19 Mar 2010 - 7 May 2010
Alexia Goethe Gallery is pleased to present Valérie Jolly’s first solo exhibition, “Infra-Thin”. Her ethereal sculptures and photographs could either be an apparition or in the process of vanishing, like a lasting impression or a fading memory.

Valérie Jolly’s delicate and fragile casts of everyday objects, echoes of the interstices between {...}

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 {...}

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 {...}

Sunday 28 March 2010 11.15am - 6.30pm
The Tabernacle Powis Square, Notting Hill, London, W11 2AY
www.carnivalvillage.org.uk/
£15 doesn’t last as long as it used to these days…it could get you two hours and an overdose of e-numbers at the cinema, an hour catching up over cocktails, a couple of hours working up a sweat in a salsa class {...}

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, {...}

Riflemaker 79 Beak Street, Soho, London W1 2 March – 24 April 2010
The French/Algerian artist Alice Anderson (b.1976) will fill Riflemaker in Soho with thousands of metres of hair as part of an installation, including film, sculptures and photographs, based on fictional childhood memories from 1 March 2010.

Anderson considers time, or more particularly the way {...}