Archive

  • Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

    Coming on to the art scene at the height of Abstract Expressionism, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was to introduce yet another curve in the road into the history of art in the 20th century.

  • A Highly Calculated Affair: Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity

    Musée d’Orsay, Paris 25 September 2012 – 20 January 2013 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 26 February – 27 May 2013 Art Institute of Chicago 26 June – 22 September 2013

  • Antony Gormley: Blind Light

    Hayward Gallery, London 17 May-19 August 2007 An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wide range of Gormley’s ideas. Earlier work is important, and given due precedence. But this exhibition seems…

  • Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles

    British Museum, London, 15 November 2002-26 January 2003 Antony Gormley’s ‘Field for the British Isles’ is one of the most riveting projects by a British sculptor. Made up of 40,000 small terracotta figures, it is now on show at the…

  • Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend

    ‘I seek truth. What I seek is anything that will work for me. I’ll use a lie if it works, and that [becomes] the truth.’ Louise Nevelson As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic…

  • l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti

    l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti Centre Pompidou, Paris 17 October 2007-11 February 2008

  • Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art

    Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection Museum of Arts and Design, New York 18 May-10 September 2006 The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobby and back again.…

  • Donald Judd

    Tate Modern, London 5 February-25 April 2004 Though a failure as a societal ethic, simplicity has nevertheless exercised a powerful influence on the complex patterns of American culture. As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual…

  • Daniel Roth: The Well

    Daniel Roth: The Well The South London Gallery 1 February-12 March 2006

  • Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century

    Japan Society, New York 29 September 2006-21 January 2007 ‘Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century’, on view at Japan Society in New York City, expands on a 2005 exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. Curated…

  • Lynn Chadwick CBE: Pyramids, Split Forms and Beasts

    One Canary Wharf and Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London E14 13 September-26 November 2004

  • Reading the Head

    Celia Scott: Head to Head Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London 4 May–29 June 2012

  • Anthony Caro

    The sacred purpose of art is to invite us to question and to re-examine experience. Art that does not set out to do this, which does no more than reassure or reaffirm, cannot be called art at all, but entertainment.…

  • Constantin Brancusi: the essence of things

    Tate Modern, London 29 January-23 May 2004

  • Louise Bourgeois

    At first, before encountering the installations at Tate Modern, it might seem surprising that this 89 years old sculptress be chosen for the opening: yet there are few sculptors today whose work could so dramatically fill the great void space…

  • The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka, ‘How it is’

    Miroslaw Balka has created an environment, a work using light-absorbing material across the walls of a storage container, for the purpose of experiencing darkness

  • Norbert Francis Attard

    Next month (September) should have seen the figure of St Peter suspended face downwards between two Doric pillars which flank the lost altar of St Peter’s Church in Liverpool, once the Catholic church of the Polish community in the city…

  • Gutai at Guggenheim

    In 1954, a period characterised by the harsh context of Japan’s post-war reconstruction, the Japanese artist and teacher Yoshihara Jirō founded The Gutai Art Association, which has become a community space for free experimental artistic proposals. During the 18 years…

  • Anita Glesta, New York “Navigating Memory, the Universe and Nothing”

    In the west there are two episodes of such magnitude and lasting devastation that stand out in the past 70 years: those of the bombing of Gernika, the Basque town on 26 April, in 1937, which killed 1,650 innocent people…

  • Anish Kapoor: Flashback

    Manchester Art Gallery 5 March–5 June 2011 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 19 November 2011–11 March 2012 A venue for the exhibition in Summer 2011 is to be announced.

  • Manet: Portraying Life

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 26 January–14 April 2013

  • Ruins in Reverse at Tate Modern

    Ruins in Reverse playfully explores the curious relationship between archaeology and fiction. Artists Rä di Martino, Pablo Hare, José Carlos Martinat, Haroon Mirza, Eliana Otta and Amalia Pica display artworks that deal with a contemporary notion of ruins. In No…

  • Yoko Ono’s 80th birthday

    The world famous conceptual artist Yoko Ono is celebrating her 80th birthday with a major exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Yoko Ono Half-A-Wind Show: A Retrospective brings together works dating from the 1960s, such as paintings that were…

  • Carl Andre: Mass and Matter

    “My ambition as an artist is to be the ‘Turner of matter’,” Carl Andre (born 1935) has said. “As Turner severed colour from depiction, so I attempt to sever matter from depiction.” As such, Andre became a leading artist in…