Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin on Albers, America, and architecture as entertainment

Somewhere in a maze of picket fences, golf greens and lakes, Vero Beach’s The Gallery at Windsor is a remote haven for British art world patricians. Its currently two years into a partnership with London’s Royal Academy of Arts, which...

Design / 12 Oct 2017

From Le Corbusier to the iPhone, Michael Craig-Martin’s tribute to icons of design

Which designs will really stand the test of time – and which will fade into oblivion? Michael Craig-Martin has been a practising artist for over fifty years, so he’s seen a fair few come and go, but in his latest exhibition, he pays...

Art / 5 Sep 2017

Sea change: artists make waves at the 2017 Folkestone Triennial

To many born and in bred in Folkestone, their hometown is becoming more and more like a little London by the sea – for better or worse. As city folk descend, house prices rise, and empty second homes stand skeletal...

Art / 24 Nov 2015

Michael Craig-Martin reflects on obsolete electronics at the Serpentine Gallery

Following his blockbuster of a summer show at Chatsworth House last year and a showcase of new paintings in Shanghai at the start of this year, Irish artist Michael Craig-Martin is back in the city he calls home with a...

Art / 9 Jan 2014

Artist’s Palate: Michael Craig-Martin’s omelette

In Michael Craig-Martin’s hands an omelette could, conceptually, be anything. If the primacy of the artist’s intention can make a glass of water An Oak Tree, as he maintained amid no little controversy in 1974, then an omelette can be...

Art / 23 May 2011

Michael Craig-Martin at the New Art Centre, UK

Michael Craig-Martin’s drawings on paper have been garnering hype of late - thanks to a current show at London’s Alan Cristea Gallery - but it’s his drawings in the air that are really stopping us in our tracks. On show...