One of the exhibitions within our fifty-year history that I have been intrigued by since my time at the gallery is The Raw and the Cooked (1993), an exhibition curated by Alison Britton and Martina Margetts during David Elliott’s long tenure as Director. The exhibition took its title from Claude Leví-Strauss’s influential 1964 text of… Continue reading The Director’s Archive: The Raw and the Cooked, 1993
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KALEIDOSCOPE Live Online
KALEIDOSCOPE Live is a new programme dedicated to the support and production of performance art, live and online. Five KALEIDOSCOPE Live performances and events will be live-streamed in collaboration with this is tomorrow, developing an exciting new digital home for performance. this is tomorrow is an online platform that aims to become a comprehensive archive of contemporary art,… Continue reading KALEIDOSCOPE Live Online
The Archive: Space Place, 1966
Find out more about one of the earliest exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, held in 1966. (Words by Hilary Floe.) Space Place: Constructed Space Participation was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 28 November to 24 December 1966. The Museum of Modern Art Oxford (MOMA) founder and architect Trevor Green selected Maurice… Continue reading The Archive: Space Place, 1966
The Archive on The Channel in 2016
Throughout 2016, as part of Modern Art Oxford’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the Channel will host two posts a month exploring the gallery’s rich archive. For the first of every month, Modern Art Oxford’s curators have selected exhibitions from the gallery’s history, including Myth & Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian Art (1982) and Out of Beirut (2006). Mid-month, Director Paul Hobson… Continue reading The Archive on The Channel in 2016
London Art Fair 20-24 January 2016
LONDON ART FAIR 2016 20-24 January 2016 VIP Preview 19 January Business Design Centre, Islington, N1 0QH London Art Fair is the UK’s premier Modern British and contemporary art Fair. Following a hugely successful 27th edition, the Fair returns to the Business Design Centre in Islington from 20-24 January 2016, welcoming 126 galleries presenting the… Continue reading London Art Fair 20-24 January 2016
The Making of Anne Hardy’s FIELD Installation
Watch Anne Hardy and the Modern Art Oxford production team creating Pitch Black, a smooth echo / A scoop with a shelter, for the exhibition FIELD in autumn 2016. “This large-scale installation uses a scoop of blue carpet to form a field: a surface that the work, and you, are contained in. The shape of this structure… Continue reading The Making of Anne Hardy’s FIELD Installation
Contemporary Craft and Jewellery Showcase at Modern Art Oxford
Contemporary Craft and Jewellery Showcase at Modern Art Oxford Launching 7 November 2015 In a brand new venture, the Modern Art Oxford Shop will provide a showcasing opportunity for artists across the UK, through an on-going rolling programme of changing “miniature exhibitions” of new work in ceramics, jewellery, textiles and other media. Modern Art Oxford… Continue reading Contemporary Craft and Jewellery Showcase at Modern Art Oxford
Platform Graduate Award – Susannah Canning: Modern Art Oxford Amplified
The Platform Graduate Award is an annual award designed to nurture new artistic talent by selecting and exhibiting work from art school graduates from the south east of England, providing support through the critical period between graduation and life as a professional artist. Susannah Canning (Oxford Brookes University) created a new audio walk in response to Modern… Continue reading Platform Graduate Award – Susannah Canning: Modern Art Oxford Amplified
Student Rep Review – Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2)
Modern Art Oxford student representative volunteer Cora Salkovskis reviews Lynn Hershman Leeson’s exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. – Unsettling, yet oddly playful: Lynn Hershman Leeson at Modern Art Oxford 30 May – 9 August 2015Cora Salkovskis, (Student Rep Volunteer, July 2015) At times stark and disturbing, at others playful, this major solo exhibition of American multi-disciplinary… Continue reading Student Rep Review – Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2)
Perspectives: Cheating
A short series of talks on cheating, fakes and frauds to accompany the exhibition by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Speakers include: Nigel Warburton: The Ethics of Cheating Warburton discusses how and why we decide to cheat and if it’s ever ok to cheat. Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher, podcaster and writer, described by Julian Baggini… Continue reading Perspectives: Cheating