'Titian' is the first in a series of three exhibitions of Renaissance art to be held at the National...
I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myse...
Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art
In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of ...
London Review of Books — Shop, Bury Place, London, WC1
LRB has actually opened its own shop, in an amazing display of commercial acumen....
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) has long been recognised as one of Germany's leading 20th century artists...
How cities renew, rebuild & remember
Perhaps it was just a little ironic that, at a time when the bombing of Baghdad was in the offing, a...
Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
Giorgio de Chirico's (1888-1978) enigmatic, haunting paintings of deserted city squares, shadows, sl...
Achille Castiglioni: an obituary
The death of Achille Castiglioni towards the end of last year is a sad reminder that...
David Hockney: Painting on Paper
David Hockney: Painting on Paper at Annely Juda concentrates on the artist's dynamic new use of wat...
Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
Antony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles' is one of the most riveting projects by a British scu...
Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist
The British Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. If the present exhibition - Albrecht ...
Eva Hesse at Tate Modern is a wonderful, enigmatic exhibition that inspires a wide range of interpre...
Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition that the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, has eve...
The Aztec exhibition at the Royal Academy opened on 16 November and will run until 11 April 2003. Th...
Howard Hodgkin: Large Paintings 1984-2002
Howard Hodgkin is regarded as one of the most important artists in Britain working today...
There have been some carping comments in British art magazines, such as 'The Museum ...
Cy Twombly: Philosophy in Paint
The exhibition was a survey of 50 years of Twombly's career in the different media he has explored: ...
Australia is often out of synch with much of the rest of the world. The progressive Whitlam Labour e...
Artist as Peacemaker - Beyond Conflict
Beyond Conflict is a natural extension of the work of Richard Demarco in Edinburgh; he has spent his...
Despite the fact that Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have already become world-c...
Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology
For humans, change has always been essential, but difficult nonetheless. For most of...
The second scheme was essentially led by a brief by architect Arata Isozaki, in which Martha Schwart...
Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography
Unseen Vogue, an exhibition shown recently in the Design Museum, London that is also...
Painting, Passion and Politics: Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection
On loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 'Painting, Passion and Politics' is showing ...
An old tenement building close to the harbour in Valletta seems an unlikely location in which to lau...
Rapture: Art's seduction by fashion since 1970
Until visiting this exhibition I had, naively and unconsciously, assumed that contem...
Antony Gormley Drawing – book review
The new publication, Antony Gormley Drawing, reveals the working processes behind the sculptures of ...
Andrew Forge, who died on 4 September 2002 in New Milford, Connecticut, aged 78, was a prominent and...
Tate Modern, 21 September through 5 January 2003. The Barnett Newman exhibition has opened and is a ...
Millennium Bridge Gateshead – miles better. Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre of Wilkinson Eyre have ma...