Contemporary Artists Embrace a 'Radical' Tradition
In recent years, traditional handcrafts, particularly knitting, have experienced a boom and drawn a ...
Flying into Denver airport, the Rockies rise high in the distance, a constant reminder of the fronti...
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment
Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, pub...
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein...
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely....
Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Dome...
On 20 February 2007, a remarkable exhibition opened at the Geffrye Museum in East London, accompanie...
Anish Kapoor: Artist of Smoke, Air and Space
Anish Kapoor is the man behind one of the most expensive public sculptures in the world - the US$23 ...
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...
Anselm Kiefer: Aperiatur Terra
Anselm Kiefer's London exhibition at White Cube, 'Aperiatur Terra', takes a quote from the Book of I...
Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition
Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). Th...
In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst's murderm...
A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, th...
Sixties Iconoclastic Art and its Representation
The Sixties, arguably, has been the most idealised decade to emerge out of the 20th century. And, mo...
A Singular Artist Brings a Singular Work to South America
Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, in 1954, sculptor Anish Kapoor has lived in London since his youth. ...
Wrestling with the Angel in the Modern Age
For most of human history, art works were centred on the beliefs of a group and clearly expressed th...
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830
The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting 'Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolu...
Steven Holl: America's Best Architect
The USA has lately found and recognised the real successor to Frank Gehry in a new generation. This ...
William Roberts: England at Play
The new Pallant House Gallery was described and reviewed on this website in 2006. The magnificent Wi...
At Frieze Art Fair, Saskia Sassen spoke compellingly about how artists can find potential in underus...
Founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour, Magnum Photo...
Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and reading...
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and reading...
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson G...
The development of architecture specifically for cancer outpatient healthcare has been pioneered in ...
Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings
The work of American painter Brice Marden is currently showing in a major retrospective at the Museu...
The Miami Art Fair has surely reached its zenith now that Karen Wright, the formidable Editor of Mod...
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 ...
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...
A decade ago, setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electr...