Cross Section of a Revolution

Cross Section of a Revolution
Allora & Calzadilla, Broomberg & Chanarin, Liu Xiaodong, Haroon Mirza, Rashid Rana, Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra
Lisson Gallery

Rashid Rana’s Red Carpet, 2008 [detail]

«This group exhibition of Lisson Gallery artists explores global aspects of trade, trauma, religious belief systems and contested territories, via a number of intersecting political practices, across photographic, sculptural, painterly and filmic media.» [...MORE...]

Rashid Rana’s Red Carpet, 2008

Allora and Calzadilla, The Bell, the Digger, and the Tropical Pharmacy, 2013

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Divine Violence, 2013

Helen Carmel Benigson: Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat

Helen Carmel Benigson
Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat
Carroll / Fletcher

«...the flatness prescribed by the Internet onto the body» [...MORE...]

«These weight‐loss support group members then became avatars – digitalized versions of themselves within her videos, questioning the dematerialisation of the body through coding and information.» [...MORE...]

Helen Carmel Benigson (b.1985, London) was recently involved in Platform, a residency programme at Sheffield’s Site Gallery and the LUX Associate Artist Program. Recent solo exhibitions include: Performa.13 After Hours, New York; Going to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham and the Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town; and Palm Trees and Poker Players at UCA, Farnham and Breathe Harder, a site-specific performance at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Recent group exhibitions include: Ericka Beckman: Image games – work in context at Tate Modern, London; Videonale.14 at the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Lagos and Odessa; Videocracy at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and The House in the Sky at Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London. In 2014, Benigson was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship to support her DPhil at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

A London

A London

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Rembrandt: The Late Works

Rembrandt's 1654, A Woman bathing in a Stream
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Rembrandt's c. 1665, Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, known as 'The Jewish Bride'...
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Rembrandt's 1666, Lucretia...
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Next time you should clean your red wishful-for-recognition-or-advancement shoes, before going out all produced for the night...

... specially when you had spent hours getting your hair straight and the fringe align, got out your best scarf, which combines with the jacket, the black purse borrow from a friend that goes with the short revealing grey dress, because this is the first time that he is going out with you, and at the end of the night you want to score.

New Year's Day!!!

Gay couple with adopted children! an artwork by Alexander Kosolapov (Hero, Leader, God, painted resin, 230 x 211 x 115 cm, 2014)

(right) Gu Wenda, United Nations - Man and Space (human hair, white glue, burlap, dimensions variable), 1999-2000

(left) Ai Weiwei, Coloured Vases (Han dynasty vases and industrial paint, dimensions variable), 2007-10