Archive

Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain. National Gallery of Scotland, 2009

Paul Sandby (1731–1809) occupies a prominent position in British art of the 18th century in the practice of Landscape Art. This is nonetheless the first comprehensive exhibition of his work to cover the full range of the artist’s work over…
Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, London 2009

Tate Modern, London 1 October 2009–17 January 2010
The Sacred Made Real, National Gallery, London

Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700 National Gallery, London 21 October 2009–24 January 2010
Book review: Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales

Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales by Laure Adler and Élisa Lécosse
New Contemporaries 2009

10 November–20 December 2009 A Foundation, Rochelle School, London
Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers

The linguistic games of Take Care of Yourself, a highlight of the Venice Biennale in 2007 are now the centrepiece of Sophie Calle’s first UK retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery
Lucy Stein: Creemie Myopic Fables/Group Show: Purpling

In her third exhibition at Gimpel Fils, Lucy Stein’s ‘Creemie Myopic Fables’ challenges the pervasive visual stereotypes of raunch culture, addressing issues of female sexuality in Post Feminist culture
Frozen smiles, melting hearts: Frieze Art Fair 2009 America: New Painting and Sculpture

Regent’s Park, London 15–18 Oct 2009
Book review: Art and Text; Poor. Old. Tired. Horse

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 17 June–23 August 2009
Aida Tomescu: Paintings and Drawings

If anything, painting is life. It is one of the very few pure things in life. It has an existence in its own right.1 – Aida Tomescu (2006)
Remains and Remnants. Anselm Kiefer: The Fertile Crescent

Anselm Kiefer: The Fertile Crescent White Cube, Hoxton Square, London 16 October–14 November 2009
Grayson Perry: The Walthamstow Tapestry

After more than 20 years making pots Grayson Perry admits to no longer being the naïve craftsmen he once seemed. Winning the 2003 Turner prize and gaining a high degree of public status also seemed to remove any claims to…
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture

The Saatchi Gallery, London 29 May 2009–17 January 2010
Book review: MJ Long, Artists’ Studios

This book is something of a rarity today. It comes as a survey of the design of 14 ‘studios’, all for artists, plus one famous watering hole, the Ivy Restaurant in London, by the architect MJ Long. She is the…
The Not-So-Secret Language of Pins

Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box Museum of Arts and Design, New York 30 September 2009–31 January 2010
Making Art in Paradise. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design

Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design Japan Society, New York 9 October 2009–17 January 2010
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting

Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has been canonised as the output of a modern American master, but it shrugs off the labels that usually accompany such elevation: certain works or sequences are aligned with pop or conceptual art, but the majority resist…
Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium

Raven Row, London 4 September–1 November 2009
Book review: An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner

In this new and updated edition, the current publishers have produced a well-timed development of this classic work which first appeared in 1943 as a Pelican Paperback. The first line of the author’s Introduction was the famous, but now outdated…
Book review: Trevor Dannatt: Works and Words

Roger Stonehouse has wisely given vent to that additional talent, which reveals Dannatt’s inherent literacy, in a special supplement at the end of the book. Editions of the Architects Year Book of the 1960s wholly captured the vision and intrigue…
American Idyll – Jenny Watson

Galerie Transit, Brussels 6 September –11 October 2009
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust

They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust The Jewish Museum, New York City 10 May–1 October 2009
Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA

This exhibition sees a return to the ICA for Nashashibi, the first female artist to win their Beck’s Futures prize back in 2003. Since that date her work has undergone what seems to be a significant shift in direction, something…
The Enlightenments. Edinburgh International Festival 2009

Edinburgh International Festival 7 August–27 September 2009