The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka, ‘How it is’
Miroslaw Balka has created an environment, a work using light-absorbing material across the walls of...
The Not-So-Secret Language of Pins
A skilled diplomat's arsenal might include a surprisingly diverse range of tactics because a success...
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Polan...
'The places I remember exist no more. They are only in my head, and if I die they will disappear wit...
The Enlightenments. Edinburgh International Festival 2009
The 2009 Festival is promoted this year, as taking its inspiration from the 18th century Scottish En...
The Discovery of Spain. British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso
In The Discovery of Spain exhibition, the National Gallery of Scotland (NGS) has put together an aes...
The Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Situated on the western side of the extended axis along the Olympic Green and directly fronting the ...
The Beijing National Stadium - Beijing Olympic Architecture in Retrospect I
The Beijing National Stadium – Beijing Olympic Architecture in Retrospect I – The modern day Oly...
Uch Emchek or 3M-Check: Central Asia's First Art Residency Programme
A man praying, then standing on his head...
Tarkovsky: Russian film-maker – book review
This is a remarkable new compendium on the life and work of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky ...
The British Council Collection; Passports
Relatively unknown inside of Britain, the British Council in fact plays an extensive role in nurturi...
Sickert in Venice. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2009
In 1905 Sickert returned triumphantly from Venice ready to take on and lead the new generation of Br...
The House Of Books Has No Windows
Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller like telling stories. The narrative impetus p...
Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
The exhibition 'Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye' at the National Museum of Australia in ...
Two seekers of light - Ammi Phillips and Mark Rothko - meet in Manhattan
Pairing artists from different centuries who had, seemingly, diverse aims and ambitions - one a majo...
To Die For, images of Castle Howard on a certain day
'To Die For' at Castle Howard in Yorkshire presents 13 large photographs by Nick Howard taken in 99 ...
'Tracey Emin: 20 Years' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is, in spite of her fame, the...
The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus
In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achieveme...
The 2008 Whitney Biennial is smaller and quieter than in previous years, despite its extension to th...
The portrait sculpture of Celia Scott
To open a door and enter a room where there are foregathered a dozen individuals, chiefly architects...
Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape
This exhibition sets out to be revisionary, looking at 19th-century landscape painting afresh. The g...
This exhibition and catalogue of the work of German artist Neo Rauch (now at the Max Ernst Museum, B...
That Man from Rio: Celebrating Oscar Niemeyer's Centennial
Considered to be Brazil's most important architect, Oscar Niemeyer (b.1907) is also a major figure i...
In 1974, following a visit to the Furniture Fair in Copenhagen, the question was raised, How will De...
The Art of Nothing: Ivo Mesquita and the Bienal Internacional de Arte de S...
The 'Bienal Internacional de Arte de S...
Seduced by the Oldest Topic in the World
Sex is an extremely popular subject, but 'sex appeal' is nearly impossible to define. People seem to...
The current winter show at the National Gallery, London, perhaps springs from mixed motives. Firstly...
The One and the Many: Carlos Ortiz and the Dance of Life
For Nuyorican artist Carlos Ortiz, the seeds for a series of personal epiphanies were planted while ...
Towers: from Manhattan to Moscow
Renzo Piano's New York Times Building, situated on 8th Avenue, Manhattan, was opened this month to c...
The 52nd Venice Biennale ended on 21 November 2007. It will have presented an enormous challenge to ...