Archive
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Aalto and America
Edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2012)
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John Bellany: A Passion For Life
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 17 November 2012–27 January 2013
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Do Ho Suh – Perfect Home
South Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Japan explores the artist’s ongoing theme of human identity and what “home” means to human experience through a body of works that take…
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Antipodean Springtime: Letter from Australia
September-October in Australia was intended to be entirely for family reasons and I made an effort to avoid work and therefore exhibitions. Impossible. As my book Contemporary Australian Drawing, (Metasenta/Macmillan) had just been launched in Melbourne, in June, regrettably in…
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Retelling history through art – an interview with Kimathi Donkor
Due to his ancestry, he was already familiar with the narratives, but had not had the chance to discover more about them through formal education. Struck by life stories that have been disclosed to him, he has incorporated the biography…
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An American In Paris: Edward Hopper Retrospective
Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Paris 10 October 2012–28 January 2013
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Pre-Raphaelites – Victorian Avant-Garde
Tate Britain, London 12 September 2012–13 January 2013
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The Liverpool Biennial 2012 – the UK Biennial of Contemporary Art
The Liverpool Biennial 2012 brings together dozens of different exhibitions comprising artworks by more than 240 artists. Launched in 1999 and now considered the largest Contemporary Visual Art Festival in the UK, the event that will run until 25 November…
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Irene Barberis: Apocalypse/Revelation: Re Looking (Feminale: the edge of logic, intersecting luminosities)
Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 13 October–11 November 2012
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ARCHIVE: Mario Merz interview
An interview by Caroline Tisdall (Translated by Caroline Tisdall from an interview held in London on 4 September 1975)
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Saying It
Freud Museum, London 19 September–18 November 2012
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Luc Tuymans: Allo! David Zwirner’s new London space
What better way to inaugurate American gallerist David Zwirner’s new London space (his first European location, and happily placed in a Georgian townhouse in the heart of Mayfair) than by loudly hailing “Allo!”?
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Innovating with the old – Frieze Masters 2012
Frieze Art Fair is now more than just one of the top international events of its kind. Creative business acumen has seen the brand amalgamate a range of events and new enterprises with ongoing success. Besides launching an affiliated show…
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Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture
Go Figure! is a two location exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, drawn from the Uli Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world, although the White Rabbit collection of Judith and Kerr…
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Turner Prize 2012 Exhibition
Tate Britain, London 2 October 2012–6 January 2013
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Taking a transnational picture: an interview with Maryam Najd
The meeting with Maryam Najd was an encounter of cultures. She, a fascinating artist who left her homeland in Iran and went to Belgium to study, and myself, a Brazilian who has been educated and lives in England. To complete…
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Lindsay Seers. Nowhere Less Now
Artangel commission The Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London 8 September–21 October 2012
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Philip Guston: Late Paintings
Inverleith House in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh is showing the late works of Philip Guston. Just nine works are given the luxury of space, bathed in natural light, making it an unusually reflective experience.
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Van Gogh To Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape In Europe 1880–1910
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July–14 October 2012
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
The paint, the plaster and the woodchips have settled on Art Basel week in Miami and the tally is mixed. The overall attendance totaled an impressive 50,000 visitors, with those (approximately half) not privy to a VIP pass paying an…
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Empress Of The Sun
Catherine the Great: An Enlightenment Empress National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 13 July– 21 October 2012
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Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War
Imperial War Museum, London 6 September–1 January 2013
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Klimt: Up Close And Personal: Paintings, Letters, Insights. Leopold Museum, Vienna
The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was the subject both of the exhibition Up Close and Personal at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, and the publication, reviewed here, which accompanied the exhibition
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Human history, and by extension the history of art, is a history of transfiguration, of translation, of constant modification. The assumption that we live in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, a continual shifting of one element of reality in relation…
