Category: Articles
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The Pot of Gold at the Other Side of the Atlantic. Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
Museum of the City of New York 25 October 2011–20 February 2012
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
National Gallery, London 9 November 2011–5 February 2012 by ANGERIA RIGAMONTI di CUTÒ According to the famously unreliable Giorgio Vasari, when Leonardo’s drawing of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist was displayed in a…
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Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 19 October 2011–8 January 2012
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Reality and Romance
Iconic images of war and martyrdom present very different sides of the same coin
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Andrew Antoniou: Theatre of Chance and Enchantment
Andrew Antoniou’s recent exhibition at Australian Galleries, Sydney shows his enduring fascination with a symbolist language, a theatrical masquerade of human experience and folly. His curious characters from the imagination can be seen to enact private rituals. The most recent…
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Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 11 October–26 November 2011
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Colour and Substance
Bermondsey Street these days exudes a growing calm satisfaction: a local Tate, its own “village festival”, antiques and farmers’ markets, the looming tower of the Shard. Estate agents’ windows are filled with warehouse conversions sporting exposed wooden beam ceilings, and…
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Rachel Howard: Folie à Deux
Blain|Southern, London 12 October–22 December 2011
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
The enigma of Gerhard Richter is not here resolved by Tate Modern’s new exhibition. Yet the exhibition is, as is now usual at Tate Modern, very well curated
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Power of Making
A V&A and Crafts Council exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 6 September 2011–2 January 2012
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The Spirit of Tariki Visits New York
Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers Japan Society Gallery, New York 16 September–18 December 2011
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From Timbuktu to Shangri-La
Daphne Guinness The Museum at FIT, 16 September 2011–7 January 2012
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A Futuristic Architectural Movement from the Past Speaks to the Present
Metabolism, the City of the Future Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 17 September 2011–15 January 2012
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John Martin: Apocalypse
Tate Britain, London 21 September 2011–15 January 2012
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Post Office or Postmodern? Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 September 2011–15 January 2012
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From Neon to New Order. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 September 2011–15 January 2012
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Marius Bercea
Studio International spoke to Bercea about the medium of painting and its relationship to history, time and geographic context, questioning if and how the Cluj School can be defined
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Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965
Sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941–2009) is associated with instantly recognisable, over-sized bronze hares that mock the gravitas of formalism and conceptual art of the past 40 years. It is his early work however, that is the focus of Tate Britain’s show,…
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Rothko in Britain
Whitechapel Gallery, London 9 September 2011–26 February 2012
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Some kind of magic in the King
Fold: Lee Patterson Stour Valley Arts, Kent 10 September 2011
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Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 9 July–8 October 2011
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Every Day is a Good Day. The Visual Art of John Cage
In 1952 David Tudor performed a piece by John Cage that existed in the absence of musical notation. The piece was entitled 4’33”. Tudor’s performance of this piece involved his sitting at the piano, opening the lid, turning the pages…
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The 43 Uses of Drawing
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum’s The 43 Uses of Drawing, curated by the practitioners’ researchers and teachers Paul Cureton and Craig Staff, explores the practice of drawing beyond the paper surface, via the work of 43 practitioners working in a…
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Abstraction and Atonality: Wassily Kandinsky, Franti
František Kupka (1871–1957) is generally recognised to be the best-known Czech artist from the 20th century, and Museum Kampa in Prague is proud to house one of the largest private collections of his work
