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The maverick artist’s latest exhibition weaves Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ with modern and ancient American myths about nature, camouflage gear and dance
/ James Payne embraces the end of silence after months of lockdown in two new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand and Matthew Barney at the Hayward Gallery. After months of peace and quiet, no noisy roads, no loud restaurants, no dark and dingy music venues and certainly no loud music, I had gotten used to silence and stillness. In terms of visual stimulation, the only screen I’ve looked at in months is this laptop. That came to an abrupt end today, with the first show on the first day of the re-opening of museums: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand.
★★★★☆The film that lies at the heart of the latest Hayward Gallery exhibition is more than two hours long. I freely admit that in ordinary circumstances the prospect of watching it would be far from
Barney’s new film reimagines the Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon as a tale of a gun lover hunting wolves across Idaho
Show James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective, Serpentine, London A belated retrospective of the work of 91-year-old Ghanian-born photographer James Barnor, who over six decades has made work chronicling the social and cultural changes in London and Accra. Having started out as a studio photographer, Barnor moved to London in 1959, where he recorded the everyday experience of the African diaspora in the city. In the early 70s he returned to Ghana, where he pioneered colour portraiture and captured the local music scene in Accra. A vivid survey of the work of a singular photographer who ...