Tuesday March 3rd
Abel Auer is exhibiting at Corvi Mora in Kennington. Using ink, oil, and acrylic to canvas, the Hamburg residing artist creates surreal landscapes and fantastical creatures that make your eyes swirl. Exhibition ends on March 28th.
Wednesday March 4th
Father of Mail Art and seminal in the pop art movement, New York artist Ray Johnson is exhibiting posthumously at Ravens Row. It will be the first large UK show of his work, comprising largely in his mailings, objects he regarded as gifts, as well as some of the collages he subjected to a seemingly endless process of reworking and overlaying. Please Add and Return will run at Ravens Row until the 10th of May.
Thursday March 5th
First Thursdays, of course.
But also, to coincide with International Woman’s Day on the 8th of March (wow, a whole day! What should we do first?), a group of sixteen artists will be exhibiting a diverse collection of work that focuses on the fairer sex without using the “f” word. This is not a F******* Art Show! is running in a temporary art space at The Electricians Shop between the 5th and the 10th of March. The exhibition aims to raise lots of questions relating to feminism and art and how they are related in a post-feminist society.
Friday March 6th
A new month, and a new exhibit at FRED. If you don’t get to Vyner Street for First Thursdays, go for the quieter option of a Friday afternoon stroll, and have a look at Dan Coombs current exhibition, The Dreamers.
Saturday March 7th
It’s time for Sanpit no. 9, this time at the Barbican Centre, surely a place designed for play – once again we present to the world of new pervasive games. Sandpit is a monthly event of playful activity with the intersection of games and other forms of culture: games plus theatre, games plus sport, games plus music, games plus guided tours, and so on. Each event operates under a loose theme, and this one is in conjunction with the Barbican’s Do Something Different Weekend. Sandpit will be running the show from 7pm until 10pm, with plenty of chasing, hunting, hiding, seeking, and doing. The event is free, and there’s no need to book – just turn up in the foyer of the Barbican Centre, next to the the Lakeside Terrace. As well as the Sandpit games, there’ll be knitting, films, bicycling to Brighton, and much more.
