Are You A Lolita? Japan Fashion Now

From avant-garde bag ladies and Asian Ivy-Leaguers to folksy Forest Girls and fashion-eating Lolitas...

Claude Monet

Having attended the Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais on a regular morning like any other paying ...

Barbara Kruger Site Specific Installation

Caught in the back and forth flow of the gaze. “… the AGO has commissioned renowned American art...

Alice Neel: Painted Truths

In 1984 Robert Mapplethorpe photographed Alice Neel, then in her 85th year. With her eyes closed and...

Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists

In Edinburgh this summer, coinciding with the Fringe Festival at first, and then extending into next...

Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries

A great deal turns upon the evaluation of the authenticity and provenance of an art work. In today...

Colour Country: Art from the Roper River

Colour Country: art from Roper River is showing in its final venue in Darwin, in Australia...

Beauty that is Always Strange. Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, N...

The proliferation of Japanese-style comics (manga), rapidly expanding international audiences for th...

Book review: Walk to the Moon: The Story of Albert Houthuesen

Richard Nathanson...

Anticipating Avatar?

This timely exhibition reminds us how prodigiously his work then developed, and deals with his sculp...

A little Madness in the spring. Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry of F...

In any season, a visit to the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) provides ample glimpses of nature...

Brad Pitt’s Initiative. Making It Right: New Houses at New Orleans’ Lo...

Brad Pitt’s Make it Right housing neighbourhood reconstruction initiative for New Orleans is not t...

Book review: George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco

An apt setting for the first major exhibit covering Art Deco designer George Barbier's full range of...

Book review: Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage. By ...

Published to accompany a travelling exhibit originating at the Art Institute of Chicago in fall 2009...

Book review: Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier

Subtitled Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity, this book is an important new ad...

CRASH (Homage to JG Ballard)

One aim of CRASH...

Chris Ofili at Tate Britain

Chris Ofili’s mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is a crowd pleaser, and this is no bad thin...

Book review: Architecture in Times of Need. Make it Right. Rebuilding New ...

This volume represents a unique documentation of an aid venture led by actor/philanthropist Brad Pit...

Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010. Rock Stars, Politics and Ingenious...

This is the third year of the Design Museum...

Art Bin: Landyfill

Since emerging from Goldsmiths at the beginning of the last major recession, Michael Landy has pursu...

Book review: Passion City: STraum a. Landscape Architecture

The authors of this book are the landscape design practice STraum a. based in Berlin. Kristin Feirei...

Book review: Maker of Dreams, the Mother of them All. Madeleine Vionnet, ...

Since the 1939 closing of her maison, Vionnet has been eclipsed in fashion histories by more colourf...

Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy

Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy at The Royal Scottish Academy this January is an exhibition of monumen...

A Human Museum Without Walls. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey

Now at its third stop, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City, the multi-city exhibit ...