Cartoons and Graffiti
Keep up to date with the ever-expanding world of cartooning and graffiti art with Culture24 exhibition reviews and news from UK museums and galleries together with event listings, websites and resources.
Curator's Choice: David McCracken takes a look at artist Donald Urquhart's Big Jessie
David McCracken, of show organisers Peacock Visual Arts, tells us about a print featuring Elvis, Tilda Swinton, Lena Zavaroni and the "energetic glamour" of Glasgow.
Street artist Mau Mau embraces gallery walls with solo show at West Bank
The Devon-born artist who has had sell-out shows in Tokyo mixes social comment with commercial nous in a London appearance.
Elvis and Lulu get the Big Jessie treatment from Donald Urquhart at Glasgow's Brunswick
Former drag queen and clubnight accomplice Donald Urquhart brings a "low-brow bunch" to a display of his cartoonish black ink drawings at a merchant city hotel.
Marianne Faithfull and John Dunbar's Innocence and Experience at Tate Liverpool
Ben Miller talks to Marianne Faithfull as the singer-songwriter and actress unites with her former husband to choose some of the works that mean the most to her in a new exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
The Cartoon Museum remembers HM Bateman as The man who Went mad on Paper
A new display showcasing the influential cartoonist's career features a series of humorous observational drawings of British society which he began in 1907 aged just 15.
The monstrous menagerie of George Grosz heads out on a Hayward Gallery tour
The colourful Weimar characters of legendary German artist George Grosz go on tour in an exhibition making its first stop at the Sheffield Institute of Art Gallery.
Crufts gets canine urban art spin as Grufts show opens at London's Graffik Gallery
A Notting Hill gallery which is hosting a display of canine pictures invited visitors to bring their dogs to the opening and be portrayed by some of the artists.
Anderson and Low's Manga Dreams at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low take to Norwich's Sainsbury Centre with a striking series of photographic and digital artworks merging the real with the fictional.
Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits
The curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of......
Zoe Beloff dusts off Mutt and Jeff for look at early moving image at Site Gallery
Current Sheffield show The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff brings the world's longest running comic strip into focus with management science and Duchamp.
Wall to wall excitement with the Hidden City street art trail in Shoreditch
All you need to find street art in the East End is a phone, an A-to-Z and bags of enthusiasm. How hard can that be? Mark Sheerin finds out.
Newlyn Art Gallery to send one-off Art Book to auction after Museums at Night epic
We find out about the beautiful book designed by respondents to a call-out from the Cornwall venue for an all-night binding session as part of Museums at Night 2011.
Curator's Choice: Peacock Visual Arts' David McCracken on a Mike Giant print in Aberdeen
The curator of the new Black and White Show at Peacock introduces us to the American artist's striking combination of religious ephemera and gang culture imagery.
Laughter buttons send titters through gallery as Ha Ha Road opens at the Quad in Derby
A gaggle of the most entertaining artists from across the world descend upon the Quad for new exhibition Ha Ha Road in Derby.
Kill Your Darlings is homecoming show for Kid Acne at Sheffield's Millennium Gallery
The urban graffitti artist opens his first solo show in his home town of Sheffield with a wide-ranging celebration of his spraycan art, filmwork and many other projects.
