Archive
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Sickert Today – Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910
Tate Britain, London 5 October 2005-15 January 2006
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The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes
Geffrye Museum, London 18 October 2005-19 February 2006
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Russian horizons of the Sahara
Last month, on the shore of the Sahara salt lake at Siwa, a distant oasis, a sailing boat some 20 ft long made its maiden voyage. The vessel is a work by two Russian contemporary artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,…
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Blood Red Suns and Bright Yellow Moons – Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
Tate Modern, London 3 November 2005-5 February 2006
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Book review: RUSSIA!
The exhibition has covered 900 years of Russian art, to varying degrees. This is backed by a sevenfold résumé of its historical development, divided in this publication into periods in the traditional mould. In the Introduction, James Billington refers to…
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Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
The work of Simeon Solomon is celebrated at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to mark the centenary of his death.
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005
The Curve, Barbican, London 16 November 2005-8 January 2006
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MF Husain: The Lost Continent
The Arts House, Singapore 6-11 October 2005
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Ends Middles Beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects – book review
Jonathan Hale. London: Black Dog Publishing, 1995 ISBN: 190477217X
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Obsessive Drawing
American Folk Art Museum, New York 14 September 2005 – 19 March 2006 In its current exhibition, which opened in September 2005, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City explores the infinite expressive potential of line through the…
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Eileen Gray at the Design Museum, London 2005
Design Museum, London 17 September 2005-8 January, 2006
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Jake and Dinos Chapman: Like a Dog Returns to its Vomit
White Cube Gallery, London 19 October-3 December 2005
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The Sculpture of William Turnbull – book review
William Turnbull remains an important survivor of the British generation of sculptors whose early career was, for the most part, interrupted by war service. In his case, this episode helped to broaden his human and cultural experience. As an RAF…
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Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious
Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith. Antique Collectors Club in Association with the Fry Art Gallery, 2005 ISBN 1851495002
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De La Warr Pavilion
Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reached the English Channel, and where the wind blew with such strength that it was almost impossible to stand up, was a marvellous…
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All the Fun of the Fair: Frieze Art Fair 2005
Regent’s Park, London 21-24 October 2005
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Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: Self, Life, Death
Barbican Art Gallery, London 6 October-22 January 2006
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China’s Artistic Evolution, Then and Now China: Crossroads of Culture Follow me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium
China’s current rush to globalise its economy and, to some extent, its culture, is affecting all aspects of its society, especially the arts. The present situation is bringing about dramatic change, but it is not the first time in China’s…
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Up Ending
Following the excitement over the Stirling Prize (see above), it is pleasant to observe that the work illustrated by artist Simon Starling, entitled ‘Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2)’, has been shortlisted, not for the Stirling Prize, but for the Turner…
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Diane Arbus: Revelations
Diane Arbus’s first retrospective exhibit in 1972 – several months after her suicide – shocked the public while mythologising the artist.
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Gauguin’s Vision
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 6 July–2 October 2005
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Visuality and Biblical Text: Interpreting Velázquez’ ‘Christ with Martha and Mary’ as a Test Case
Jane Boyd, Philip F Esler Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2004 €76, 156pp This beautifully produced and accessible book, a subject of much media interest, showcases what its authors consider to be a new method of artistic interpretation with reference…
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Pop Culture on Repeat
White Cube, London 7 September-8 October 2005
