Tag: Henri Matisse

  • Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-71– book review

    A thorough introduction to and overview of a fascinating artist who has been far too overlooked. The focus on this decade brings to the fore Scott’s paradoxical sculptures and horizontal Brâncuși-ism

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

    Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood

  • Modigliani: Modern Gazes

    This multifaceted exhibition positions the artist Amedeo Modigliani among his contemporaries, traces the art historic roots that make up his unique style and highlights his early documentation of the modern woman

  • Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter

    Remembered more as an artist’s model than a painter, this largely forgotten female artist is brought back into the spotlight in this charmingly fresh and colourful exhibition

  • Adelaide Cioni – interview: ‘My work is about the origins of drawing and that visual or aesthetic relation we have to objects’

    The artist talks about her interest in patterns, and how these relate to something deep inside us, a universal alphabet, which evades meaning

  • Matisse: The Books – book review

    This sumptuous publication brings together Matisse’s eight livres d’artiste with meticulous attention to feel and detail

  • Gauguin and the Impressionists

    Do we need yet another impressionist exhibition? This Royal Academy showcase of Denmark’s Ordrupgaard collection proves that there is life still in the old dog

  • David Hockney: Drawing from Life

    In the first major exhibition of David Hockney’s drawings for 20 years, a focus on just a handful of sitters amplifies the importance of drawing in a career that has sustained Hockney for more than half a century

  • Bridget Riley

    This exhibition of work by the octogenarian painter shows everything from her earliest work to her most recent explorations

  • Nicole Eisenman: Groupings of Works from Fountain

    Eisenman’s Groupings of Works from Fountain, three sculptures joyfully spouting or spitting water into the air in sparkling arcs, were unveiled last month at the Fenway in Boston. The extreme likability of these oversized creatures is sure to make them…