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  • Kahlo: The Enigma of Lost Times

    The most bewildering aspect of this new exhibition featuring the work of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo (1907-l954), is that of lost time. Partly, this is caused by the slowness of the cataloguing of her effects, comprising 25,000 letters and 180…

  • John Bellany

    John Bellany Whether in his adopted Italian village of Barga in Northern Tuscany, in the hamlet of Garfagna nearby where he actually has his home, or in Cambridge or Edinburgh, where his many friends and admirers hang out, the news…

  • Hop, Skip and Jump in the Art Markets

  • Eduardo Vale

    The death of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was not a surprise: the survival of his massive physique defeated all prognostications as he continued in a cognitive, silent, almost robotic mode for months following his initial stroke. And yet, it seemed he…

  • Basquiat, Brooklyn Museum, New York

    On 11 March 2005, the Brooklyn Museum in New York opened its ‘Basquiat’ exhibition. Located in the Morris A and Meyer Schapiro wing on the fourth and fifth floors of the museum, the exhibit includes more than 100 works dating…

  • The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures

    Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 29 March – 19 June 2005

  • A Century of Ceramics: A Selection of 20th Century Potters and Potteries in the Isle of Wight

    Lisa and Andrew Dowden, Robin Goodredge. London: 2005 £28, ISBN 0-9548745-1-X This is an exceptional example, in the realm of crafts, of a small island community seizing the initiative to promote their home-grown potteries industry through a publication. This has…

  • Brooklyn Tulip

    On 11 May 2005, a celebration to mark the installation of ‘Tulips’, a painted aluminium sculpture by English sculptor, painter and novelist Edwina Sandys, took place at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. The sculpture is composed of three, carefully…

  • Matisse, His Art and His Textiles. The Fabric of Dreams

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 5 March – 30 May 2005

  • The International Asian Art Fair

    Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City 1-6 April 2005