Tag: mortality

  • Helene Schjerfbeck

    A striking study of the process of ageing and mortality, the central room of this three-gallery exhibition offers a stand-alone journey through this Finnish artist’s life and concerns

  • On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 6 June-4 September 2006 Susan Sontag’s passionate engagement with photography is the subject of a small but intriguing bit of curatorial ingenuity; a show that offers a handful of Sontag’s potent statements on the…

  • Celtic Vision

    John Bellany: A Scottish Odyssey Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg 16 June-3 September 2006 John Bellany’s (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced in Britain in recent history. Layered with references to the Expressionistic tradition in art (Bosch, Breughel,…