Tag: Sonia Delaunay

  • In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s

    A touring exhibition of art from Ukraine’s national museums captures the country’s distinctive contribution to the early 20th-century avant garde

  • Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider

    A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreements between the expressionist artists associated with the Blue Rider

  • After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

    Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin are at the heart of this show as it takes us on an exhilarating journey through art’s evolution from the final impressionist exhibition to the eve of the first world war, with many previously unseen…

  • Vision & Reality: 100 Years of Contemporary Art in Wakefield

    As the gallery celebrates its 10th birthday, it is apposite that it is marking its place in the century-long history of contemporary art in Wakefield. Although closed due to Covid, the online offering is comprehensive and fascinating

  • Inti Guerrero – interview: ‘I am trying not to fall into the cultural production and consumption of difference’

    The curator of this year’s EVA International, Ireland’s biennial, talks about how the country’s history and heritage and, in particular, the forthcoming referendum on abortion have shaped his thinking behind the event

  • Sonia Delaunay: Les Couleurs de l’Abstraction

    A key figure of early 20th-century Parisian avant garde, Sonia Delaunay has often been cast in a supporting role to her husband, modernist Robert Delaunay. A major European retrospective puts the record straight and shows her impact on the international…

  • Charlotte Hodes: interview

    In The Grammar of Ornament: New Paper Cuts and Ceramics, artist Charlotte Hodes takes as her cue the seminal 19th-century publication The Grammar of Ornament (1856), by the architect and designer Owen Jones,1 to investigate the relationship between the female…

  • A Delicate Game of Cat-and-Mouse

    The experience of art is not merely a matter of looking at it, but thinking and talking about it. For nearly 50 years, English critic and biographer Michael Peppiatt has been getting artists to talk about the art they create,…