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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...

David Hockney Portraits

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...

David Smith: Personage

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...

Francis Bacon in the 1950s

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating tourin...

Frieze Art Fair 2006

The Frieze Art Fair is many things: a spectacle, a film festival, a four-day extravaganza of talks, ...

French Book Art/Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue

'Never give into routine; at each step, through books or in a wider context, everything must begin a...

Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes

Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes – Edgar Degas is well known as a painter of the human figure. One...

Dada Revisited for the 21st Century

It is not often that an art exhibition ascends to the condition of a total artwork in itself, and at...

Ettore Sottsass: Architect & Designer – book review

Perhaps the most surprising statement in this book (at least for a European) is that Ettore Sottsass...

Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion – book review

So many of the works of Egon Schiele owe their existence to the numerous taboos constraining artists...

Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era

The exhibition 'Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era' has succeeded...

Fashion in Colors

Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context...

Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul

'I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly ...

Daniel Roth: The Well

London is a place continually remade by writers and artists, layering their own versions and theorie...

Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Mod...

Eileen Gray at the Design Museum, London 2005

Eileen Gray's furniture has become well known ever since the London-based architect, designer and re...

De La Warr Pavilion

Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reac...

Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious

The world of Eric Ravilious has received renewed attention in the past five years. Particularly nota...

Ends Middles Beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects – book review

This practice biography (a more appropriate term than 'monograph' (which is over-used and misunderst...

Diane Arbus: Revelations

Diane Arbus's first retrospective exhibit in 1972 - several months after her suicide - shocked the p...

Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads

Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads – The loss of faith in humanity in the late 1940s was such that...

Festival Connections - 179th RSA Annual Exhibition

The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh has a particular advantage over the Royal Academy of Arts in...

Frida Kahlo

The first major exhibition of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, showing this summer at Tate Modern, has b...

Finland: Modern Architectures in History – book review

The awakening of modernism in the 1880s in Finland, as in other European nations, was first felt thr...

From Kirchner to Kandinsky: German Expressionism in Dutch Museums 1919-1964

In summer 2005, the new art gallery in the Groninger Museum is showing an excellent exhibition deali...

Design and Engineering

James Dyson's resignation as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Design Museum in London is a ...

Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and Function - Realised Visions of a Cosmopolit...

What better venue could there be for an exhibition of the work of Erich Mendelsohn than the De La Wa...

Edward Hopper

The paintings of Edward Hopper have come to represent a quintessentially American experience - highl...

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