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...
Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative
Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this yea...
Nine Green Bottles: 'Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964'
The exhibition now opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays over 100 works by Giorgio Moran...
Medium or rare: the art-market grill
It has been a curious coincidence that the extraordinary Damien Hirst sale took place just before gl...
Book review: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
A new biographical study of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) is most timely. The historic...
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 ...
Phyllis Lambert and the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Phyllis Lambert is now in her 81st year and her long life is particularly associated with two buildi...
The Louisiana Museum in Denmark offers a quiet, liminal space for contemplation, isolated from every...
Richard Demarco, Edinburgh International Festival, 2008
It may be a product of age or lack of funding and proper premises but, whatever the reason, Richard ...
'Tracey Emin: 20 Years' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is, in spite of her fame, the...
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
This exhibition reaches Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival of Art, having travelled via three U...
Richard Hamilton: 'Protest pictures'
Inverleith House is located at the centre of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. At one time it ...
About a wall: Hadrian at the British Museum
History, at least in Northern Europe, essentially defines the Emperor Hadrian, subject of the Britis...
A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim
Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist's nearly 100 years of living and mor...
Art, Consciousness and Other Intractable Problems
'Neuroscience is emerging as one of the grand belief systems informing the imagination of artists an...
William Kelly - Artist as Peacemaker
American-born Australian artist and human rights advocate, William Kelly first visited Australia on ...
What is it to perceive time? For some, to be temporally aware is to observe the changes in states or...
One of the important architectural icons of the 1970s is, by popular consent, now due to be demolish...
Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons
The opening of Callimachus's 'Hymn to Apollo' as translated by Lombardo and Rayer. The god, patron o...
'Poet of Light' Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence
The exhibition of the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916), entitled 'The Poetry...
The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus
In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achieveme...
A Maltese Celebration: Architecture into Art
Richard England, now seventy years of age, is a totally indigenous Maltese architect of internationa...
As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by bo...
Psycho Buildings at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, London, under director Ralph Rugoff, has organised another trailblazing exhibit...
Book review: Photo Art: The New World of Photography
This work, which originated with the Cologne publisher DuMont Buchverlag in 2007, is an invaluable a...
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900
To celebrate 2008 as European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool is presenting the first, 'comprehen...
Dr Irene Barberis teaches and researches at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has recentl...
Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist
The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a '...