Starting August 9th, Tate Britain is hosting a free exhibition on Romantics painters. A bit more than a temporary show, the Clore Gallery’s nine rooms, previously dedicated to JMW Turner only, are being taken over by his contemporaries until December 2012…

At the end of the summer term, London’s art schools open up to the public to exhibit their students’ final degree shows – and many of the works are often available to purchase..

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I strongly recommend that you try to see this exhibition at the Gagosian which brings together pieces from one of Picasso’s most creative and imaginative periods…

Nathaniel Pimlott has been living in Oxford for the last year, spending time in the nature reserve beyond Abingdon Road; the results constitute his first solo exhibition, in Green Templeton College, a discrete graduate enclave down the Woodstock road…

Paul Kindersley is an emerging artist who focuses on making provocative installation pieces. After living and studying in Berlin and Cambridge Kindersley moved to London ….

This May, if you happen to be in the area of Victoria Station, your attention may be tickled by a collection of delicate soap vases in the front window of an otherwise inconspicuous office block…

Vacuum forming is a common method of moulding plastics, and is used to make all sorts of everyday objects, particularly packaging – sandwich cartons, hairdryers, toys, car dashboards, it’s everywhere….

Tucked around the corner of the second room in this small exhibition there is something delicious. A matzo – that big bland brother of the cracker family – is hung out to dry on the wall, vacuumed-formed within a sheet of white plastic….