Frank Gehry - Maggie's Centre, Dundee
On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry's very late...
Craigie Aitchison – Two important exhibitions overlapped recently in England: the first was in Ken...
Paula Rego: Jane Eyre and Other Stories
Reaction to the Iraqi War in the West has been strangely muted among artists. In England, Paula Rego...
Winifred Nicholson in Scotland
The first exhibition to fully survey the work of Winifred Nicholson was staged by the Tate Gallery i...
Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G
Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. ...
In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant ...
Tate Britain's important exhibition of Bridget Riley's painting ends later this month. This is a ful...
Monet: The Seine and the sea, 1878-1883
Of the best exhibitions at the Edinburgh International Festival this year, Monet is at once the most...
Picasso's designs for Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes
The Edinburgh Festival is not always as strong in the visual arts as it is in the range of excellent...
Daniel Libeskind: Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück
Daniel Libeskind won the competition to build the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück, Germany...
Marc Chagall: Ceramic Masterpieces
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a storyteller with a magical dimension. His popularity ...
To accompany the exhibition Max Beckmann, a collaboration between the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate M...
A recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American In...
Book review: Where's My Space Age? The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design
This beautifully designed book charts the influence of the space craze on Western cu...
The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures
As part of the British Museum's 250th anniversary, The Museum of the Mind', explores how the creatio...
Adventures in Art: Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (published 2003) is the most recent title in Prestel's lis...
This compact and beautifully illustrated book concentrates on the essential aspects ...
Two new exhibitions of new work by Frank Stella recently opened in London and New York....
Last year the National Portrait Gallery in London put together an exhibition of over 100 works by ph...
The 100th anniversary this year of the Venice Biennale will probably not be its last. But then it’...
Outsider Art comes Full Circle – 'John the Painter'
'Outsider Artists' are not only untrained, but have also avoided 'social conditioning and cultural i...
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...
The superb exhibition now filling four rooms of the Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy, London, is ap...
'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...