Tag: Susan Sontag

  • Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

    To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words

  • Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark

    A generous survey captures the full range of the American photographer, who chronicled New York’s gay scene during the 1970s and 80s

  • Robert Mapplethorpe

    Grand Palais, Paris 26 March 2014 – 13 July 2014

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    The Centre Pompidou, Paris 12 February – 9 June 2014

  • Sebastião Salgado: Genesis

    Natural History Museum, London 11 April–8 September 2013

  • Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?

    Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was something of a maverick but in time came to be revered on both sides of the Atlantic. On 6 March 2007, the renowned French sociologist and philosopher…

  • 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…

  • Rediscovering the Silver Age of Russian Art

    Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey 25 February-11 June 2006 While the recent, ambitious ‘RUSSIA!’ show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York was a bit thin on the artists associated with the Ballets…