Barbara Kruger, American artist and political activist, is exhibiting in Scotland f...
Andy Warhol is best known for his iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Kenne...
'The Chief' stares from posters advertising 'Africa Remix'. He sits on a cheetah skin upholstered ar...
'Childe Hassam chronicled New York City and New England during the turn of the 20th century. One of ...
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo...
The sacred purpose of art is to invite us to question and to re-examine experience. Art that does no...
Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust
Artists, like everyone else, die leaving legacies and estates, which they hope can safeguard both th...
Book review: Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion
This important publication, edited by the director of Dumbarton Oaks, Michel Conan, fills a vital ga...
Christo's Gates: a New Yorker reflects
What began in 1979 with a few drawings has finally materialised into a huge 'happening' in New York,...
William Scott (1913-89) enjoyed a long and highly successful creative life and, in t...
Degas said of himself that he would like to be 'illustrious and unknown', and he succeeded; by 1900 ...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney recently celebrated the work of Charles Conder, the las...
A Sense of Place: Three Artists
An artist's relationship with a particular place is a constant in art; Cézanne's paintings of Mont ...
Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials – The great Turbine Hall at Tate Modern seems to evoke an Aladdin's ca...
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution
With suitable training, it is possible to date a previously unseen artefact within a couple of decad...
Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective
Two parallel exhibitions of the work of the greatest British 20th century photographer provide a tim...
Awesome the group has been, for they have become a 20th century phenomenon. The total revision of ar...
Video artist Bill Viola's work reinforces the notion that a work of art will only yield its deepest ...
A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe - Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de...
In 1999 Prada launched the "Epicentre Store" programme to examine different ways of reinventing the ...
Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist
The work of Ashley Havinden is on show at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. Havinden was a major force ...
Tensta Art Gallery is situated in one of the most segregated suburbs of Stockholm. The gallery is re...
Craigie Aitchison – Two important exhibitions overlapped recently in England: the first was in Ken...
Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G
Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. ...
In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant ...
Tate Britain's important exhibition of Bridget Riley's painting ends later this month. This is a ful...
A recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American In...
Book review: Where's My Space Age? The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design
This beautifully designed book charts the influence of the space craze on Western cu...
Adventures in Art: Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (published 2003) is the most recent title in Prestel's lis...
Achille Castiglioni: an obituary
The death of Achille Castiglioni towards the end of last year is a sad reminder that...
Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
Antony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles' is one of the most riveting projects by a British scu...