good stuff: the arts and darts
September 22nd, 2009
Going out in London is all about eclecticism, which is precisely why we work so hard to bring you lots of good stuff to do. If you’re in a culture vulture mode, we have tickets to Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy and for those intrepid sports fans, we have the Premier League Darts tournament at the 02, now booking for February 2010.
Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Royal Academy of Arts will hold a major solo exhibition of the renowned artist and Turner Prize winner (1991) Anish Kapoor. Elected a Royal Academician in 1999, Kapoor is internationally regarded as one of the most influential and pioneering sculptors of his generation. He is celebrated for works which enter into a profound spiritual engagement such as his early pigment sculptures; 1000 Names (1979-80), Marsyas (2002) the installation in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, and Sky Mirror, installed at the Rockefeller Centre, New York in 2006.
The exhibition will also contain works from different moments in the artist’s career as well as newly created pieces, including a major sculpture in the Annenberg Courtyard.
Whyte and Mackay Premier League Darts at the 02
Reigning champion James Wade, who overcame Mervyn King to lift the title at Wembley in May, will defend his title in the tournament, while four-time winner Phil “The Power” Taylor and Holland’s Raymond van Barneveld will also compete in this long awaited play off.
King and Terry Jenkins, the 2007 runner-up, are also likely to maintain their position within the top six of the PDC’s Order of Merit, but players such as Dennis Priestley, Ronnie Baxter and UK Open finalist Colin Osborne are all fighting for a spot going into the autumn’s major tournaments.
The 2010 Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts will again boast £400,000 prize money, including £125,000 to the eventual champion.
September 22nd, 2009
Lilly Evans says...Some 15y ago I heard Anish Kapoor talk about his sculptures at David Bohm series of lectures at Edinburgh Festival. Quick digression, David Bohm was a famous quantum physicist, Openheimer’s PhD student and Einsten’s young contemporary who was challenging physics orthodoxy and had better hearing from the artists! and
Anish Kaoor described and illustrated both the creative process and visitors interaction with his art in situ in the way that best explained quantum physics on our scale! These are real experiments and he knows exactly what he is observing as well as the importance of the participation of visitors in the art itself. Suddenly these abstract sculptures came fully to light and attained real significance.
This was the time when I finally learnt how to look at Cezanne’s and other Impressionist paintings by locating myself in them thus experiencing each anew every time – this from a physicist fried of Bohm’s, david Peat!
Fascinating and unforgettable! Prof Bohm was a long standing lecturer at Royal School of Art and had a devoted followers not just in Kapoor but also in Margaret Benyon
September 22nd, 2009
eva says...Thanks for these great insights Lilly – I would never have imagined that quantum physics had a place in the creations of Anish Kapoor.