SAATCHI ONLINE MAGAZINE


DAILY NEWS, VIEWS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS
CRITICS' PICKS, OPENINGS, YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR BLOGS


Editor: Rebecca Wilson
Deputy Editor: Constance Gounod
News: Anthony Haden-Guest
New York: Jerry Saltz  Doug McClemont  Morgan Falconer
London:   Matthew Collings Rebecca Geldard
Los Angeles: Catherine Taft
Berlin: Alix Rule Ana Finel Honigman
Beijing and Shanghai: Stacey Duff Chris Moore
Hong Kong: Kate Cary Evans
Other contributors

If you would like to contribute reports on art events taking place where you live or send in news stories and press releases please email the editor.

English to Chinese English to Spanish
English to Russian English to Japanese
English to Hebrew English to French
English to Dutch English to Italian
English to Korean English to Ukrainian
English to Brazilian English to Arabic
English to Portuguese English to German
English to Polish

TODAY'S FEATURED VIDEO

MATTHEW COLLINGS AT THE OXFORD UNION PART 2

Matthew Collings defends contemporary art at the Oxford Union in a debate which took place on 5 November 2009. The motion was: "This house believes that conceptual art just isn't art", and the other speakers challenging the motion were the Polish artist Miroslaw Balka, critic Adrian Searle, and the Tate's Stephen Deuchar. The speakers supporting the motion included, bizarrely, Mark Leckey, winner of the Turner Prizer, and the Stuckist Charles Thomson. With thanks to the Stuckists for documenting read more...




Posted by: SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read Comments | Add Comment



NOVEMBER 28, 2009

MAIE YANNI ON GEORGE FIKRY AT ZAMALEK GALLERY, CAIRO


In his current show at the Zamalek Art Gallery artist George Fikry celebrates age-old traditions and mores, and explores how they have spilled over into modern-day Egyptian life. Fikry tackles his subject matter from diverse aspects and perspectives regardless of religious or political references, and shows that these rituals cross and transcend t...read more...


MICHAEL SNOW AT MOTHER'S TANKSTATION, DUBLIN

As the opening of a year-long programme of predominantly experimental film works and video installations, mother's tankstation is presenting Michael Snow's canonical 1982 conceptual cinematic work, 'So Is This'.


SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Ten photographers looking at non-places registered on Saatchi Online chosen by Victoria Chaine Mendryzk, a freelance writer currently living and working in London.

Magdalena HutterMagdalena Hutter
Damian TsutsumidaDamian Tsutsumida
Nic LyonsNic Lyons
Stefan JammerStefan Jammer
Douglas HillDouglas Hill
Sze Kiat NgSze Kiat Ng
Paul Alexander Knox KnoxPaul Alexander Knox Knox
Gesche WuerfelGesche Wuerfel
stefan marquardtstefan marquardt
Aroussi  DrissAroussi Driss
Click here for Archive

 
THIS WEEK'S OPENINGS AROUND THE WORLD

Numerous winter shows get up and running this week, with London playing host to solo offerings by Tatsuo Miyajima, Klaus Weber and Alexis Harding, while there’s also this year’s edition of Future Map, surveying the work of recent graduates from the University of the Arts London. Also, the Berlin gallery Silberkuppe will be taking over the proje...read more...

 

November 27, 2009

CATHERINE TAFT'S ROUND-UP OF THE BEST SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER

Catherine Taft picks the shows not to miss in Los Angeles this month including a series of happenings by Fritz Haeg, a survey of performance artist Barbara T Smith, new paintings by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, a solo show by University of Southern California MFA graduate, Dianna Molzan, and Dan Bayles' paintings of abstract and structural interio...read more...


BERT EELEN WINS NOVEMBER'S SAATCHI ONLINE STUDIO COMPETITION

The winner of the November Saatchi Online Studio competition is Bert Eelen. Saatchi Online contributor, Angela Marisol Roberts, comments: 'In the tradition of expressionist painters like Philip Guston, Bert Eelen's work renders the subtle psychology of the ...read more...


