Tag: Rubens

Sara Shamma – interview: ‘When I paint, I am in a state like meditation’

Shamma’s latest exhibition of new paintings responds to works by greats from Rembrandt to Rubens. Here, she talks about her intuitive practice, the importance of music to her work, the impact of war in her native Syria, and women and…
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after €100m renovation

After 11 years of work, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has finally opened its doors, revealing exciting interventions by KAAN Architecten and a radically different approach by its curators
Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’

Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
This Is What It Is to Be Happy

What is it to be happy in an age where mental health problems are so prevalent? How can communing with nature, externalising the internal – both metaphorically and literally – help with this? This slickly curated three-person show delves deep,…
Unseen

The newly finished Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery showcases the incredible breadth of the Courtauld’s collection and promises many years of fascinating displays
Sensation and Sensuality: Rubens and his Legacy

This true gem of an exhibition shows not only Rubens’ vast creativeness, but the incredible artistic influence he bestowed on those who sought to follow him
The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has generally been insufficiently recognised. This was a brilliant religious, figurative and landscape painter whose influence upon…
Masterpieces from Dresden

Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy, London, 15 March-8 June 2003.