Category: Articles

  • ARCHITECTURE + CERAMICS = SCULPTURE

    Nicholas Rena and Matthew Smith: Proving Ground New ceramic vessels by Nicholas Rena with paintings by Matthew Smith

  • The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture

    Saatchi Gallery, London 27 May–16 October 2011

  • A maturing craft becomes art: Japan Society’s Joe Earle discusses the new shape of bamboo

    New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters 4 October 2008-11 January 2009 Japan Society, New York City The first bamboo basket maker known to have signed his work, Hayakawa Shôkosai, was born in 1815. From his staking claim to an identity as…

  • In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses

    Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…

  • Modern British Sculpture

    The Royal Academy of Arts, London 22 January–7 April 2011

  • Anticipating Avatar?

    Lynn Chadwick: Works 1969–1988 Beaux Arts Gallery, London 19 May–19 June 2010

  • Richard Long: Heaven and Water

    Tate Britain, London 3 June–6 September 2009

  • Richard Long: Walking and Marking

    National Galleries of Scotland 30 June-21 October 2007 The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Edinburgh, in time for the Edinburgh Festival 2007, is currently staging an outstanding recent retrospective exhibition on Richard Long. There is a curious irony…

  • Jannis Kounellis

    Modern Art Oxford 15 December 2004 – 20 March 2005 This quasi-retrospective exhibition of the work of Jannis Kounellis at Modern Art Oxford is a remarkable opportunity to reassess the continuing significance of this outstanding artist. Kounellis was born in…

  • A Singular Artist Brings a Singular Work to South America

    An interview with Anish Kapoor by Caroline Menezes Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, in 1954, sculptor Anish Kapoor has lived in London since his youth. Kapoor represented Great Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale, was awarded the 1991 Turner Prize,…

  • Anish Kapoor: Leviathan

    Much has been said about the work of Anish Kapoor and his trajectory has made him one of the most important sculptors working today. Kapoor, who works incessantly, always finds a way to overwhelm the public. This time he has…

  • Anish Kapoor: Artist of Smoke, Air and Space

    Anish Kapoor is the man behind one of the most expensive public sculptures in the world – the US$23 million, 33-feet high, 110-ton polished stainless steel curved plate called ‘Cloud Gate’ (2004), which is located in AT&T Plaza in Millennium…

  • Roger Hiorns: Seizure

    151-189 Harper Road, London 3 September-2 November 2008 Harper Road is an unremarkable south London street, flanked by the blocks of large post-war housing estates, convenience stores, a new mosque and a small park. Yet one low-rise council house, derelict…

  • When Attitudes become Form

    Eva Hesse Tate Modern, London, 13 November 2002 until 9 March 2003.

  • Henry Moore

    Tate Britain, London, 24 February–8 August 2010

  • Mind and Body

    The early work of Antony Gormley Antony Gormley (b.1950) is best known for his massive sculpture Angel of the North (1998) and Field for the British Isle (1993) both of which are testaments to the exciting work that Gormley creates.His…

  • The Armory Show 2013

    New York City 7–10 March 2013

  • A Highly Calculated Affair: Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity

    Musée d’Orsay, Paris 25 September 2012 – 20 January 2013 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 26 February – 27 May 2013 Art Institute of Chicago 26 June – 22 September 2013

  • Antony Gormley: Blind Light

    Hayward Gallery, London 17 May-19 August 2007 An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wide range of Gormley’s ideas. Earlier work is important, and given due precedence. But this exhibition seems…

  • Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles

    British Museum, London, 15 November 2002-26 January 2003 Antony Gormley’s ‘Field for the British Isles’ is one of the most riveting projects by a British sculptor. Made up of 40,000 small terracotta figures, it is now on show at the…

  • Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend

    ‘I seek truth. What I seek is anything that will work for me. I’ll use a lie if it works, and that [becomes] the truth.’ Louise Nevelson As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic…

  • l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti

    l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti Centre Pompidou, Paris 17 October 2007-11 February 2008

  • Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art

    Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection Museum of Arts and Design, New York 18 May-10 September 2006 The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobby and back again.…

  • Donald Judd

    Tate Modern, London 5 February-25 April 2004 Though a failure as a societal ethic, simplicity has nevertheless exercised a powerful influence on the complex patterns of American culture. As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual…