It was a pleasure to see those of you who were able to make it to last night’s Broken Biscuits dinner – a gastronomic and artistic collaboration which led us on a tour of the former Boundary Estate (now Shoreditch High Street and Arnold Circus) with film installations and food that reflected the history of the area. We dined on watercress soup to remember the watercress fields that Shoreditch was built upon and Venison Stew – the only meat available to the orphans that inhabited the area and inspired Charles Dickens, all to a backdrop of video works and installations by the artists that live and work there now. For the best cakes in London – stop by Leila’s Bakery on Calvert Avenue, for the evening it was converted into an immersive tableau with birds and beasts made of pastry hung in birdcages, on any other day they serve the best cupcakes in town.
MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY AT THE BARBICAN
For those of you who missed the tour last night, concept chef Caroline Hobkinson will be curating another event at the Barbican on the 6th May from 6.30pm. A conceptual Mad Hatter’s Tea Party inspired by the Barbican’s Ron Arad Exhibition and Mr Arad’s predilection for eccentric headwear. For more information click here:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10150
CY TWOMBLY AT THE LOUVRE
Cy Twombly is the third contemporary artist invited to install a permanent work at the Louvre: a painted ceiling for the Salle des Bronzes. Twombly is best known for his erratically scrawled words and energetic use of splashes and drips of colour. As you will see from the attached image, this piece takes on a thoroughly different identity. The work is more like a traditional Renaissance fresco – an immense blue sky with planet-like shapes and the names of leading Greek sculptors active in the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas. Twombly's aim was to create a work perfectly in harmony with the architecture and purpose of the space, the huge rectangular gallery housing the Louvre's collection of Classical bronzes.
SOVEREIGN ART PRIZE
The Contemporary Circle has been invited to a special breakfast viewing of the finalists for the 2009-2010 Sovereign Art Prize on April 23rd. The morning will be hosted by Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions at White Cube and Philly Adams, Curator at the Saatchi Gallery.
SAATCHI VS BANKSY The results are in and Charles Saatchi secured both the number one and number three slots for most visited exhibitions in the UK in 2009. In at number two was Banksy’s exhibition at the Bristol City Art Museum. Read more in The Art Newspaper:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Saatchi-vs-Banksy-for-most-visited-UK-show-in-2009/20425
EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective
To celebrate the release of the book Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective, Black Dog Space is presenting an exhibition the work of 13 contemporary printmakers. The work on display explores the diversity of printing techniques, from linocut, to screenprinting, etching and the latest digital printmaking technologies. The exhibition includes two Royal Academicians, Norman Ackroyd RA and Michael Craig Martin RA.
Black Dog Space
10a Acton Street
London, UNITED KINGDOM
WC1X 9NG
