Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend
As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic movements of the twe...
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's most significant artists. The National Gallery, London is showing a...
Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others
The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary ...
James 'Athenian' Stuart, who was born in 1731 and died in 1788, is a far less well-known figure in t...
Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?
Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was someth...
Flying into Denver airport, the Rockies rise high in the distance, a constant reminder of the fronti...
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction
For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the arti...
London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil
London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of 'The Devil Wears Prada', starring Mery...
Kerry James Marshall: Along the Way
Finishing its last call on 22 October 2006 was the exhibition entitled 'Along the Way', covering the...
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design
No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leon...
Jeremy Gardiner: Ancient Landscapes/The Poetry of Crisis
Benjamin Britten, together with the other founders of the English Opera Group, chose Aldeburgh as th...
Jon Schueler: A Painter of Our Time
John Bellany's (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced i...
Joseph Beuys Collection, Museum Schloss Moyland
Driving through the landscape of the north Rhine on the Dutch-German border is an almost mystical ex...
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
The work of Simeon Solomon is celebrated at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to mark the centen...
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Like a Dog Returns to its Vomit
With characteristic self-assurance and thoroughly post-modern irony, Jake and Dinos Chapman get thei...
This quasi-retrospective exhibition of the work of Jannis Kounellis at Modern Art Oxford is a remark...
Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
Joseph Beuys tested the international art world to breaking point throughout his car...
At first, before encountering the installations at Tate Modern, it might seem surprising that this 8...
Australian artist Ken Done's third exhibition of paintings is currently showing at the Rebecca Hossa...
There is an innocent quality about the photographs of Jacque Henri Lartigue, an honesty and openness...
Jellicoe to Jencks: New landscapes, new allegories.
Two highly significant but very different landscape and garden theorists are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (...
There is a beautiful film called 'England: Home and Beauty' that is a testament to the glamour of th...
Art First in London have been showing the work of one of South Africa's most significant and interes...
James Rosenquist at 70? It is hard to believe that he has already reached such an age. In New York r...
John Piper in the 1930s - Abstraction on the Beach
Dulwich Picture Gallery marks the centenary of John Piper's birth with a major exhibition devoted to...
I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myse...
London Review of Books — Shop, Bury Place, London, WC1
LRB has actually opened its own shop, in an amazing display of commercial acumen....
There have been some carping comments in British art magazines, such as 'The Museum ...
The second scheme was essentially led by a brief by architect Arata Isozaki, in which Martha Schwart...
Kassel Documenta is commonly compared to the Olympic games, but, being an inhabitant of former Easte...