RUSSELL HERRON'S LONDON LISTINGS, PLUS NEWS ON STUDIOS, OPEN SUBMISSION SHOWS AND OTHER ART EVENTS

Russell Herron's listing of shows in and around London, plus studios to rent, open submission exhibitions and a few bon mots from John Baldessari currently exhibiting at Tate Modern.

November 26, 2009

KATHY RYAN ON PRUNE - ABSTRACTING REALITY, FOAM, AMSTERDAM

The exhibition 'PRUNE - abstracting reality' focuses on the complex but intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary photography. The exhibition includes only photographic work that is based on reality but which depicts this reality with a greater or lesser degree of abstraction.


DAVID MALJKOVIC AT SPRUETH MAGERS, BERLIN

The work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic engages with the heritage of modern utopias. His films, drawings, sculptures and installations often evolve around the potential of monuments and pavilions built during a period of optimism in former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s that have now been neglected or forgotten. Maljkovic resuscitates such f...read more...

November 25, 2009

ANDRÉ BUTZER AT ALISON JACQUES, LONDON

'So colour is basically about history. To animate colour is historic in the way that the image will tell us about the future and the past.' André Butzer Dominated by four monumental oil paintings measuring 340 x 260 cm, André Butzer exhibition reveals all the dizzying vibrancy and formal complexity that has distinguished the accl...read more...

November 24, 2009

BIANCA BRIGITTE BONOMI ON THE ART FESTIVAL AT HAY, HAY-ON-WYE

Last weekend saw the second annual Crunch: The Art Festival at Hay. This year's combative line-up included art commentator, Anthony Haden-Guest, sculptor Richard Wentworth (below), critic Godfrey Barker, who exposed the "conspiracy" at the heart of the art world, and curator Julian Spalding who branded Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Joseph Beuys "wo...read more...


HARUN FAROCKI AT RAVEN ROW, LONDON


For his first UK exhibition the revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki is showing nine video installations from his first two-screen project 'Interface' in 1995 to 'Immersion', 2009, about the use of virtual reality in the treatment of traumatised US soldiers following the occupation of Iraq.

November 23, 2009

JERRY SALTZ ON PERFORMA 09, NEW YORK

In the first ten days of Performa 09, I attended 20 events. I rued the jam-packed schedule, got at least one venue and time completely wrong, and drifted off during Tacita Dean's languid 100-minute film of Merce Cunningham's dance company. I witnessed Ylva Ogland trying to distill vodka and ground rubies alchemically; was transported as Ruth Sacks ...read more...


MAGDALENA HUTTER: SAATCHI ONLINE CRITIC'S CHOICE BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Magdalena Hutter is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. She has traveled many countries to work on her reportages and photographs, covering places as diverse as Kosovo and Latin America or Los Angeles and Isley in Scotland. Looking at her work, I wondered whether she perceives herself more as a photographer or as a reporter.


SHOWDOWN: THE FINALISTS OF ROUND SIX ANNOUNCED

Congratulations to the two finalists of the sixth round of the sixth SHOWDOWN competition, Dmitriy Kedrin and Geert Verbruggen. They will now go head-to-head until 9am next Monday, during which time you can vote on their two artworks. Click h...read more...

Previous page
 

 

Luca Granai

Saatchi Online Artist Of The Day

Luca Granai

Velata Seduzione

Saatchi Online Art Student Of The Day

Ian Duncan Macdonald

Saatchi Online Photographer
Of The Day

Ian duncan Macdonald

Falling

Suk Won

Saatchi Online
Video Artist
Of The Day

Suk Won

Saatchi Online Illustrator
Of The Day

Ron Zoetmulder

religie







ESSAYS BY
THE WORLD'S
LEADING
WRITERS, CRITICS
AND CURATORS
ON ART AND ARTISTS

Hans Ulrich Obrist:
Ever Spero


Ana Finel Honigman:
Dash Snow


Ellen Berkovitch:
Jay De Feo


Julian Stallabrass:
Simon Norfolk: Afghanistan Chronotopia


Julian Stallabrass:
Fetishism, Youth and Violence in the Work of Tom Sachs


Paul Farley:
Space is the Place


Olga Stefan:
The Photographs of Iren Stehli


Hal Foster:
Anthony McCall: Light-Play


Matt Price:
Barbarian Theatre: Towards a Wagnerian reading of the performances of Jonathan Meese


