DE/FAULT – A Collective Approach to Art
Whether to carry out high profile stunts or to simply share gallery space, collectives are a time-honoured tradition of working in the art field. London has its share of collectives, and a hive of activity in the London art scene [...]
Lucian Freud – Preview Night at the National Portrait Gallery
I didn’t quite anticipate the chorus of carping cameras nesting in the wings of the National Portrait Gallery’s entrance, when I waltzed up unassumingly moist from my one-mile sprint from Waterloo. But then I wasn’t quite the robed royal the [...]
Lis Rhodes at ICA
This is not the first time Lis Rhodes’ work has washed up on the shores of the Institute of Contemporary Art. However, the previous exhibition was back in 1975, the year when Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative [...]
Critical Dictionary: An Interview With the Curator
Critical Dictionary is an ambitious cornucopia of words and images from A-Z, questioning common perceptions and standard interpretations of meaning. Part of the artwork has now been turned into an exciting exhibition at WORK Gallery and puts the playful context [...]
The Forgetting of Proper Names
Three Polish Artists Make Their London Debut in Calvert 22 The title of Calvert 22’s most recent exhibition is a tilt of the hat to Freud’s suggestion that forgetfulness may not only be a fault of the memory, but a [...]
Alberto Burri at Estorick
Born amidst the political and artistic chaos of the First World War, and dying amidst the ‘post- post-modern’ consumerism of Europe in the 1990s, Alberto Burri’s life and art represent complete microcosms of human experience in the twentieth century. Burri’s [...]
Anselm Kiefer at White Cube
Epicurus, the Hellenistic sage, constructed a philosophy upon a “life according to nature”, a materialistic and individualised existence in which pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain were the only viable tenets. This outlook had its foundations in Epicurean atomic [...]
Zarina Bhimji at Whitechapel Gallery
Following Waldemar Januszczak’s now-infamous outburst on the subject of video art (as discussed here last issue), this exhibition, from the 2007 Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji, features the first major piece of video art of 2012. Yellow Patch, which is [...]
Da Vinci at the National Gallery
A Very Human Desire for the Metaphysical I had every intention of rocking up at some ungodly hour in Trafalgar Square to queue with the rest of the world for my Da Vinci prize. Only, as if by Immaculate Conception [...]
2012 Preview
With the coinciding of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and a little-mentioned event called the Olympics, galleries are going all-out this year, meaning some astonishing exhibitions from many of the biggest artists in the world. In 2012 fantastic art is going [...]
Building the Revolution
The common Londoner, bussing (or maybe even walking) down Piccadilly, is at present time struck by an uncanny sight: past the splendid façade and gilded gates of the Royal Academy rises high a scale model of the Tatlin Tower.This red [...]
This Place is Everything: Pablo Bronstein and Ryan Gander in London
If you were ever sceptical about the power of the placebo effect you need only spend half an hour in Ryan Gander’s new creation the Locked Room Scenario, a meticulous case study to the power of suggestion. The whole exhibition [...]
Shard Eat Your Heart Out: Architecture in London
Imagine this. It’s a beautiful sunny day and you’re strolling through Hyde Park because you’re the sort of day-seizing, get-up-and-go person who would do that. You’re smart, you’re successful, you’re having a lovely walk, and enjoying nature (of the inner [...]
BARBARELLA//COSMIC PARTY//WIN 2 TICKETS//SAT 8th OCTOBER
At the Institute Francais this weekend the BD and Comic Passion Festival is going into bilingual warp-drive. This party boasts space cocktails, a musical drawing event, vinyls are being spun by DJ Sacha Dieu and earlier in the night there [...]
Signing Your Life Away
“Elevator Gallery Informs you that the art works presented by the artist Ben Woodeson throughout the exhibition “Causality” involve a very high degree of risk of injury or death to visitors… The works constitute a severe risk in the following [...]
Video: LSE water balloon attack results in clashes
Amateur footage obtained by London Student captures some of the attack on the LSESU Palestine Society, which was holding a peaceful demonstration at the time. You can read the story in full here.
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Ross Speer
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Ross Speer. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.