Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist
The British Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. If the present exhibition - Albrecht ...
The Aztec exhibition at the Royal Academy opened on 16 November and will run until 11 April 2003. Th...
Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint
The exhibition was a survey of 50 years of Twombly's career in the different media he has explored: ...
Artist as Peacemaker - Beyond Conflict
Beyond Conflict is a natural extension of the work of Richard Demarco in Edinburgh; he has spent his...
Antony Gormley Drawing – book review
The new publication, Antony Gormley Drawing, reveals the working processes behind the sculptures of ...
Andrew Forge, who died on 4 September 2002 in New Milford, Connecticut, aged 78, was a prominent and...
Tate Modern, 21 September through 5 January 2003. The Barnett Newman exhibition has opened and is a ...
Accountancy as terrorism: 'Christie Malry's Own Double Entry'
Accountancy as terrorism: 'Christie Malry's Own Double Entry' – All over Hollywood, producers and ...
Mel Gooding's new book on Ceri Richards, the first major publication on his work, establishes that R...
Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany
Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany – In 2002 this famous project stands complete as perhaps...
Ansel Adams' images are as fundamental to the narrative of the American West as the films of John Fo...
Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany – Masterwork Revisited
Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany. Masterwork Revisited: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & P...
Callum Innes wins Jerwood Prize
It has been announced that Callum Innes, a devout minimalist painter whose monochromatic statements ...
Brit Art from the Fifties: the reality versus the myth
Just after the war, when France had Picasso and Matisse, Giacometti and Existentialism, and Britain ...
A pelican in the wilderness – book review
A short review does not do justice to this splendid publication by novelist Isabel Colegate, publish...
Body Worlds: Fascination Beneath the Surface
Body Worlds exhibits human corpses: skinned, gutted, flayed, peeled, shelled, filleted, opened up ...
American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880
In the opening column of the curator Andrew Wilton’s excellent catalogue summary, The Sublime in t...
February sees the end of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Danish a...
Andy Warhol: A retrospective at Tate Modern
A series of major exhibitions are planned in association with the British Tourist Authority to bring...
Anthony d'Offay's recent and sudden announcement of closure seems shocking, if characteristically my...
September 11, 2001 – Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the pre...
The painter Balthus died aged 93 in February this year. He was born in l908 as Balthasar Klossowski ...
Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods
A remarkable exhibition has just opened in a remote town of the Vosges mountain area of north-we...
Although hardly a 'movement' in the conventional sense, Arte Povera has stayed in the mind of a ...
City exhibitions are not new. In 1977 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris embarked upon a great series of...
Caravaggio: The Genius of Rome
It might seem churlish to criticise an exhibition which has been dedicated to the late Francis Haske...
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art – The exhibition contains the work of thirteen i...
L'Idea del Bello (Beauty as an idea); Le Jardine 2000; La Beauté; Enclosed and Enchanted;...
Bill Viola is included in the National Gallery's exhibition 'Encounters', which was sponsored by Mor...
Caravaggio: A Contemporary View by John Berger, Vol 196 No 998 1983.
Once I was asked to name my favourite painter. I hesitated, searching for the least knowing, most tr...