Category: Articles

  • 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…