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In the mood for some Four:Play?

GT Arts — 2013-4-30

A hot, new gay film project is looking for some support!

David Bowie Is

GT Arts — 2013-3-20

We check out the V&A's Bowie retrospective

Join the club

GT Arts — 2013-1-28

Judge Dredd is rolling with the new gay in town.

Art and Architecture

GT Arts — 2012-12-18

Simon Oldfield gallery has been a firm favourite at GT for a while, with a consistent stream of intelligent and well-received contemporary shows.

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GT Arts — 2012-11-1

At GT we love a gay artist with an edge and Dale Grimshaw works on that edge between street art and gallery, flipping between the two and often crashing them both together.

We last visited him for our GT400 issue where he talked about his previous life as a hardcore punk rocker and when he painted an entire McDonald's window pink. Time and a shift into gallery spaces may have refined his painting technique but it hasn't blunted his angry edge. And, at the moment, Dale is annoyed by the hideous excess in a society where the have-nots seem to be funding the have-but-want-even-mores.

His reaction to this is his new show Moreish which opens at the Signal Gallery in Shoreditch tomorrow. Too much of a good thing becomes disgusting and nothing expresses that better visually than paintings of food piled upon food. Especially when it's then piled over the head of a person who seems to be enjoying the sensation while also being destroyed by it. It makes for disturbing but compelling comment on the hunger for excess. It also makes us hunger for more from Dale Grimshaw. We like him when he's angry. GT

Arrangements: A solo exhibition by artist Bruce Ingram

GT Arts — 2012-10-25

The art of recycling, literally.

The Art of Clubbing

GT Arts — 2012-10-10

As a reaction to the elitist neon and chrome nightclubs of the seventies, the eighties countered with a boom in raw, underground club culture. This energetic scene created its own stars whose DIY art aesthetic pushed street style into previously unexplored regions of experimentation. One of these stars was Trojan.

Alongside Leigh Bowery, Trojan was a pioneer of alternative fashion, trash art and performance. Smashing them all together to fuel revolutionary club nights like Taboo. All this during a particularly inhospitable political environment for alternate sexuality.

Unfortunately, like most complex creativity, Trojan – born Gary Barnes – died early, overdosing on drugs at the age of 20. It's sad to lose those so creative so young and wonder what else they would have contributed.

Thankfully, the ICA (with the help of Trojan's friend John Maybury) have collected together photographs, designs and artworks to celebrate Trojan's creative energy when it was at its strongest. And, for an unmissable video of him getting ready for a night out, click here.

Some Day All The Adults Will Die!

GT Arts — 2012-9-14

New Punk exhibition opens in Hayward Gallery

Pandamonium

GT Arts — 2012-5-31

The new heart warming art show.

A Return to Beauty

GT Arts — 2012-5-23

Hot young photographer Nick Taylor’s new exhibition