Olyvia Fine Art presents ‘Andy Warhol: Portraits’; an unmissable exhibition of paintings, unique prints and films. Opening today, the show displays some of Warhol’s most celebrated works alongside previously hidden gems, showcasing Warhol’s distinctive style in a vivid and comprehensive collection. Alongside these exclusive portraits are a rare series of ‘Screen Tests’. These enchanting silent films created by Warhol {...}

Michel François, Interface Pavillion, 2010. Glass, steel, Aquasoft modeling clay, 111 x 99 x 119 inches, 281.9 x 251.5 x 302.3 cm. Photo: Courtesy Bortolami Gallery.
Bortolami presents the third solo show by Michel François. For this installation François exhibits the third in a series of works called Pavilion Interface.

The pavilion is a large cubic {...}

Scheduled to open coming Sautrday on the 27th of February will be Jonathan LeVine Gallery’s Five year anniversary group exhibition. Featuring many of our favorite artists the likes of Blek le Rat, AJ Fosik, Mark Dean Veca, Ron English, WK amongst many others. Over the past five years, Johnathan LeVine Gallery has had {...}

BEN RIVERS 12 March - 2 May 2010
For his first exhibition at the gallery Ben Rivers has assembled a dwelling from discarded and reclaimed building materials. Inside, his film Origin of the Species (2008) offers a clandestine portrait of an elderly man living in a ramshackle cottage in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands. The man devises his own {...}

Image:Isabella 2010. Acrylic on linen, 130 x 130cm.

Sartorial, Liz Neal, New Paintings, 7-9pm,
About the paintings …

‘I have been continuing to downsize my practice in accordance with the current climate. I have also had to embrace Acrylic paint. It’s a practical thing. I can no longer lurch around the flat covered in wet oil paint. I have a job to {...}

info: www.georgepolke.com
Terms are often misleading. In Chekhov’s Three Sisters one character insists that a word means ;garlic,; while the other says it means ;a meat dish;; they argue at length without admitting that they mean the same thing. - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Chaplin and Chaplinism, The Tulane Drama Review, 1966

The 1950’s American television game show ‘What’s {...}

Irving Penn, Small Trades, Rockette, New York, 1951, © by the Irving Penn Foundation

Working in London, Paris and New York, Irving Penn photographed the Small Trades between 1950 and 1951, when he was thirty-three years old. Hamiltons presents a selection of thirty black and white platinum palladium prints in the first Small Trades exhibition in Europe, following {...}

Bonhams announced that it is embracing the 1960s on 7th March when viewing opens at its New Bond Street galleries for both a specialist auction of ‘Pop and Op Art’ and the selling exhibition of ‘Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.’ - a collection of David Bailey’s iconic photographs from the 60s.

An outstanding selection of works inspired by popular culture, {...}

Friday 5 March 2010 Screening 11pm - midnight
“So, you’re a philosopher?
Yes, I think very deeply… (repeat and scratch)”
Excerpt from My Philosophy, Boogie Down Productions, Jive/RCA 1988

For My Philosophy, David Blandy brings together a selection of his work from the past 8 years, all of which explores ways to live life in the modern world. {...}