Until 23 Jan 2011 Adrian Searle lyrically reviewed the exhibition in The Guardian, and detailed Parreno’s negotiation of the reception of his work, and his achievement of a “magical synchronicity”. Searle writes that  “The whole exhibition is a kind of journey the audience has to follow. The experience feels communal, and I think this, too, […]

Much of the press coverage of the Frieze Art Fair this year has been witty, funny, and just a little snide. It is perhaps unsurprising that Reviews of the fair have focused on the marginal apparatus: on the parties, the celebrities, the sales. This of course may be a semantic point in itself, that the […]

Heinrich Mann, an obscure German novelist, once wrote that:  “A house without books is like a room without windows.” It’s a fittingly compact phrase, and manages to switch spaces within tight confines, describing the perspectives made possible by books. The phrase enacts a heady narrowing, inherent in the solitary experience of reading, which is entirely […]

Falmouth, lovely by the sea, had a very different atmosphere – and the show was wonderfully rich, accomplished and engaging. We really enjoyed the inclusion of dissertation titles in the catalogue, and have reproduced some of them here – divorced from their bodies they are necessarily obscure but inviting, and sometimes make for surreal reading(s). […]