Tag: Ashmolean Museum

Daphne Wright: Deep-Rooted Things

This show is a celebration of the domestic, and the poignant sculpture of Wright’s two sons, now on the cusp on adulthood, dominates as the Irish artist explores memory, identity, life and death
Tokyo: Art and Photography

A dizzying array of 400 years of artworks from the capital is testimony to the ability of the Japanese people to reinvent themselves
Ali Kazim – interview: ‘When I picked up a pottery shard and it had some imprint of the potter, it was a sort of time travelling key for me’

The artist talks about looking to ancient civilisations for inspiration, why he doesn’t like working with a sitter in his studio, and how his practice changed during lockdown
Young Rembrandt

Covering the first decade of Rembrandt’s work, with more than 30 paintings and 90 drawings and prints, this unusual show traces the artist’s transformation from unaccomplished teenager to one of the world’s greatest artists
Jeff Koons

From a balloon bunny to a vast, glossy pink Venus of Willendorf, there is everything we would expect from Koons at his latest exhibition at the Ashmolean – but there is also a sense that he has run out of…
Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft

Spellbound is an exhibition that not only examines the superstitious practices that governed our ancestors, but also exposes those we still cling to today
America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

As the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby’s parties, some of modernism’s biggest names stood back and took stock. And the world…
Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 6 Oct 2011–8 January 2012