Tag: Leonardo da Vinci

  • Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

    The Queen’s Gallery showcases the Royal Collection’s superb archive of Leonardo da Vinci drawings in an exhibition that reflects the mischief and the magic behind the greatest mind of the Renaissance

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

    This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.

  • United Visual Artists: Vanishing Point

    United Visual Artists (UVA) was formed in 2003 by Matthew Clark, Chris Bird and Ash Nehru. Since then, the practice has expanded and currently numbers 12. With team members coming from various disciplines, including visual arts, architecture, engineering, production and…

  • Looking for Legends, Gambling on Faith

    Wang Guangyi: Words and Thoughts 1985-2012 by Demetrio Paparoni. Published by Skira, 2013

  • Dennis Oppenheim: Thought Collision Factories

    Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 21 November 2013 – 16 February 2014

  • Jill Spalding talks to American sculptor Alice Aycock

    It … seems possible to imagine a complex which exists in the world as a thing in itself, generating the conditions of its own becoming, and which exists apart from the world as a model for it, exposing the conditions…

  • ARCHIVE: Mario Merz interview

    An interview by Caroline Tisdall (Translated by Caroline Tisdall from an interview held in London on 4 September 1975)

  • Munch: The Problem With Women

    This timely showing of 60 various graphics in all, some six of which are from the Gallery’s own collection, focuses on Munch’s lithographs, woodcuts, dry-point prints plus one etching, from the years 1895–1915. Here therefore, is a compelling cross-section of…

  • Between Embodiment and Identity

    King’s College has purchased the East Wing of Somerset House – a row of Georgian buildings next to the Temple hidden behind the College’s street front. While photographs of eminent alumni (from Thomas Hardy to Desmond Tutu) cover the Strand…