Category: Articles

  • Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s

    The Guggenheim is to be congratulated for tackling the complex subject of the German artists’ group Zero, and the international network of artists with whom they forged connections, in an attempt to change the face of postwar art

  • Encountering the Astronomical Sublime: Vintage Nasa Photographs 1961-1980

    With distance comes sublime beauty, and with space travel our world is something magnificent to behold. For many, space travel is also an impossible dream, to be viewed and lived vicariously through the imagined lives of astronauts. As the vintage…

  • Yuri Pattison: Free Traveller

    Yuri Pattison’s exhibition Free Traveller at Cell Project Space is an unconventional look at the state of internet technology. Pattison explores alternative platforms, contemporary power structures and the limits and bounds to the networks we rely on

  • Sensation and Sensuality: Rubens and his Legacy

    This true gem of an exhibition shows not only Rubens’ vast creativeness, but the incredible artistic influence he bestowed on those who sought to follow him

  • Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

    Ralph Fasanella’s paintings, on view at the American Folk Art Museum, record US history from the point of view of a life-long New Yorker, the son of Italian immigrants, a union organiser whose passion was the working class and social…

  • Crossing the Line 2: Drawing in the Middle East

    Crossing the Line was a conference that brought together specialists to examine the role of drawing in the Middle East with the aim of breaking down the cultural barriers to personal expression

  • Fu Site: Politicians

    Working with layers of mixed media on paper and canvas, Fu Site, whose exhibition Politicians is at the Galerie Paris-Beijing, plucks characters out of the pages of magazines and places them into his dark world of corruption and confusion

  • The Present of Modernism

    The Present of Modernism at Vienna’s Mumok compares works from the original movement alongside early abstract art, futurist work and contemporary pieces that recall related ideas. In so doing, it opens up a dialogue between past and present, but the…

  • Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: persistances

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s immersive installations merge movement and sound and extract the musical potential from the seemingly banal soundtrack of quotidian life

  • Retrospective Exhibition Constantin Meunier (1831-1905)

    Constantin Meunier is now mostly remembered for his bronze statues of industrial workers, but this retrospective concentrates on 30 years’ worth of drawings, paintings and sketches that led up to his later career

  • Jasper Johns: Regrets

    Jasper Johns’ new works at the Courtauld Gallery, Regrets, take inspiration from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the photographer John Deakin. The result is a powerful, if enigmatic exhibition

  • The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered

    The latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery seeks to strip back the layers of 16th-century portraiture to reveal the hidden secrets of the royal image in Tudor England

  • David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring

    David Hockney’s drawings and prints of English wooded lawns and leafy alleys now on show at the Pace Gallery in New York City not only demonstrate his technical mastery but illustrate why he is eternally popular

  • Arnulf Rainer: Retrospective

    In a thrilling career-spanning retrospective, Arnulf Rainer proves that art can be revelatory through shock and humour, but we may not be comfortable with what it reveals

  • Daniel Buren: Comme Un Jeu d’Enfant / Like Child’s Play, Work In Situ

    Daniel Buren’s transformation of Strasbourg’s Musée d’Art Moderne et Comtemporain demonstrates his powerful use of colour. It is hard not to be moved by this meditative installation

  • Maryam Najd: Accuracy & Balance – West

    In her work, painter Maryam Najd, who was born in Iran but now lives in Belgium, explores whether the prevalence of the naked female form in the west really represents emancipation

  • The Digital Revolution and the beginning of New Media Art

    From the ICA’s landmark 1968 show Cybernetic Serendipity through Pac-Man and Mario Bros to the latest offering from Will.i.am, the Barbican’s interactive exhibition demonstrates how computers and technological development have changed the face of art

  • Rui Macedo: Memorabilia

    In this exhibition, the Portuguese painter Rui Macedo not only questions the historical place of modernism, but visually re-evaluates the history that came before it, playing with perspective, illusion and trompe l’oeil

  • Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art

    In its Arts Annual: Fine Art, Newark Museum was true to its roots. A wide array of theses, media and materials by 40 culturally diverse local artists of all ages showed that the museum is sensitive to the times and…

  • Katie Paterson: Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon)

    Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston, Edinburgh 31 July – 28 September 2014 Katie Paterson’s lunar meditation on music, technology and imperfection reassesses our place in the cosmos and how far art can extend our view

  • Rossetti’s Obsession: Images of Jane Morris

    This small but enchanting exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs of the pre-Raphaelite beauty Jane Morris explores the role she played as the muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  • Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia

    From austere family portraits of the 1860s to Rodchenko’s Stalinist propaganda posters and the subversive underground images of the 1960s and 70s, this elegant Photographers’ Gallery exhibition takes us through a century of Russia’s history

  • Micro-Events: Tsuneko Taniuchi

    Blurring the line between reality and fiction, performance artist Tsuneko Taniuchi tries to change our preconceptions of society through “Micro-Events” that include her dressing as a homeless bag lady and taking part in mass weddings

  • The lives of the women behind the Zero artists

    Strong Women For Art: In Conversation with Anna Lenz Published by Hirmer, 2013