Fourteen years after Derek Jarman's death, this exhibition, together with a season of films at three...
When Marcel Duchamp met Francis Picabia in September 1911, it was the start of a friendship that wou...
Face to Face - The Daros Collections
'Face to Face' presents the two facets, or faces, of the Daros Collections, finding similarities bet...
In the closing years of the seventeenth century, the youthful Peter the Great toured western Europe ...
It is now three months since the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NMCA) in Manhattan's Lower East Sid...
From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the 'W...
Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge
In 2007, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City embarked on a series of exhibits examining way...
In only five years, Frieze has gone from a standing start to being a major fixture in the art world ...
The British Museum has taken the opportunity of the current celebration of 60 years of Indian indepe...
Francesca Woodman's photographs have consistently garnered critical attention since her premature de...
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz
Pallant House's current exhibition celebrates the way in which music sustained and inspired abstract...
Documenta 12: 'Documenta as it never was'
'Documenta', the quinquennial international exhibition of contemporary art, is less strong this year...
Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
'Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress', now on at the Design Museum in London, where text (apart from c...
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein...
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson G...
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...
In a well-established American tradition of dedicated artists, David Smith the sculptor came to be l...
Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory
Daniel Buren has had a stimulating and now distinguished continuity in Britain. The arrival of his e...
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating tourin...
The Frieze Art Fair is many things: a spectacle, a film festival, a four-day extravaganza of talks, ...
French Book Art/Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue
'Never give into routine; at each step, through books or in a wider context, everything must begin a...
Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes
Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes – Edgar Degas is well known as a painter of the human figure. One...
Dada Revisited for the 21st Century
It is not often that an art exhibition ascends to the condition of a total artwork in itself, and at...
Ettore Sottsass: Architect & Designer – book review
Perhaps the most surprising statement in this book (at least for a European) is that Ettore Sottsass...
Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion – book review
So many of the works of Egon Schiele owe their existence to the numerous taboos constraining artists...
Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
The exhibition 'Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era' has succeeded...
Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context...
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
'I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly ...
London is a place continually remade by writers and artists, layering their own versions and theorie...