Eva Hesse: Studiowork. Camden Arts Centre, London 2009
Currently showing at the Camden Arts Centre are a number of experimental objects or works-in-progres...
Frozen smiles, melting hearts: Frieze Art Fair 2009 America: New Painting...
In his seminal essay...
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has been canonised as the output of a modern American master, but it shrugs off...
Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium
It seems to be the close season for Paolozziana at the moment, notwithstanding the presence in Tate ...
Futurism at Tate Modern (Futurismo ma no Futurisme)
The most memorable ever Futurist exhibition took place in Venice, as long ago as l986. Entitled Futu...
Designs On at the University of Dundee
The exhibition Designs On at the University of Dundee was conceived as part of the conference V&A at...
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion
The highly idyllic nature of the Romantic tradition in philosophy, art, music, literature and theatr...
Francis Bacon at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospectiv...
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
This exhibition reaches Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival of Art, having travelled via three U...
Fourteen years after Derek Jarman's death, this exhibition, together with a season of films at three...
When Marcel Duchamp met Francis Picabia in September 1911, it was the start of a friendship that wou...
Face to Face - The Daros Collections
'Face to Face' presents the two facets, or faces, of the Daros Collections, finding similarities bet...
In the closing years of the seventeenth century, the youthful Peter the Great toured western Europe ...
It is now three months since the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NMCA) in Manhattan's Lower East Sid...
From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the 'W...
Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge
In 2007, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City embarked on a series of exhibits examining way...
In only five years, Frieze has gone from a standing start to being a major fixture in the art world ...
The British Museum has taken the opportunity of the current celebration of 60 years of Indian indepe...
Francesca Woodman's photographs have consistently garnered critical attention since her premature de...
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz
Pallant House's current exhibition celebrates the way in which music sustained and inspired abstract...
Documenta 12: 'Documenta as it never was'
'Documenta', the quinquennial international exhibition of contemporary art, is less strong this year...
Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
'Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress', now on at the Design Museum in London, where text (apart from c...
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein...
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson G...
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...
In a well-established American tradition of dedicated artists, David Smith the sculptor came to be l...
Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory
Daniel Buren has had a stimulating and now distinguished continuity in Britain. The arrival of his e...
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating tourin...
The Frieze Art Fair is many things: a spectacle, a film festival, a four-day extravaganza of talks, ...