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...
Kazimir Malevich – The Blackest Square
The fourth 'Black Square' by Kazimir Malevich belonging to Inkombank, which collapsed during the fin...
The year 2000 in Sydney was a hard act to follow. Every cynic - and there were many ...
Ever since the Treaty of Nangking opened Shanghai to foreign trade in 1842, the city...
The new book on Ken Kiff joins Thames and Hudson's list of finely produced, readable monographs....
Letter from Stockholm, September 2001
The newly opened memorial for Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947) is a significant event in Stockholm...
London comment: e-letter from London
The sudden departure of Chief Curator Lars Nittve from the Tate Modern in July suggested that all wa...
The world of the imagination, like that of the dream has attracted many twentieth century artists, f...
Ken Done - Opera house and bridge
Ken Done – To Sydneysiders and visitors alike the man-made structures of the Harbour Bridge and th...