Category: Articles

  • Irene Barberis: Apocalypse/Revelation: Re Looking (Feminale: the edge of logic, intersecting luminosities)

    Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 13 October–11 November 2012

  • ARCHIVE: Mario Merz interview

    An interview by Caroline Tisdall (Translated by Caroline Tisdall from an interview held in London on 4 September 1975)

  • Saying It

    Freud Museum, London 19 September–18 November 2012

  • Luc Tuymans: Allo! David Zwirner’s new London space

    What better way to inaugurate American gallerist David Zwirner’s new London space (his first European location, and happily placed in a Georgian townhouse in the heart of Mayfair) than by loudly hailing “Allo!”?

  • Innovating with the old – Frieze Masters 2012

    Frieze Art Fair is now more than just one of the top international events of its kind. Creative business acumen has seen the brand amalgamate a range of events and new enterprises with ongoing success. Besides launching an affiliated show…

  • Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture

    Go Figure! is a two location exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, drawn from the Uli Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world, although the White Rabbit collection of Judith and Kerr…

  • Turner Prize 2012 Exhibition

    Tate Britain, London 2 October 2012–6 January 2013

  • Lindsay Seers. Nowhere Less Now

    Artangel commission The Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London 8 September–21 October 2012

  • Philip Guston: Late Paintings

    Inverleith House in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh is showing the late works of Philip Guston. Just nine works are given the luxury of space, bathed in natural light, making it an unusually reflective experience.

  • Van Gogh To Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape In Europe 1880–1910

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July–14 October 2012

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

    The paint, the plaster and the woodchips have settled on Art Basel week in Miami and the tally is mixed. The overall attendance totaled an impressive 50,000 visitors, with those (approximately half) not privy to a VIP pass paying an…

  • Empress Of The Sun

    Catherine the Great: An Enlightenment Empress National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 13 July– 21 October 2012

  • Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War

    Imperial War Museum, London 6 September–1 January 2013

  • Klimt: Up Close And Personal: Paintings, Letters, Insights. Leopold Museum, Vienna

    The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was the subject both of the exhibition Up Close and Personal at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, and the publication, reviewed here, which accompanied the exhibition

  • Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

    Human history, and by extension the history of art, is a history of transfiguration, of translation, of constant modification. The assumption that we live in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, a continual shifting of one element of reality in relation…

  • Munch: The Problem With Women

    This timely showing of 60 various graphics in all, some six of which are from the Gallery’s own collection, focuses on Munch’s lithographs, woodcuts, dry-point prints plus one etching, from the years 1895–1915. Here therefore, is a compelling cross-section of…

  • A Redefining Moment in the History of Native American Art

    Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 26 June–21 October 2012

  • A Delicate Game of Cat-and-Mouse

    The experience of art is not merely a matter of looking at it, but thinking and talking about it. For nearly 50 years, English critic and biographer Michael Peppiatt has been getting artists to talk about the art they create,…

  • Between Embodiment and Identity

    King’s College has purchased the East Wing of Somerset House – a row of Georgian buildings next to the Temple hidden behind the College’s street front. While photographs of eminent alumni (from Thomas Hardy to Desmond Tutu) cover the Strand…

  • The Making of an “It” Girl

    Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York 18 January–8 April 2012

  • Toby Ziegler

    Ziegler’s current show at Simon Lee follows two other successful solo exhibitions, most recently The Alienation of Objects at 176 in London, as well as several group exhibitions from Finland to China. His work fuses enchanting, pale detachment with a…

  • The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-War Painters

    The phrase “School of London” has frequently been applied to the artists showcased in Haunch of Venison’s latest exhibition, Mystery of Appearance, ever since R B Kitaj first used the term in relation to post-war British painting in 1976. Yet…

  • Francesco Clemente: Mandala for Crusoe

    Blain Southern, 4 Hanover Square, London 30 November 2012–26 January 2013

  • Celebrating Life at The Chelsea Hotel with Painter David Remfry

    During its salad days after opening in 1884, the place hosted such luminaries as Mark Twain, Lillie Langtry and O. Henry. Later struggling artists flocked to the place where they could exchange artwork for overdue rent. Many of these treasures,…