Category: Articles

  • Obsessive Drawing

    American Folk Art Museum, New York 14 September 2005 – 19 March 2006 In its current exhibition, which opened in September 2005, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City explores the infinite expressive potential of line through the…

  • Jake and Dinos Chapman: Like a Dog Returns to its Vomit

    White Cube Gallery, London 19 October-3 December 2005

  • De La Warr Pavilion

    Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reached the English Channel, and where the wind blew with such strength that it was almost impossible to stand up, was a marvellous…

  • Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious

    Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith. Antique Collectors Club in Association with the Fry Art Gallery, 2005 ISBN 1851495002

  • The Sculpture of William Turnbull – book review

    William Turnbull remains an important survivor of the British generation of sculptors whose early career was, for the most part, interrupted by war service. In his case, this episode helped to broaden his human and cultural experience. As an RAF…

  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: Self, Life, Death

    Barbican Art Gallery, London 6 October-22 January 2006

  • All the Fun of the Fair: Frieze Art Fair 2005

    Regent’s Park, London 21-24 October 2005

  • Up Ending

    Following the excitement over the Stirling Prize (see above), it is pleasant to observe that the work illustrated by artist Simon Starling, entitled ‘Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2)’, has been shortlisted, not for the Stirling Prize, but for the Turner…

  • China’s Artistic Evolution, Then and Now China: Crossroads of Culture Follow me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium

    China’s current rush to globalise its economy and, to some extent, its culture, is affecting all aspects of its society, especially the arts. The present situation is bringing about dramatic change, but it is not the first time in China’s…

  • Diane Arbus: Revelations

    Diane Arbus’s first retrospective exhibit in 1972 – several months after her suicide – shocked the public while mythologising the artist.

  • Gauguin’s Vision

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 6 July–2 October 2005

  • Visuality and Biblical Text: Interpreting Velázquez’ ‘Christ with Martha and Mary’ as a Test Case

    Jane Boyd, Philip F Esler Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2004 €76, 156pp This beautifully produced and accessible book, a subject of much media interest, showcases what its authors consider to be a new method of artistic interpretation with reference…

  • Pop Culture on Repeat

    White Cube, London 7 September-8 October 2005

  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2005

    For the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year

  • Narcissus Self-Exposed

    Narcissus Self-Exposed Seldom has there been such a display of self-portraiture as the Edvard Munch exhibition just opened at the Royal Academy in London. Munch’s creative self-obsession has perhaps never been captured to such a degree before, culminating in the…

  • Patrick Caulfield CBE RA

    Patrick Caulfield has died in London (29 September 2005). Modest in his disposition and profoundly meticulous in his art, he graduated from the Royal College Of Art a year later than the ‘golden’ trio of David Hockney, RB Kitaj and…

  • Saatchi Building Dispute

    Saatchi Building Dispute The current running dispute between Charles Saatchi and the property owners of the former London County Hall represents a case between Shirayama Shokusan, freeholder of the Riverside Building, a part of the old County Hall, and Cadogan…

  • Sublimity at Tate Modern

    Sublimity at Tate Modern At last, the great main space (formerly the Turbine Hall) at Tate Modern has an installation worthy of its gargantuan promise. Like some reconstituted Giant’s Causeway, the sculpture spreads over, and above, the entire space. The…

  • Zaha Embedded

    The new garden extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum at Charlottenlund, just west of Copenhagen, shows world-renowned, Iraqi-born, British architect, Zaha Hadid, in a new, more landscape-oriented mood and it suits her architecture.

  • The Chichu Art Museum

    Since the first inception of museums in the late 18th century, we have, until the present day, seen the development of three different generations of museum. First-generation museums, such as the Louvre, were built upon royalties for their own collection.…

  • Cecily Brown: Paintings

    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 28 June-28 August 2005

  • Seeking Paradise

    Ian Hamilton Finlay: Sentences Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 29 July-23 October 2005 When the artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, first came to Stoneypath, in south-west Scotland in 1968, the buildings were ruinous and the moorland inhospitable. But he introduced…

  • Chinese Cries and Whispers

    In the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new China show, visitors are endeavouring to interpret ‘Between Past and Future’, as the title of the exhibition goes; in the form of live tableaux of heroic human groups photographed as a sceptical ‘dig’…

  • More Jungle Stories

    ‘Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris’, sponsored by Aviva plc, opens at Tate Modern on 3 November 2005. This is the world of Rousseau’s jungle paintings, which had so enthralled the art world since he first sprang to fame in Paris…