An American in London: Whistler and the Thames
“Oh Fantin, I know so little – things do not go quickly!”, wrote James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia
Beyond El Dorado seeks to cut through the myth of the golden city, but the reality is no less captiv...
A Traveller in Time, from Standing Stones to the Distant Stars: an intervi...
In the 1990s, Japanese multimedia artist Mariko Mori became known for her performance-based photogra...
After I had seen Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta’s travelling multimedia installation Gernika/G...
Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm
These days we take for granted the irony of using destruction as part of art, employed by movements ...
Andy Warhol: Pop, Power and Politics
Warhol was one of the first artists to recognise the truly spectacular side of politics in the democ...
Chris Burden: Extreme Measures
Chris Burden, we learn from the flood of promotional material accompanying this fine show, his first...
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013
This is the fifth Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition. When Unesco held its International ...
Despite leaving behind an archive of over 1,000 slides and 60 films, as well as myriad drawings and ...
Australia at the Royal Academy is the largest and possibly most important exhibition of Australian a...
A picture of ArtRio 2013: An invitation to think about Art Fairs
The third ArtRio, which took place earlier this month, spanned five massive warehouses in Rio de Jan...
Black Performance as Visual Art
Black performance needs no introduction. However, this is usually true with theatre, music and dance...
The pictures of Russian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) have the simple charm of folk and fairy tal...
Calligraffiti: 1984/2013 – the art happening that launched the New York ...
A vibrant collaboration between Jeffrey Deitch, who curated the show, and Leila Heller, the longtime...
The exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron’s portraits and allegorical scenes currently on view at t...
Between Spiritual and Material Spaces: the Photographic World of the Gao B...
Sense of Space – Wake...
American Modern – A Canon Revived
The recently opened American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe in the Museum of Modern Art is arranged in...
All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again
This major exhibition of works by Jockum Nordström [b.1963] explores the breadth of his work in col...
Since he was brought to public attention at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC with the 1982 exhi...
Bedwyr Williams is currently representing Wales at the Venice Biennale with The Starry Messenger. He...
Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s
With the explosive emergence of the London club scene in the 1980s came a new generation of fashion ...
Two exhibitions of Chagall’s paintings overlap this summer, though surprisingly they have quite li...
Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has enjoyed the status of one of Europe’s most prominent collecto...
Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures
Like most of Viola’s work, each series of videos in this exhibition hovers on an edge of some sort...
Coming Soon: Qatar and the Emirates
Linked by a coastline, by ambition, by energy and by sudden wealth, Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are p...
Architecture for All, Without Limits: Toyo Ito at 72
One of the superstar architects of the century, Toyo Ito, who turns 72 in June, said he now faces a ...
A Choice Collection of Latin American Art Comes Home
Working in the shadow of majestic Royal Palm trees, a team of architects, curators and artists engag...
Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, is showing Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings...
An Exhibition to See: Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art ...
The Chinese artist, Xu Bing (b. 1955), is internationally acclaimed for his ability to challenge peo...
An exhibition of 11 paintings made between 1992 and 2009 by the late Catalan artist, Antoni Tàpies ...