Rod Mengham :
Anselm Kiefer's Studio Complex in Barjac, France


Barbara Casavecchia:
An interview with Count Panza di Buomo


Rod Mengham :
The Incorrectness of Martin Kippenberger


Anthony Huberman:
The Legacy of Performance Art


Gavin Butt:
Joe Brainard's Queer Seriousness, or, how to make fun out of the avant-garde


Robert Storr:
Nalini Malani: Visions at Night Fall


Alexander Garcia Düttmann :
Cy Twombly: Names and Leanings


Steven Henry Madoff:
YZ Kami and the Fact of Mere Being


Arthur C Danto:
Francesco Clemente and the Super Sopranos


John Haskell:
Richard Prince's Private Collection


Gavin Butt:
How I Died for Kiki and Herb


Joseph Nechvatal:
Yves Klein - Body, Colour, Immaterial


Norman Rosenthal:
Georg Baselitz


Jerry Saltz:
Martin Kippenberger: The Artist Who Did Everything


Ana Finel Honigman:
What Happened to the VIP Art Star?


Jerry Saltz:
On Kawara: One Million Years


Aveek Sen :
A Distance of One's Own: Dayanita Singh's Go Away Closer


Morgan Falconer:
Peter Doig
View more essays


YOUR STUDIO: Make and display art online

STREET ART: Graffiti, murals, found work

YOUR FORUM: Online debates

CHAT LIVE: With others who like art

GALLERY GUIDE: What's on around the world

SALEROOM: Buy art free of commission

CRITS: Comments on your work by other artists

MUSEUMS: Guide to the world's great museums

COLLEGES: Guide to leading universities and art colleges

SHOWDOWN: Artists go head-to-head for visitors votes

MEET OTHERS: Meet others interested in art

ARTROOM: Under 17's make art online

SAATCHI ONLINE: Artists, students, film makers, photographers and illustrators showcase their art


CONTENTS
Saatchi Online Magazine
 SAATCHI ONLINE TV...
 MOST RECENT VIDEOS,
 YOUR MOVIE REVIEWS 
MATTHEW COLLINGS AT THE OXFORD UNION PAR...
Matthew Collings defends contemporary art at the Oxford Union in a debate which took place on 5 November 2009. The motion was: "This house believes th...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
SERAPHINE – THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF T...
Winner of seven French Academy awards, including Best Picture, the critically acclaimed Séraphine is the incredible true story of the artist, Séraph...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
JERRY SALTZ'S BOOK LAUNCH AND DAVID HOCK...
James Kalm makes a pilgrimage of fandom to the book launch party for Jerry Saltz's latest literary endeavor 'Seeing Out Louder'. The sequel to 'Seeing...

JAMES KALM

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
WOLFGANG TILLMANS ON BLOOMBERG NEW CONTE...
In this film by theCreativeTourist Bloomberg New Contemporaries chair Sacha Craddock discusses the 2009 selection of artists with panellist Wolfgang T...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
CHEN ZHEN AT THE LADONIA BIENNIAL 2009
The work of the Chinese artist Chen Zhen, who died of leukemia in December 2000, features in the ongoing Ladonia Biennial. Ladonia, a nation founded b...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
ALTERAZIONI VIDEO AND RAGNAR KJARTANSSON...
For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson presented Symphony n.1, a live and multimedia piec...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
ARTISTS AUDITION FOR SARAH JESSICA PARKE...
NYArtBeat films the long line of artists waiting to show their work to the judges of Sarah Jessica Parker's art reality TV show. Bravo's casting for t...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
CAVE PAINTING Curated by Bob Nickas at G...
"Cave Painting," organized by Bob Nickas, brings together works by 40 artists who are engaged with picture-making manifested within a painting practic...

JAMES KALM

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
JOHN BALDESSARI INTERVIEW
In FLYP's short documentary, John Baldessari reflects upon decades of making art after receiving the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venic...

SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
 
URS FISCHER AT THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK
James Kalm braves fall showers and trains his way to the Bowery's New Museum for the first major museum exhibition by Urs Fischer. Lionized as one of ...

JAMES KALM

Read All  |  Play video  |  Add a Comment
See more videos


SAATCHI ONLINE VIDEO ARTISTS OF THE WEEK


ZECA PAULO

MLADEN KALPIC

VOLKAN DIYAROGLU

GH HOVAGIMYAN

MIKE THEUER

BK KEIP

OSVALDO CIBILS

R SAHOTA

ELIE NASSER

WAYNE SLEETH

 SAATCHI ONLINE TV...
 MOST POPULAR VIDEOS
SAATCHI ONLINE TV AT NEW SENSATIONS 2008...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
BANKSY AT BRISTOL ART MUSEUM, UK
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
ANTONY GORMLEY'S INSTALLATION ENTITLED '...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
HIDDEN AND FORBIDDEN
JAMES KALM

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
SCULPTURE DIARIES: TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBST...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
SQUIRREL BY ANSSI KASITONNI
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
PAUL MCCARTHY AND MIKE KELLEY: FAMILY TY...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
MATTHEW COLLINGS ON FRANCIS BACON AND GI...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
PAPERWORKS BY PHILIP TONDA
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
 
SAATCHI ONLINE TV AT FRIEZE ART FAIR, LO...
SAATCHI ONLINE EDITORIAL

Read All | Play video | Add a Comment
See more videos


AT THE MOVIES:
FILMS YOU LIKE...
OR DON'T

Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)
By Nicolas Rilliet

Poetic and a little melancholic animated movie. Very original use of muppets. I am not sure this movie ... read more...

La mort en ce jardin (1956)
By Nicolas Rilliet

Beautiful movie. Superb photography and great cast. Dark and desesparate, peaceful and harmonic in the ... read more...

2012 (2009)
By Nicolas Rilliet

Well made, but a little boring even with the spectacular special visual effects and the hollywoodian sta... read more...

Disney's A Christmas Carol in ...
By Nicolas Rilliet

Technologicelly very well done. I found this movie very dark, even with the happy ending. I found the i... read more...

Harry Brown (2009)
By Dave the Flick

The second part of our Caine Fest is Harry Brown, set in run down Britain, it packs a weighty punch. Perh... read more...

See more reviews
Add your own reviews
Saatchi Online Magazine
Saatchi Online
Photographers

Love to hate you - 2007

Read All | Add a Comment
GULTEN IMAMOGLU
CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL

http://www.contemporaryistanbul.com/ www.gultenimamoglu.com www.gultenimamoglu.com.tr www.hayhill.com

Read All | Add a Comment
Craze Feldeinsamkeit
tonight

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/your
gallery/artist_profile/Filippos+Tsits
opoulos/30271.html

Read All | Add a Comment
SCOTTY DEN
ben asked to repost a small potrait,by friends so here it is again,painting all day and its great fun,would like to thank one of the great and good in Washington DC,for c...

Read All | Add a Comment
GULTEN IMAMOGLU
EXHIBITION

www.gultenimamoglu.com A solo exhibition with August Rodin

Read All | Add a Comment
new work
www.karlskaret.com

Read All | Add a Comment
feldeinsamkeit
tonight(fragment)

Filippos Tsitsopoulos: Feldeinsamkeit Tonight Filmed: Filippos Tsitsopoulos Performed: Filippos Tsitsopoulos Actor: Filippos Tsitsopoulos Edited: Filippos Tsitsopoulos Ed...

Read All | Play Video | Add a Comment
dailydoodle
doodle051015© http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbvDo_
qUYjY

Read All | Add a Comment
Mathew Collings is God
I love your debates from Oxford,and you are vey good on Schoool of Saatchi on the telly.You make the art world fun and probably more interesting and highbrow than it is.

