Studio International

Published 01/07/2011

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The House Of Books Has No Windows

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The House Of Books Has No Windows

Janet Ca...

Original atelier plaster mock-up of a detail from the bronze relief by Alfred Auguste Janniot for La Maison Française, New York, c. 1930. Courtesy Collection Martin du Louvre, Paris and Fonds Janniot

A Creative Transatlantic Tango Shapes the Modern World: Paris/New York, 19...

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A Creative Transatlant...

Matsumoto Hafu (b. 1952) <em>Outsize flower basket</em>, 2008. Bamboo, approximately 20 x 31 in. Collection of Saito Masamitsu. Photo: Tsuyoshi Inui.

A maturing craft becomes art: Japan Society's Joe Earle discusses the new ...

True to its mission, Japan Society and its vi...

Roger Hiorns. Seizure. Artangel commission and production. Photograph: Nick Cobbing.

Roger Hiorns: Seizure

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Roger Hiorns: Seizure

151-189 Harper Road, London

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, <em>Reporters with borders, Male-Female</em>, 2007. C-prints 159 x 105 cm, 62.65 x 41.37 inches. Courtesy of Haunch of Venison

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

A treatise on the pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria illustrates the working of various mechanical automata: a w...

Gerhard Richter.<em> Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting), </em>1992. Oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm, signed and dated on reverse. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden © Gerhard Richter. Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Gerhard Richter

The paintings of Gerhard Richter were first exhibited in Britain as part of the official 1970 Edinburgh Internatio...

A close-up of the entrance sign plaque demonstrating innovative use of traditional indigenous materials in a contemporary context.

Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Established in 1928, the China Academy of Art is the first comprehensive ar...

Neville Japangardi Poulson, <em>Janganpa Jukurrpa </em>(<em>M</em><em>arsupial mouse Dreaming</em>), 1986. Batik on cotton, 259.5 x 85.0 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Peter and Thea Toyne, Members, 1995 © Neville Napangardi Poulson Courtesy of Warlukurlangu Artists, NT

Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture

The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert co...

Robin Rhode. Brick Face (2008), Photographic series. Copyright Robin Rhode, Courtesy the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Robin Rhode. Who Saw Who and Through the Gate

Who Saw Who
 7 October–7 December 2008, Hayward Gallery, Londo...

Save Our Planet, Save Our Cities poster featuring Richard Buckminster Fuller's Dome Over Manhattan scheme of the early 1960s, 1971. Unknown designer © V&A Images

Cold War Modern

It seems incredible that the battle to win people's hearts and minds during the cold war that divided Europe and mu...

Mark Rothko. <em>Black on Maroon, Sketch for "Mural No.6", </em>1958. Mixed media on canvas, 266.7 x 381.2 cm. Tate. Presented by the artist through the American Federation of Arts 1968 © 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Mark Rothko: the 'end of philosophy, the beginning of art'

The current exhibition at the Tate Modern enables Studio Internation...

The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North America

Book review: The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North Am...

In December 1888, a small group of British travellers s...