The current winter show at the National Gallery, London, perhaps springs from mixed motives. Firstly...
The One and the Many: Carlos Ortiz and the Dance of Life
For Nuyorican artist Carlos Ortiz, the seeds for a series of personal epiphanies were planted while ...
Towers: from Manhattan to Moscow
Renzo Piano's New York Times Building, situated on 8th Avenue, Manhattan, was opened this month to c...
The 52nd Venice Biennale ended on 21 November 2007. It will have presented an enormous challenge to ...
The Apparitions of a Surrealist Eye: Dalí & Film
Salvador Dalí's involvement with film was profound and critical to his artistic sensibilities...
This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volu...
Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective
This is the first major retrospective of Sidney Nolan's paintings since his death in 1992. It presen...
This is an outstanding international exhibition, dedicated to a significant section of contemporary ...
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007
The Royal Academy in summertime is a national institution. As well as the Summer Exhibition this yea...
The photography divisions of the major American art museums are currently besotted with glamour. The...
Sharon Booma's Odes and Intimations of Immortality
The seductive allure of Sharon Booma's paintings defies description. Viewing one of the artist's oil...
'The Naked Portrait' explores the genre of naked portraiture and brings together many of the most si...
London's refurbished Royal Festival Hall (RFH) is this month reopened to the public with a star-stud...
The Prado Museum in Madrid has stolen a march on all other competitors in achieving a major new retr...
The Real World of Abstractionism: Arshile Gorky and the Supremacy of the F...
France annually celebrates a country with which it feels an affinity, and 2007 is the year of 'Arm...
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
'The Unknown Monet' is the first exhibition devoted to the pastels and drawings of Claude Monet. Eig...
Sol LeWitt: the Mystic Conceptualist
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
The Deformation Man: David Lynch's Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis
David Lynch's productions are guided by the theme of metamorphosis. Beginning with his early works, ...
The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Mar...
For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. Duri...
Sixties Iconoclastic Art and its Representation
The Sixties, arguably, has been the most idealised decade to emerge out of the 20th century. And, mo...
Steven Holl: America's Best Architect
The USA has lately found and recognised the real successor to Frank Gehry in a new generation. This ...
Founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour, Magnum Photo...
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and reading...
Tales of two cities: Berlin, Dresden
These are stirring times for architecture 'watchers' in Germany's two famous cities; Berlin, the cap...
The experience of being deaf was integral to the poignant portraits painted by John Brewster Jr. In ...
Simply Artful, Simply Functional, Simply Droog
The word 'Droog' (pronounced 'droach' with a hard 'ch' as in the word 'loch') has a number of relate...
Treasures of the Ming Dynasty are Unearthed in Jingdezhen
In its recent exhibit of Ming Dynasty porcelains, the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology...
Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)
This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the ...
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For millions of people, The Wizard of Oz brings to mind the 1939 MGM movie musical starring Judy Gar...
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