3 Shows worth seeing in London.

It's a rarity that there should even be one good show worth seeing in London but at the moment there are 3, they are:

The James Taylor Gallery has invited six local artist-run organisations to each occupy a room within their vast Victorian warehouse.
OPEN Monday to Sunday 12pm - 6pm
(Closed Monday 26th & Tuesday 27th October)

JT Project 09 could be: an opportunity for new collaborations, a series of compromises, a grand experiment.
Centre of the Universe
Fieldgate Gallery
Five Years
James Taylor Gallery
Katie Guggenheim
Supine Studios
Transition Gallery

Matthew Brannon at The Approach
Time Out Review

Anthea Hamilton at IBID Projects
10 October - 29 November 2009

Hannah Barry

The Hannah Barry Gallery (AKA South London Art Mafia) opens a new show this week "Time Flies", the gallery show is predominantly made up of paintings while large sculpture occupy the nearby roof. A selection of wreckage from the recent Bold Tendencies III show, as well as new work described favourably here by the Financial Times:

"Since opening in 2007, Hannah Barry has consistently shown the best young work in London. This group exhibition extends from her warehouse premises to Peckham’s disused multistorey carpark, where Molly Smyth’s brick sculpture “Project for a Union”, monumental but fragile and full of formal interest, occupies the roof in ambitious dialogue with the capital’s skyline. Other works opening up sculpture’s possibilities include Dash Mayowen and Max Lawson’s “Liminal Land”, a living system of animals, plants, light and water. New figurative paintings, urban, gritty, visionary, from Oliver Eales and Nathan Cash Davidson are a delight."

12 October - 30 November
Gallery: 133 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN
Carpark: Peckham Rye Multistory Car Park, 95A Rye Lane

Anish Kapoor Show / Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts presents a major solo exhibition of the work of the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor, winner of the 1991 Turner Prize and one of the most influential and pioneering sculptors of his generation.

The exhibition surveys Kapoor’s career to date showcasing a number of new and previously unseen works, including a select group of Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time.

Timeout Video Review

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J OBD

Transport: Piccadilly Circus / Green Park

Frieze Art Fair 2009

Frieze Art Fair
15-18 October 2009

Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. The fair showcases new and established artists to an international audience.

As a part of Frieze a series of talks are staged each year, here are two that may be of particular interest:

Scenes from a Marriage: Have Art and Theory Drifted Apart?

12pm, Friday 16 October

Since the 1980s, when buzzwords like ‘semiotics’ were prevalent in the art world, theory has played an important role in the interpretation, and making, of art. Yet, after all these years, has contemporary art really influenced the way philosophers think? And is theory still relevant to today’s artists?

• Simon Critchley (Chair & Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York)
• Robert Storr (Artist, Critic, Curator and Dean of Yale School of Art)
• Barbara Bloom (Artist)
• Chair: Jörg Heiser (Co-editor, frieze)

Art and the State: Back to New Deal Funding?

2.30pm, Friday 16 October

What are the pros and cons of state-funded art and cultural production at a moment of severe economic crisis?

• DD Guttenplan (Writer and historian)
• W.A.G.E (Artist)
• Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Strategic Managing Director of departure, Vienna; former Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum)
• Yu Yeon Kim (Independent curator)
• Chair: Jenni Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Centre)

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