Tag: Paris

Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

This exhibition lacks coherence and has little to say about the influence British artists had on the French impressionists, but is redeemed by paintings of the Thames, the highlight of which are eight works by Claude Monet
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

The organisers of this exhibition are keen to show how the Dutch genre painters both drew inspiration from one another and were spurred on by rivalry, but this intention is undercut by the paintings of Vermeer. The others painted for…
Rodin

Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London 23 September 2006-1 January 2007
Anish Kapoor: Leviathan

Much has been said about the work of Anish Kapoor and his trajectory has made him one of the most important sculptors working today. Kapoor, who works incessantly, always finds a way to overwhelm the public. This time he has…
Gino Severini (1883-1966): futuriste et neoclassique

Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris 27 April–25 July 2011
Claude Monet

Grand Palais, Paris 22 September 2010–24 January 2011
Paris rising

The culture of Paris has never lacked dynamism, but has occasionally fallen back. However now the new Cite de la Mode et du Design close by the Gare d’Austerlitz designed by architects Jakob Macfarlane has made as big an impact…
A Creative Transatlantic Tango Shapes the Modern World: Paris/New York, 1925-1940

Museum of the City of New York 3 October 2008–22 February 2009
The Deformation Man: David Lynch’s Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 3 March–27 May 2007
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…