Read All | Add a Comment
my heart belongs...
www.gallerihansen.dk JOHN HANSEN

Read All | Play Video | Add a Comment

Your Reviews...
Shows you like - or don't


CHLOE LEAPER
22 Gallery, London
Leapinganddying

Tedious artwork, a bit like Picasso
put through a blender and then juiced
to take out the interesting bits. This
is not art it is the production of
boredom.

Rating:

ROBERT PRISEMAN : GAS CHAMBERS
THE MINORIES GALLERY
Stefan

A tough subject that sometimes I don't
think art can talk about without
making it into a form of
entertainment, moving and disturbing

Rating:

OPEN POLAND : ARCHITECTURE AND IDENTITY
RIBA, ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
Artypete

A little out of my area of expertise,
Open Poland - Architecture and
Identity, was a thoroughly rewarding
exhibition. The mixed history of
Poland of course adds into the variety
of architectural wonders on offer
here.

Rating:

ANTIGRAVITATION
Lithuanian Embassy, London
Artypete

I always find art in Embassies a bit
difficult. I think it is the idea of
the 'artistic ambassador', makes my
right eye flicker as I cringe a bit.
The work is youthful and perhaps a
little undeveloped, ideal really for
the representation of a country's
artistic output.

Rating:

53RD VENICE BIENNALE
53RD VENICE BIENNALE
Harminder

DON'T SHED TOO MANY TEARS. It is the
last of this years Venice Biennale,
thanks you have been pleasant. Note to
self: always go in the first few days
of the opening, by the end everything
has signs on it saying it doesn't work
or isn't available.

Rating:


Fistral And Beyond. The
book project goes on

Since 1993 I have taken a large body of pictures, portraits taken on the beaches of Devon and Cornwall. Predominantly around Fistral Newquay Cornwall. I am still looking ...

Read All | Add a Comment
Black, White, and Cream -
Robert Sim

small drawings http://smalldrawings.blogspot.com

Read All | Add a Comment
wordpress.com/clairealong
e

hi Matthew Thanks for your talk today, it was just what we needed. Not a hint of a dull moment which invariably happens in most lectures. I read your blog with interest, partly because I was at Glasgow School of Art with Cathy Wilkes, but lost touch since. Please let me know if you are interested in meeting or interviewing the pop artist and contemporary of Andy Warhol: Gerald Laing. If so I can give you his contact since he is a friend of my fam...

Read All | Add a Comment
sarah-logismen.blogspot.c
om/

sarah-logismen.blogspot.com/

Read All | Add a Comment
Temples to Nature III by
Pinheiro de Santamaria

Should I drink something or should I commit suicide? No; I am going to exist. Dammit! I am going to exist. To ex-ist... To ex-ist... Give me something to drink, for I am ...

Read All | Add a Comment
new work
www.karlskaret.com

Read All | Add a Comment
Josep Puigmarti
Compromiso Social, Cultural y Medioambiental "Solo Things" por Josep Puigmarti Hoy en día, vivimos en un mundo marcado por la globalización, un mundo convulsionado por ...

Read All | Add a Comment
Photography
Copyright 2009 © Rengha Rodewill

Read All | Add a Comment
Mauve and Black - Robert
Sim

small drawings http://smalldrawings.blogspot.com

Read All | Add a Comment
The Art and Adveture of
Life

Over the years my life has been the ultimate adventure. You are only as good as what you do next.Youtube the story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpYJy4
WIpyI I spend a lot of it walking around taking in visual and sound information and storing in my head, learning about people from all walks of life with all sorts of issues. I have climbed high mountains, sailed across the seas, flown in fast jets, been winched on and of helicopters, cycled...

Read All | Add a Comment


SUBMITTED Essays


filippos
tsitsopoulos
showdown

filippos tsitsopoulos

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/
PreviewArtworks/243682

Jean Michel Basquiat

David Brendan Murphy

“To whom shall I hire myself? Which
Beast must be worshiped? What holy image
attacked? Whose hearts shall I break? What
lie must I uphold? – In what blood
shall I wade.” Arthur Rimbaud, ‘A
Season in Hell’, Arthur Rimbaud:
Collected Poem Read more..

transfer lounge
tribune pittsburgh

transfer lounge

See more essays
Add your own essays