Archive

Paintings Past and Present from the New English Art Club

Messum’s Gallery, London 19 May–3 July 2010
Picasso: Peace and Freedom

Tate Liverpool 21 May–30 August 2010
Book review: Walk to the Moon: The Story of Albert Houthuesen

The clown is a rich cultural symbol in Western art representing a plethora of ideas and identities. It has been used by the artist as a form of self-portraiture to allude to the role of art as critic, dissenter, outcast,…
The architecture of hope: Maggie’s cancer caring centres

The Maggie’s Centres are a remarkable, altruistic phenomenon, something all too rare in the architecture of our new age.
Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings

The British Museum, London 22 April–25 July 2010
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present Museum of Modern Art, New York March 14–May 31, 2010
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty

Tate Modern, London 13 October 2009–10 January 2010
A little Madness in the spring. Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers

Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers New York Botanical Garden 30 April–13 June 2010
Jerwood Contemporary Painters

Now in its final year, Jerwood Contemporary Painters opens a window on to the diverse practice of 24 emerging artists. The exhibition brings their vibrant works together under the light of a crisp white gallery. All have graduated from UK…
Brad Pitt’s Initiative. Making It Right: New Houses at New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

Brad Pitt’s Make it Right housing neighbourhood reconstruction initiative for New Orleans is not the first ever solution to follow a catastrophe, but it is the most ingenious
Rubens, Van Dyck and Flemish Art

National Museum, Stockholm 23 February–23 May 2010
Ronchamp at sixty: Le Corbusier’s timeless legacy

The Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier at Ronchamp was built between 1950 and 1956. A small, white building that lies conspicuous and easily visible on its knoll for many miles around, it signifies even from afar…
Frances Walker: Works on Paper

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2 April–30 June 2010
George Gittoes: Descendence stories, from Night Vision, The Diaries

Artist and film-maker, George Gittoes has shown new paintings the Descendence series (2009–2010) in his Berlin studio to mark the end of the year he has spent there, before returning to the Tribal Belt of Pakistan
Book review: George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco

George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco, by Barbara Martorelli (Marsilio Editori, 2008; distributed in the US by Rizzoli, September 2009)
Book review: A Year in Architecture

Compiled by Claudia Stauble and Jonathan Lee Fox Prestel, London and New York, 2009
Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection

Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection Japan Society, New York 12 March-13 June 2010
Book review: Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage. By Elizabeth Siegel

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage By Elizabeth Siegel Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009
Book review: Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier

Subtitled Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity, this book is an important new addition to the discourse, and theory of architecture, art, and visual studies, as the publisher rightly avers, and not merely architecture. The author pursues the issue…
CRASH (Homage to JG Ballard)

Decode: Digital Design Sensations V&A Museum, London 8 December 2009–11 April 2010
CRASH (Homage to JG Ballard)

Gagosian Gallery, London 11 February–1 April, 2010
Drawn Identities: Pepsi, Shakers and Tattoos

Leonardo’s drawing books contain as many words as images, probably more. When words failed him, images took over and when an image did not do the job adequately, his pen moved on to shape words in support.
MAVEN Commission: Jenny Holzer Collaboration

Jenny Holzer’s conceptual works Blue Purple Tilt (2007), Protect, Protect, Shape the Battlefield (2007) and Purpose (Yellow, White) (2007) were on display as part of the Tate Gallery’s Artist Rooms scheme, in Woking Surrey. There, Blue, Purple, Tilt has become…
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters

Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 January–18 April 2010