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De La Warr Pavilion

June 2024

  • ‘I have to be as hands-on as a sculptor’ … Barbara Kasten.

    ‘Bewilderingly evanescent’: how a darkroom allergy made Barbara Kasten see the light

    The 88-year-old Chicago artist takes photography to a whole new level – as her new East Sussex show, which uses fluorescent panels to sculpt with colour, proves

June 2023

  • A volunteer restoring the Seated sculpture

    UK seaside community unites to restore vandalised statue of Black woman

    When the sculpture in Bexhill was spray-painted white, its artist invited locals to help repair it in a powerful gesture against racism

June 2018

  • Red Skies (1992) by Alison Wilding at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.

    Alison Wilding review – pure sculpture from an artist whose time has come

    This English sculptor is an alchemist, transforming primeval natural forms into dreamlike abstractions full of romance and mystery

September 2015

  • Sam Smith next to one of his splash paintings.

    Extraordinary outsiders: the makers who don't know they're artists

    They may not communicate in conventional ways, but the art in a provocative new exhibition made by people with neurological impairments gives a rare glimpse into their secret worlds

June 2015

  • Reve, 1999 by Bridget Riley

    Leading your brain into a crazy pirouette: Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion

    A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of mind-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s most significant modern artist

May 2014

  • Otto Dix's Stormtroops Advancing Under a Gas Attack, from Der Kreig

    The first world war in German art: Otto Dix's first-hand visions of horror

    In 1914 Otto Dix joined the German army as a fierce patriot; two years later he was mowing down British soldiers at the Somme. Yet few artists did more to reveal the true horror of the first world war. Jonathan Jones chronicles a great pacifist rebellion

July 2013

  • Mark Leckey's Felix the Cat at De La Warr Pavilion

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Gallery taken over by giant Felix the Cat – the week in art

    Mark Leckey takes an inflatable cat to the seaside, while artists make the public work in Manchester. Plus crab plastic, a Jay-Z dance-off, and Grayson's new frock – all in your art roundup

July 2012

  • Bexhill's Italian facelift

    Letters: The De La Warr Pavilion does not stay open late but at least the Italian Job artwork is available for viewing 24/7
  • Italian Job inspires artist to hang bus off De La Warr Pavilion - video

    All summer, a bus will teeter on the edge of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, East Sussex. Richard Wilson's installation takes its name from Michael Caine's last line in the 1969 film The Italian Job

  • Artist Richard Wilson hangs out 'Italian Job' bus to teeter on Bexhill pavilion

    De La Warr Pavilion becomes plinth for mock-up of Michael Caine coach during 2012 Cultural Olympiad

November 2011

  • Alan Haydon

    Alan Haydon obituary

    Arts administrator who transformed and reopened the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, as a centre for contemporary work

September 2011

  • Britain's best buildings
    De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea: 'A dash of foreign innovation' - video

    Steve Rose celebrates the modernist pavilion that rebranded the experience of British seaside towns in the 1930s

August 2011

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    360 degree buildings
    5: The De La Warr Pavilion, 1935

    As part of our series exploring Britain's architectural wonders, Rowan Moore introduces an interactive 360-degree photograph of the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

February 2007

  • 10 museum projects in line for £100,000 award

    Weston Park in Sheffield, the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, and the De La Warr pavilion at Bexhill, an art deco gem voted one of the nation's favourite modernist buildings, are among the 10 national museum projects nominated yesterday for the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize, richest cash prize in the arts

October 2005

  • Seventy years on, pavilion is restored to its former glory

    The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, is to reopen today after a £8m restoration.

April 2005

  • Back to the future

    Deyan Sudjic celebrates the restoration of the stunning, modernist De La Warr Pavilion.

April 2002

  • Facelift for De La Warr's reputation

  • Historic building to get £7m facelift

March 2001

  • Architectural wonders and blunders
    Wonders and blunders

    Wonder: De La Warr pavilion
    Blunder: Building site, London

March 2000

  • And they want to turn this into a pub?

    The Dome at Worthing. The Moorings at Largs. The West Pier, Brighton. The Regency terraces of Ramsgate. All gone, going or very much down on their luck. We are careless with our best and most enjoyable seaside architecture. We let it fall to pieces, destroy it or undermine it, as if the sea itself were not threat enough.

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