Hastings is lovely! If you haven’t been before then you should check it out, and an excellent time to do so is during the annual Jack in the Green festival, which includes traditional dancing outside the recently opened Jerwood Gallery by HAT Projects.
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Architectural installation studio AtelierChanChan has created a conceptual temporary exhibition in a derelict building in Dalston, North London.
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Miscellaneous bits of junk and cheap materials combine with glass and colourful prints in this presentation that addresses the leftovers, stains and detritus of everyday life.
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Scottish artist Kenny Hunter’s sculpture I Goat was unveiled last week in Bishops Square in Spitalfields as the winner of the inaugural Spitalfields Sculpture Prize. It is now part of the Spitalfields Public Art Collection and will be joined by other works to form a new sculpture park in the area.
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To mark the release of Disney’s Tron: Legacy, large-scale graffiti experts End of the Line were commissioned to create a 17 metre fresco in East London.
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Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro
This fantastic space in Milan’s creative Tortona district is home to a permanent collection of work by one of Italy’s most famous sculptors, Arnaldo Pomodoro, as well as an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions. Until 30 January 2011 the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro presents La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, a display of contemporary sculpture by Italian artists born after the middle of the last century.
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Sky Mirror, Red
Kapoor has always claimed that his large-scale sculptures are best appreciated in an open-air setting and there is surely no better location than Kensington Gardens in all its autumnal glory.
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Ever wondered what 100 million handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds would look like? The answer can be found at Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall courtesy of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and an army of 1600 workers who helped to hand-sculpt, paint and fire these miniature artworks, resulting in a spectacular and epic creation.
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Swarm
Carpenters Workshop Gallery are presenting the first solo show by digital design trio Random International. The works on display include Swarm – a solid mass of LEDs that responds to sound, enabling it to react to the motion and noise made by people in its vicinity.
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Frieze is London’s biggest art fair; a vast, industrial scale space filled with over £200 million pounds worth of art and thousands of visitors. The sensory overload begins as soon as you enter and there’s little let up as you negotiate the dozens of stands operated by high end galleries.
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