Derek Boshier: Inside The Mind Of A Pop Artist at Charing X Hospital
A selection of works by Derek Boshier in the collection of the Imperial College Healthcare Charity go on display this week.
Category: Art
Back in Duke Street: Derek Boshier at Robert Fraser Gallery 1965 + Whitford Art Gallery 2015
Thanks to Pace London for providing scans of the showcard for Derek Boshier’s spring 1965 exhibition at Robert Fraser Gallery in Mayfair’s Duke Street.
Potential Architecture at Ambika P3
This handsome fold-out poster is for the exhibition Potential Architecture, which opens at London’s Ambika P3 on March 11.
A Strong Sweet Smell Of Incense: Derek Boshier at the Robert Fraser show
Derek Boshier’s 1966 work Sam Spade is given prominence in A Strong Sweet Smell Of Incense, the exhibition dedicated to the connoisseurship of the late art dealer Robert Fraser. Boshier was a client until he foreswore painting for a decade or more in 1968. This was a particularly difficult period for Fraser, who was jailed […]
Tender + tough: Jean-Francois Carly’s Surrender After portraits
Surrender After is the title of photographer/director Jean-Francois Carly’s show of nudes opening at Forge & Co in east London next week.
Started in 1986, recently completed portrait of Thea Porter celebrates show at London’s Fashion & Textile Museum
There’s a nice story behind this portrait of the late fashion designer Thea Porter, whose talents are celebrated at the just-opened exhibition at London’s Fashion & Textiles Museum. During preparations for the exhibition and the accompanying book, the curator and fashion historian Laura McLaws Helms visited British artist Penny Slinger, who had made feathered masks […]
Derek Boshier: Clash art guru + original punk rocker!
“Without hesitation, CLASH 2nd Song book is a masterpiece of graphic art” Guy Brett, writer/curator Interrogating materials for the Derek Boshier monograph has brought home the meshing of the artist’s sensibilities with punk in the 70s.
‘The greatest thing a person can achieve is astonishment’: Life drawing masterclass with Derek Boshier
‘I’ve always liked what Goethe said: “The greatest thing a person can achieve is astonishment”.’ Derek Boshier This is a delight. The magus Derek Boshier giving a Tate masterclass in life drawing from 2013: Rethink/Re-Entry, the monograph of Boshier’s life’s work I am editing, is published this autumn by Thames & Hudson.
Magical: House Of Beauty & Culture 34-36 Stamford Road N1 (254 7794)
I’m looking forward to participating in ShowStudio’s live broadcast discussion of today’s Louis Vuitton A/W 15 menswear show in Paris. Vuitton artistic director Kim Jones has been trailing the show on his Instagram feed with tantalising hints as to the direction and content. Jones’ A/W 15 collaborators include Judy Blame, Nellee Hooper and Mark Lebon […]
Metamodernism: Post-irony, new forms of sincerity and informed naivety
What is Metamodernism? In the 90s and the early 2000s it’s fair to say we grew up with a particular outlook on life, one of irony, of deconstruction and cynicism. This was noticeable in the music of Nirvana and Radiohead, in the books of Michel Houellebecq and Bret Easton Ellis, and we saw it in […]