frieze Art Fair 2013

11/10/13

James Cauty

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle Parts I and II

The L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, London

9/10/13

Jane and Louise Wilson: How Two Sisters Turned A Murder Into A Work of Art

1/10/13

Yayoi Kusama

White Infinity Nets

Victoria Miro, London

1/10/13

Sarah Lucas

Situation

Whitechapel Gallery, London

20/9/13

Alison Jackson: A World Populated by Lookalikes

18/9/13

Instagram: Power of Beauty

15/9/13

A Journey Through London Subcultures: 1980s to Now

ICA Off-site: The Old Selfriedges Hotel, London

12/9/13

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013

Jerwood Visual Arts, London

3/5 STARS

26/8/13

Bob Dylan

Face Value

National Portrait Gallery, London

3/5 STARS

August 9, 2013

I had the pleasure of teaching an art reviewing masterclass to 18-24 year olds at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle. The students reviewed the current Thomas Schiebitz exhibition. Organized by the brilliant Laura Brewis, the class was part of a programme to encourage young people from the North who want to work in the arts / media.

August 5, 2013

Hugo Boss: Red Never Follows 

Saatchi Gallery, London 

3/5 STARS

June 30, 2013

For one night, novelist Sarah Perry and I were writers-in-residence at the dazzling Laura Marling / Secret Cinema gig, which took place in an abandoned school turned 1920s hotel on Victoria Park Road in Hackney. Sarah and I were stationed in the library, piled high with books and old typewriters. We asked audience members to help us with our writer's block by recounting their most intimate life stories, which we wrote and re-imagined on the typewriters. Each audience member received a copy of their story.