The Terribly Human Tomi Ungerer
Today, Tomi Ungerer is among Europe's best-known commercial artists but has been largely forgotten ...
The Istanbul Modern Art Museum
The Istanbul Modern can be hard to find. It is still new enough that taxi drivers are not quite sure...
The Trees for the Wood - the Enigmatic Genius of Jacob van Ruisdael
There is major significance in Seymour Slive's excellent exhibition currently showing in the Sackler...
Tom Hunter, Living in Hell and Other Stories
Since 1997, Tom Hunter has turned his camera on his surrounding neighbourhood of Hackney, showing em...
The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – book reiew
Taiwanese artist Jimmy Liao's transformation from veteran of the advertising industry to illustrator...
The Gao Xingjian Experience: A Personal Journey to the Infinite
'The Gao Xingjian Experience' is the first retrospective art exhibition in Asia of the celebrated mu...
To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!
The same may be true of Russian art, as anyone who was lucky enough to see the recent exhibition, 'R...
Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Radical educational establishment and sanctuary of the avant-garde in art, music, poetry and dance, ...
It is a measure of the seriousness with which many Poles regard culture that the national quality da...
Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary
'Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary' explores self-portraits over 500 years. It includes 56 ...
The John Bellany Odyssey - paintings from Italy, China and the Tsunami
John Bellany's paintings are among the most confrontational, humanistic paintings produced in Britai...
Susan Contreras: Recuerdos de Mexico
'Recuerdos de Mexico' ('Memories of Mexico'), an exhibition of paintings by prominent Santa Fe artis...
Elias Rivera's paintings of the last 20 years present scenes in the streets or market places of Sant...
If you want to experience art in an exquisite setting, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Officially named ...
Sickert Today – Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1...
In 2005, two events coincided to provide us with the best opportunity to assess Walter Sickert's sta...
The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes
The Geffrye Museum is clear evidence of the gradual revival of Hackney Wick; indeed, of this whole E...
The Sculpture of William Turnbull – book review
William Turnbull remains an important survivor of the British generation of sculptors whose early ca...
Since the first inception of museums in the late 18th century, we have, until the present day, seen ...
When the artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, first came to Stoneypath, in south-west Scotland in 1968, the ...
Scandinavian Design: Beyond the Myth
'Scandinavian Design: Beyond the Myth' makes two assumptions: first, that there is a myth regarding...
The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia
This exhibition of 26 contemporary artists from Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan is an attempt, in the...
My first encounter with Tan Dun was through his multimedia concerto grosso 'The Map' last October in...
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures
As Shakespeare wrote, the world is a stage on which everyone is a player. At Mori Art Museum's curre...
The International Asian Art Fair
Between April 1 and 6, the International Asian Art Fair celebrated its tenth season at the Seventh R...
The Triumph of Painting. Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984The Saatchi...
'The Triumph of Painting' is, in certain respects, the triumph of Charles Saatchi. For 20 years, he ...
'The Art of Romare Bearden' commenced its run in September 2003 at the National Gallery of Art in Wa...
In the words of Henry Matisse, 'It seemed to me that Turner must have been the link between the acad...
The Art Olympics - The Eighth Shanghai Art Fair
Portraying visual gymnastics, Greg Johns' twisting and twining bronze sculpture at th...
The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras
The British Library famously has had a stormy and protracted development, and it is ...
The First Architectural Biennale Beijing 2004
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the 21st century belongs to Asia - if not to China alo...