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The noxious future of Chakaia Booker’s prophetic tire sculptures
Kristin Capps · The Washington Post May 21, 2025The sculptor’s monumental tire tapestries at the National Gallery of Art, alongside her haunting prints, are painstakingly crafted and subtly menacing. In a row of six images at the National... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments
Alfred Mac Adam · Brooklyn Rail May 21, 2025Gardening may be divided into three species: kitchen gardening—parterre-gardening—and landskip, or picturesque-gardening… It consists in pleasing the imagination by scenes of grandeur, beauty, or variety. Convenience merely has no share... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay at 100: A Century of Concrete Poetry and Classical Resistance
Artnet Gallery Network · Artnet May 15, 2025In New York, David Nolan Gallery presents a centennial exhibition on the pioneering artist, poet, and gardener. Artist, poet, philosopher, gardener, the multihyphenate Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) created a body... -
What's on our Cultural Calendar this May
Ingrid Abramovitch · Elle Decor May 13, 2025Our editors’ picks for the best design, art, and architecture happenings around. IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: FRAGMENTS AT DAVID NOLAN GALLERY New York City Philosopher. Sculptor. Poet. Gardener. The late Scottish... -
Vian Sora Paints Life’s Precarious Cycles With a Defiant Beauty
Osman Can Yerebakan · Elephant April 29, 2025The artist’s new exhibition in New York expands the scale of disarmingly erratic paintings. Vian Sora was hovering somewhere above the Persian Gulf last November. After the plane left behind... -
The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia
Digby Warde-Aldam · The Spectator April 26, 2025On the centenary of his birth, we remember visionary artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose heavies, the 'Saint-Just Vigilantes’, once vandalised the offices of Apollo magazine Not many artists engage in... -
Written on Tablets of Stonypath
Alec Finlay · The World of Interiors April 23, 2025The poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay was a man of fragile disposition and fixed – but not always logical – views. He made model toys that weren’t to be... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: The groundbreaking artist and poet who created ‘Little Sparta’
Tom Lubbock · The Independent April 21, 2025The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet and artist: born Nassau, Bahamas 28 October 1925; CBE... -
Dare you journey to Little Sparta — a point of no return?
Natalie Whittle · Financial Times April 18, 2025On the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay — poet, iconoclast, social revolutionary and maritime obsessive — his Scottish garden is being celebrated as his greatest work of... -
Dallas’ Art Fairs Open With Slow-Burn Sales and Museum Acquisitions That Signal Regional Potential
Elisa Carollo · Observer April 11, 2025From important museum acquisitions to six-figure sales, the Dallas Art Fair and its boutique counterpart, the Dallas Invitational, show the city’s collectors are serious players. 'Among the fair’s more established... -
The New York Shows You Need to See this Spring
Sam Falb · Elephant April 4, 2025David Nolan: Sky From Below (March 7-May 3) Flying above her homeland of Iraq, Vian Sora was inspired to develop a new series of paintings based on the familiar vista... -
Monumental sculptures by Chakaia Booker presented at the National Gallery of Art
ArtDaily April 5, 2025WASHINGTON, DC .- For over four decades, Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) has cut, coiled, and contorted used tires, transforming this industrial waste into abstract sculpture. Gravitating toward found, weathered tires,... -
Ian Hamilton Finlay review – the visionary Scottish poet-artist’s mind in closeup
Laura Cumming · The Guardian March 23, 2025Words and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, which are ideally displayed in this intimate centenary show Star/Steer...
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