Tag: Studio

  • Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture

    The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert communities in the 1970s and 1980s reveals a series of ironies, which enable contemporary indigenous art in Australia to be better understood. The works themselves are superb, as…

  • Book review: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone

    A new biographical study of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) is most timely. The historical importance of this remarkable polymath has been in need of revision for four decades or more

  • A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim

    Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist’s nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges…

  • Art, Consciousness and Other Intractable Problems

    ‘Neuroscience is emerging as one of the grand belief systems informing the imagination of artists and writers in the twenty-first century’,1 writes the neuropsychologist and author Paul Broks in the catalogue that accompanies this exhibition. It is certainly a rapidly…

  • Papunya painting: out of the desert

    National Museum of Australia, Canberra. 28 November 2007-28 February 2008

  • Contemporary Drawing: Recent Studies

    Drawing has played a pivotal role in the work of most artists since the beginning of time. Following the rejection of traditional teaching methods during the 1960s when abstract art dominated, a more private character for drawing was assumed. With…

  • The Art of Nothing: Ivo Mesquita and the Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo

    The ‘Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo’ is now one of the major international displays of contemporary art, along with two other grand showcases of modern and contemporary art; the estimable ‘Venice Biennale’, first held in 1895; and ‘Documenta’…

  • Bauhaus: 1919-1933

    The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was once the decoration of buildings. They were inseparable parts of the great art of building. Today, they exist in isolation, from which they can be…

  • The Art of Seduction

    Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now London: Merrell, 2007 This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volume, divided into ten chapters, covering different specs of the subject.

  • Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint

    20 September-11 November 2007 Serpentine Gallery, London When we speak of executing something – an article, a work of art, a musical composition – we speak of working towards some kind of resolution, of there being a sequence of events…