'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...
The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.17...
Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The rec...
The National Museum of the American Indian
Almost 500 years after the "discovery" of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recogn...
Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space
'If you seek his monument, look around' - such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christophe...
The enigma of Édouard Vuillard
Revisiting Vuillard on the last day of the exhibition, one is prone to many afterthoughts dominated ...
The Pleasure of 'Pain'. Pain: Passion, compassion, sensibility
Sadism and salvation, torture and tenderness, martyrdom and mercy: these are the subj...
The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980
Philip Guston is one of America's most important 20th century artists. His work occupies a unique pl...
Spider in the Field - Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai by MVRDV
MVRDV is an office for urbanism and architecture based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Win...
The annual Shanghai Art Fair, now in its seventh year, remains as much a test of what the market wil...
The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures
As part of the British Museum's 250th anniversary, The Museum of the Mind', explores how the creatio...
'Titian' is the first in a series of three exhibitions of Renaissance art to be held at the National...
Despite the fact that Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have already become world-c...
Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography
Unseen Vogue, an exhibition shown recently in the Design Museum, London that is also...
An old tenement building close to the harbour in Valletta seems an unlikely location in which to lau...
Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape - book review
Mel Gooding, in his introduction to this book, reminds us that the modern world has more in common w...
The Banksias: Watercolours, by Celia Rosser at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (5 April-30 ...
Skythian baba: A painting counter-revolution
Natalia Goncharova, one of the famous originators of Russian avant-garde, is now the subject of a la...
The Boyds; Australian Gothic: a life of Albert Tucker; Sidney Nolan – bo...
Art is a central force in Aboriginal culture and a critical political tool. Through an understan...
The authentic and the twitch: architecture, tourism and simulacrum
The authentic and the twitch: architecture, tourism and simulacrum – Increasingly, we now seek to ...
Janet McKenzie's book, The Art of Ken Done, is about an Australian artist who, apparently, has never...
‘The Print in Italy 1550–1620’ at the British Museum (27 September 2001–6 January 2002) is a...
The Las Vegas Guggenheim Museum
Rem Koolhaas, architect and author of Delirious New York, an important architectural tract of the mi...
The Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize 2001
Stirling Prize 2001 – This year's award ceremony in the Great Court of the British Museum (itself ...
September Eleventh: European thoughts
The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by th...
The Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Chi...
Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University – From the time of his first v...
The Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
The Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution will open to the public on 28th Septembe...