Category: Articles

  • You beaut country

    In his foreword to the exhibition, Julian Agnew extolls the virtues of Australian culture:

  • Hieronymus Bosch

    Rotterdam, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, through 11 November 2001.

  • Comment on September 11

    Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the present, their ramifications. No apocalyptic event before September was enacted in full view of almost the whole world. Billions of people watched on television as one of the…

  • Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

    The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in smaller spaces.…

  • Jewish Museum in Berlin opens Exhibition

    Jewish Museum in Berlin opens exhibition

  • Surviving fragment

    Philippe de Montebello, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has emerged as one of the strongest supporters of the idea that a monument should be created with the surviving fragment of one wall of the World…

  • Michael Andrews revisited

    If there was ever a clearer purpose and definition of the respective rationale behind the division of Tate works into Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the present retrospective of the painter Michael Andrews is a reassuring touchstone. Whereas  (not even…

  • Balthus

    Palazzo Grassi, Venice through January 2002

  • September Eleventh: European thoughts

    The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by the most sophisticated high technology is one. As John Bloom, who saw it from below, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, it was the skilled,…

  • Experiment Experiencia: Art in Brazil 1958-2000

    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, through 21 October 2001.

  • Milton Avery Late Works — Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951–1963

    Avery never achieved the critical acclaim that he deserved in his lifetime, and yet his pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism is unquestioned. Avery is very much a painter’s painter, and exerted great influence on the generation of…

  • Ed Ruscha: The Mountains

    Inverleith House, Edinburgh, through 14 October 2001.

  • Goodbye Culture

    The latest blow is the emasculation (yes, Germaine) of critique on television. Mark Lawson is a current victim. Because it’s Edinburgh Festival and Fringe Time, Kirsty Wark replaces Collings as the presenter of the Newsnight Arts Review. The assumption that…

  • Hello Culture

    Matthew Collings’ masterly series on British television (Channel 4) has essentially redrawn the role of the medium in assessing cultural values. An appropriate, 21st century lope through the flowing, eddying pressures of media on historical cultures, the series should have…

  • Dan Flavin

    Serpentine Gallery, London, through 23 September 2001.

  • Illusion – Japanese Photography

    ‘Illusion – Japanese photography’ at the Kulturhuset consists of the work of eleven Japanese photographers connected by a ‘surrealistic, dream-like quality’. The photographs on display are intended to act as ‘an exposé of Japanese photography from the 1930s up to…

  • The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller

    The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, through 9 September

  • Peter Fuller: Image for Sale

    Peter Fuller: image for sale Phillips Salesroom, Edinburgh Tragic story. Portrait of Peter Fuller by John Bellany

  • Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods

    Musee d’Art Ancien et Contemporain, Epinal, France through 20 August 2001

  • A marriage, a home

    Bradford city will be the home of the newly conjoined collections of the Royal Photographic Society and of the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television. Lord Puttnam, matchmaker of this inspired marriage, and appointed Trustee, commented, ‘When two unique…

  • Retrieving Durer

    This week historic drawings valued at over DM 30 million have been returned to the Bremen Kunstwerein, their original home. Albrecht Durer’s ‘The Women’s Bathhouse’ — a masterly depiction of nude females enjoying their ablutions — has long been missed.…

  • National Gallery completes Masaccio ‘jigsaw’

    Neil McGregor, Director, has achieved a remarkable re-composition: Masaccio’s ‘Virgin and Child’ of 1426 (this year is the 600th anniversary of the artist’s birth) which comprises a central panel (‘Virgin and Child’) owned by the Gallery, along with the ‘Adoration…

  • National Gallery windfall

    Mark Getty, with his uncle Gordon Getty, has given 10 million to the National Gallery, London. Mark is the creator of Getty Images, one of the world’s major digital archives. He is one of two sons of Sir Paul Getty’s…

  • Niklaus Pevsner Celebrated

    The English sensibility over architecture today has been shaped more by Sir Niklaus Pevsner than anyone it seems. He wrote, or jointly authored, some 42 volumes of The Buildings of England, county by county, before dying in l983. This magnificent…