Cultural Diary: the best events and exhibitions in March
Spanning American modernism, post-war architecture, contemporary installations and Picasso, this month’s cultural diary packs a punch. Here’s our round-up of events and exhibitions in March, in London and beyond.
Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
Japan-born, Berlin-based Chiharu Shiota is an internationally acclaimed performance, installation and multi-media artist best known for her cave-like red thread installation that was the talk of 2015’s Venice Biennale. Her site-specific work for Yorkshire Sculpture Park will be housed in the 18th-century Chapel on the park’s grounds and will run until September.
America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
With pieces that haven’t been seen in Europe for almost a century, and 21 pieces making their first UK outing, the Ashmolean Museum is making a case for American modernism to British audiences. Blockbuster names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper are to accompany lesser-known artists in a show that will trace a movement defined by a clean aesthetic, lack of human representation and experimental abstraction.
An Evening With… Round House, London
Open House is offering the public a look into ‘Round House’, a 2016 project in Brook Green, London, by Michaelis Boyd Associates. The house deploys traditional building materials in a contemporary design, which features playful details like slides to hidden areas and a fireman’s pole.
Architecture on Film: The Wild Frontier, Barbican, London
As part of The Architecture Foundation’s bi-monthly series of film screenings, French filmmakers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval’s ‘The Wild Frontier’ will be shown at the Barbican. The work tells the story of the Calais ‘Jungle’ through an observational look at the stories of some of the temporary city’s 12,000 residents.
Superstructures: The New Architecture 1960-1990, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
To mark their 40th anniversary, the Sainsbury Centre is launching an exhibition dedicated to architectural progress in the post-war decades. Models of the Pompidou Centre by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, Nicholas Grimshaw’s International Terminal Waterloo and the Hopkins House by Michael and Patty Hopkins will be shown alongside a brand new three-metre-long model of the Sainsbury Centre, which was the first public building designed by Sir Norman Foster.
The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy, Tate Modern, London
The first ever solo Picasso show at the Tate Modern seeks to offer a never-before-seen look at one of the most adored artists of all time through personal paraphernalia and more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings. Of particular interest are a trio of canvases made over five days in March 1932 of Picasso’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter – their first collective outing since their creation.
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