Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
The first major exhibition in Britain of American Jasper Johns since 1977 at the Hayward Gallery is ...
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy, at the National Gallery this summer reveals a seminal perio...
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004
This year's innovative Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London was selected and organised by ...
The Lichtenstein retrospective at the Hayward Gallery establishes an interesting timescale in terms ...
Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
Andrew Lloyd Webber's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings is probably the most distinguished in p...
Paula Rego: Jane Eyre and Other Stories
Reaction to the Iraqi War in the West has been strangely muted among artists. In England, Paula Rego...
Picasso's designs for Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes
The Edinburgh Festival is not always as strong in the visual arts as it is in the range of excellent...
Painting, Passion and Politics: Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection
On loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 'Painting, Passion and Politics' is showing ...
Rapture: Art's seduction by fashion since 1970
Until visiting this exhibition I had, naively and unconsciously, assumed that contem...
Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation
In vast contrast to Tate Modern’s Warhol exhibition earlier this year, the Picasso Matisse which i...
'100 Years Ago' is the name of Peter Doig's current show, the first in London since his Whitechapel ...
Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries
In 1996, while levelling the sports field of the Shefan primary school in Qingzhou, ...
Edinburgh belongs to a special kind of city deserving of the UNESCO designation as a...
RIBA in Ecstasy: British Architectural Awards 2001
RIBA Awards 2001 – Ecstasy and fatigue, according to neuro-psychologist Richard Gregory, go togeth...
Patrick Heron: the growing legacy of genius
The work of Patrick Heron is bound up with what is probably the most crucial series of events in Bri...
Paul Klee at the Scottish National Gallery
The Private Klee on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is the third in...
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2000
Given the characteristic hubris of Tate Modern over the river, it is interesting and also reassuring...
Rothko through his paintings – The intention here is to elucidate Rothko's achievement in terms of...
Richard Lindner and the human being as a toy
Richard Lindner and the human being as a toy – A Lindner retrospective exhibition, shown at the St...
Phillip King. Studio International, 1965, Volume 170, 254
Phillip King, young British sculptor working mainly in plastic, answers some questions by John Copla...
Philip Guston: The painter as metaphysician
The painter cannot remove himself from the currents of time, nor can he pretend that time, 'that flu...