Category: Articles

  • Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective

    Tate Modern, London 21 February–27 May 2013

  • Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess

    Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 23 March–21 April 2013

  • Un Lugar sin Reposo/A Place with no Rest

    The Guatemalan photographer Luis González Palma, now a resident of Argentina, has a solo exhibition opening at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC, at the end of the month. AMA’s mission is to show artists whose…

  • Kara Walker’s Silhouettes

    The Art Institute of Chicago has inaugurated a newly commissioned installation, Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!, made by American artist Kara Walker, who is known for her use of simple black cut-paper silhouettes to explore provocative themes. With her shadowy…

  • Monir Farmanfarmaian 2004–2013

    Work created in the last decade by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is the focus of a show at The Third Line, a contemporary Middle Eastern art gallery in Dubai. Nearly 90 years old, Farmanfarmaian still tirelessly produces her eclectic…

  • Antoni Tàpies

    Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 7 March–13 April 2013

  • A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition

    Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013

  • Joe Tilson: A Survey

    Marlborough Fine Art, London 6 March–5 April 2013

  • Schwitters In Britain

    Tate Britain, London 30 January–12 May 2013

  • Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

    To celebrate its 15th anniversary year, the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is hosting a career-spanning exhibition of one of its most popular artists: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). Focusing on his works on paper, and including around 80 drawings, watercolours…

  • Charles Harrison in Retrospect

    Charles Harrison: Looking Back Published by Ridinghouse, London, 2011

  • Susan Hiller: Channels

    Matt’s Gallery, London 13 February–14 April 2013

  • Jay Defeo: a Retrospective

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 February–2 June 2013

  • Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread

    Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Modern, the Turbine Hall. Her white landscape of cubic boxes offers the museum-goer something of a dreamland

  • Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist

    The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a ‘poetic conceptualism’, Watson draws from a range of idiosyncratic experiences and predilections, all of which seem to be linked to his intimate knowledge of…

  • Tan Dun’s ‘Visual Music’

    Shanghai Gallery of Art, April – May 2005 My first encounter with Tan Dun was through his multimedia concerto grosso ‘The Map’ last October in Shanghai. He still used the usual western musical instruments, however, what left a deep impression…

  • Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint

    Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint Cy Twombly Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 9 August-27 October 2002.

  • Frank Stella

    Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 29 April–31 May 2003. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 8 May–18 June 2003. Two new exhibitions of new work by Frank Stella recently opened in London and New York. The Bernard Jacobson Gallery showed works named…

  • David Smith: Personage

    Gagosian Gallery, London 2 November-9 December 2006

  • Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others

    The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Works by Giacometti, Fontana, Twombly and Serra, leave no doubt of the pre-eminence of Richard Serra. This article discusses previous works by Serra…

  • Richard Serra in London

    Latterly, in the last quarter of 2008, their young architect David Kohn was involved, on site, in raising the actual new-built height of the internal volume of the spacious new gallery off Kings Cross to match the size of Serra’s…

  • Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

    In the artist’s most comprehensive survey to date, Roni Horn fuses image and text to enable contemplation of the impact of the water and weather on human identity, in an exhibition that will be adapted to the light and architecture…

  • Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland

    5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…

  • Rodin

    Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 September 2006-1 January 2007