Category: Articles
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Gerhard Richter: Paintings from private collections – book review
Edinburgh’s National Gallery was indeed fortunate to receive the above exhibition following showings in Baden-Baden and then, Beijing, earlier in 2008. Reviewing the Catalogue is to appreciate a valuable tool to understanding the more salient tendencies of Richter’s work. This…
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Francis Bacon at Tate Britain
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospective since 1985, enabling a re-assessment of his work, although the exhibitions in Edinburgh, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads (2005) and Norwich, Francis Bacon…
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The House Of Books Has No Windows
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The House Of Books Has No Windows 15 October–18 January, Modern Art Oxford Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller like telling stories. The narrative impetus propels their multi-media installations. It engages the…
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A Creative Transatlantic Tango Shapes the Modern World: Paris/New York, 1925-1940
Museum of the City of New York 3 October 2008–22 February 2009
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Haunch of Venison, London 15 October–29 November 2008
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Gerhard Richter
The Scottish National Gallery complex on The Mound 8 November 2008-4 January 2009
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Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
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Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture
The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert communities in the 1970s and 1980s reveals a series of ironies, which enable contemporary indigenous art in Australia to be better understood. The works themselves are superb, as…
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Robin Rhode. Who Saw Who and Through the Gate
Who Saw Who 7 October–7 December 2008, Hayward Gallery, London Through the Gate 26 November 2008–10 January 2009, White Cube, London Robin Rhode is charting new ground as a talented, mixed-race South African artist, who pushes the boundaries of drawing…
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Colony Room closing time?
A glorious hub for artists, dilettantes and drunks for the past 60 years, the Colony Room in Soho now faces imminent closure. Brawls and protests have inevitably ensued, parties have been planned to pay for legal fees and some members…
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Cold War Modern
Victoria & Albert Museum, London 25 September 2008-11 January 2009
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Mark Rothko: the ‘end of philosophy, the beginning of art’
26 September 2008-1 February 2009 Tate Modern, London
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Book review: The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan and North America
Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore and Yasuko Suga (eds) Kent: Global Oriental Ltd, 2008
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Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
National Museum of Australia, Canberra 22 August-12 October 2008
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Two seekers of light – Ammi Phillips and Mark Rothko – meet in Manhattan
American Folk Art Museum, Manhattan 7 October 2008 – 29 March 2009
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Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative
Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this year. Paul Overy was a well-recognised author dealing with 20th-century art and architecture
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Nine Green Bottles: ‘Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964’
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 16 September-14 December 2008
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Medium or rare: the art-market grill
It has been a curious coincidence that the extraordinary Damien Hirst sale took place just before global finances collapsed. It might have happened on a different planet. Yet it has been possible, now both dustbowls have settled momentarily, to weigh…
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Book review: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
A new biographical study of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) is most timely. The historical importance of this remarkable polymath has been in need of revision for four decades or more
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To Die For, images of Castle Howard on a certain day
Photographic images by Nick Howard Castle Howard, Yorkshire 1 September-30 December 2008 ‘To Die For’ at Castle Howard in Yorkshire presents 13 large photographs by Nick Howard taken in 99 minutes between 7:26 and 9:05 on 19 October 2007. The…
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Phyllis Lambert and the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Phyllis Lambert is now in her 81st year and her long life is particularly associated with two buildings: the Seagram Building in New York and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. In the creation of both, she played…
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Museums in the 21st century
The Louisiana Museum in Denmark offers a quiet, liminal space for contemplation, isolated from everyday reality.1 It is a place where a modern, circular white gallery turns to a wooded landscape of sculptures, overlooking The Sound towards Sweden in a…
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Richard Demarco, Edinburgh International Festival, 2008
It may be a product of age or lack of funding and proper premises but, whatever the reason, Richard Demarco’s activities during the most vibrant period of the Edinburgh Festival appear to be somewhat diminished. Perhaps when one comes to…
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Oscar Munoz: the Presence of the Absence
Mirror Image Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London 13 June-27 July 2008
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