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  • Kazimir Malevich – The Blackest Square

    The fourth ‘Black Square’ by Kazimir Malevich belonging to Inkombank, which collapsed during the financial crisis in 1998, is now exhibited in the Hermitage. This icon of modernism found its final sanctuary among the masterpieces at the Hermitage exactly in…

  • Skythian baba: A painting counter-revolution

    Natalia Goncharova: The Russian Years. Russian Museum, Benois Wing, St. Petersburg. From 25 April to 15 July, 2002.

  • Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation

    In vast contrast to Tate Modern’s Warhol exhibition earlier this year, the Picasso Matisse which is about to open and other blockbuster museum exhibitions, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation at the Hayward Gallery was not only a beautifully curated…

  • Turner Prize 2002

    As rumoured, Madonna really will be presenting the 2001 Turner Prize on 9 December in London. This is an amazing coup for the organisers. ‘La Ciccione’ is the perfect choice for an award now saturated with popular culture. Short-listed artists…

  • News from the Royal Academy

    The Royal Academy, London, is much in the news. First of all, esteemed chairperson Sir Anthony Tennant has been under pressure to ‘do the gentlemanly thing’ and tender his resignation following his involvement in the New York auction scam which…

  • Un aventura again?

    The most famous air disaster of the month occurred in Milan where a private pilot flew into the Pirelli Building, the world-famous 32-storey tower designed by the late Italian master architect Gio Ponti. Ironically, 3 May sees the opening of…

  • Manhattan blues

    The Whitney remains a great American Institution, but after two consecutive plunges, its policy needs a radical overhaul. This is a seminal period for the nation’s creativity, when major redefinitions are occurring across the arts spectrum in music, literature and…

  • Fridge woman frozen

    , snowman and other items: RA Summer Exhibition 2002

  • Royal academician fights media moguls for royalties

    Peter Blake, veteran RA and distinguished painter, is justifiably famous for his record sleeve icon designed for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The famous cover certainly helped promote the music. The amazing thing is that EMI never coughed up…

  • Brit Art from the Fifties: the reality versus the myth

    Just after the war, when France had Picasso and Matisse, Giacometti and Existentialism, and Britain could only summon up the shadows of the Ecole de Paris and the ghosts of surrealism, tutors at the Slade School of Fine Art in…