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 ...
For millions of people, The Wizard of Oz brings to mind the 1939 MGM movie musical starring Judy Gar...
Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art
The contemporary comic genre contains many novel and sophisticated artistic expressions. Art Spiegel...
The Architecture of the Last Empire
The past decade has seen a growing interest in the British Indian Empire and its inner social and ec...
The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art – book review
The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral is a gallop through art history from ...
The power and efficiency of the modern marketing industry is now, perhaps, at its height; but many o...
The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail
The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has genera...
Sculptural Architecture in Austria
This masterly exhibition has been organised with the support of, and in co-operation with, the Feder...
Stillness in Motion: The Photographs of Fan Ho
The small but intriguing selection of photographs by Chinese photographer and filmmaker Fan Ho, on v...
Shaping the American Landscape: Church, Homer and Moran
During the second half of the 19th century, three artists played pivotal roles in shaping how Americ...
Troubled Waters: Kara Walker's Visual Epiphanies
Kara Walker functions as both subject and curator of a current exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Mu...
The Terribly Human Tomi Ungerer
Today, Tomi Ungerer is among Europe's best-known commercial artists but has been largely forgotten ...
The Istanbul Modern Art Museum
The Istanbul Modern can be hard to find. It is still new enough that taxi drivers are not quite sure...
The Trees for the Wood - the Enigmatic Genius of Jacob van Ruisdael
There is major significance in Seymour Slive's excellent exhibition currently showing in the Sackler...
Tom Hunter, Living in Hell and Other Stories
Since 1997, Tom Hunter has turned his camera on his surrounding neighbourhood of Hackney, showing em...
The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – book reiew
Taiwanese artist Jimmy Liao's transformation from veteran of the advertising industry to illustrator...
The Gao Xingjian Experience: A Personal Journey to the Infinite
'The Gao Xingjian Experience' is the first retrospective art exhibition in Asia of the celebrated mu...
To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!
The same may be true of Russian art, as anyone who was lucky enough to see the recent exhibition, 'R...
Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Radical educational establishment and sanctuary of the avant-garde in art, music, poetry and dance, ...