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...
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 ...
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...
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'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...
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...
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...
The paintings of Edward Hopper have come to represent a quintessentially American experience - highl...
Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabul...
With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging...
Everchanging mirage - Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills
Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills – Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage ...
In 1969 Studio International allowed Donald Judd to air his grievances towards the art world in an a...
Eric Ravilious, the renowned English painter of the pre-war decade, was killed in 1943 aged 39 while...
FACE UP - Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Ba...
At the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin, an important exhibition is showing w...
The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17–20 Oct...