Tag: America

  • Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’

    The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse

  • Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?

    Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was something of a maverick but in time came to be revered on both sides of the Atlantic. On 6 March 2007, the renowned French sociologist and philosopher…

  • Shaping the American Landscape: Church, Homer and Moran

    During the second half of the 19th century, three artists played pivotal roles in shaping how Americans viewed and continue to view their country, its promise and potential as expressed in such natural wonders as Niagara Falls and the Grand…

  • Jon Schueler: A Painter of Our Time

    ACA Galleries, New York 21 January-18 February 2006 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 26 January-11 March 2006 The American Expressionist painter Jon Schueler (1916-92) was recently the subject of growing interest on both sides of the Atlantic. When he died in New…

  • The National Museum of the American Indian

    Almost 500 years after the “discovery” of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recognized with a new edifice on the Mall of the United States capital. On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian opened…