Tag: The Studio

  • 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…

  • BP Portrait Award 2007

    National Portrait Gallery, London 14 June – 16 September 2007 When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception but has now built itself into something of a national institution, and I personally try…

  • Sharon Booma’s Odes and Intimations of Immortality

    The seductive allure of Sharon Booma’s paintings defies description. Viewing one of the artist’s oil and mixed media inventions, one feels an attraction to surface beauty, the pull of colour and texture, and then the plunge into deeper mystery. Booma’s…

  • Allora and Calzadilla: Clamor

    Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London 17-29 April 2007

  • Camouflage

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 March-18 November 2007

  • 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…

  • Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.

    The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new millennium, yet it is by definition problematic. In “Writing the Silence: A Taxonomy of Memory”, Louise Adler writes:

  • Wrestling with the Angel in the Modern Age

  • Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

    The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…