"Surfers Fantasy" (2008) is the third in a trilogy of works by Mark and Stephen Beasley. In the radio play "ADVENTURE: Showdown at the Pig Palace", (2007) two teenagers respond to the benign architecture of a local shopping mall; in the video work "Beasley Street" (2005) two elderly dance champions deconstruct the Waltz to the strains of John Cooper Clarke's eulogy to the last of Socialist Britain in the coffee bar of Camden Arts Centre. In their new work, "Surfers Fantasy" (2008), the lost years of a middle-aged iconoclast get played out through the rough chapters of an unrealised film-script. All three works will be presented at MOT International. Read more...

Shahryar Nashat creates films and installations that revolve around coercion; the power struggle inherent in the relationship between the individual and traditional institutional powers; religion, corporate interest, the state and even art and history.

Ryan Trecartin's films, by contrast, propose extrovert and exuberant characters, performed by a close community of friends who inhabit an unfettered world. Marked by physical and linguistic excess, the films are immersed in Internet-based, image-heavy culture, informed by TV, movies, music videos, advertising and YouTube. Read more...

For their second solo show at Kate MacGarry, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard present a new work that pushes their recent series of re-working video and performance work from the early 1970's one step further. "Walking Over Acconci (Misdirected Reproaches)" is both a re-working and a response to a re-working, again twisting the language of contemporary urban music culture. Read more...

Guillermo Kuitca is a painter of space, an organiser of emptiness. While thick with proliferate marks and signs, absence pervades his pictures: "I always have the idea that my work does not start out from a blank canvas, but goes towards it." Twelve new oil paintings - some almost four metres long - and nine mixed-media works will be on display at both Hauser & Wirth's Piccadilly and Old Bond Street galleries. The paintings revisit two of the most radical explorations of space and surface in twentieth century painting: the planar shifts and fractured visions encountered in Picasso and Braque's Cubist paintings; and Fontana's iconic slashed canvases, which parted the normal parameters of painting to encompass the real world. Read more...

Paradise Row @ Sketch

Primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike. Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods. Read more...

Parasol unit is delighted to present "The Islanders: An Introduction", the latest instalment in Charles Avery's epic project which began in 2004. For the past four years, Scottish artist Avery has created texts, drawings, installations and sculptures which describe the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island, whose every feature embodies a philosophical proposition, problem or solution. Read more...

Paradise Row is proud to present "The Day Nobody Died", a solo show by renowned photographic duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

In June of this year Broomberg and Chanarin traveled to Afghanistan to be embedded with British Army units on the front line in Helmand Province. In place of their cameras they took a roll of photographic paper 50 meters long and 76.2 cm wide contained in a simple, lightproof cardboard box. Read more...