An Englishman in Tasmania - Nicholas Blowers
Nicholas Blowers was born in Chelmsford, England in 1972. He studied locally, and then Fine Art at S...
Photographing Nepal from the Inside Out
On 14 March 2008, the Rubin Museum of Art, a venue dedicated to Himalayan arts and culture, opened t...
New Tent Architecture – book review
Tented architecture has been around since prehistory. But only recently has it been recognised as te...
The 2008 Whitney Biennial is smaller and quieter than in previous years, despite its extension to th...
A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is enough to cement the reputation of any artist, or else...
Gathering into gospel order: the Shaker approach to design
A consideration of Shaker-made architecture, furniture and commercial wares - items of remarkable be...
The portrait sculpture of Celia Scott
To open a door and enter a room where there are foregathered a dozen individuals, chiefly architects...
Papunya painting: out of the desert
Art is a central force in Aboriginal culture and a critical political tool. Through an understanding...
At the time of writing, the Olympic torch continues to make its troubled way around the globe, the p...
There is good reason this month in London to revisit Cranach. Last year saw the Courtauld Institute ...
Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography
Questions about the nature of representation have dogged the medium of photography since its concept...
Book review: The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
This remarkable survey was synchronised with an exhibition of the same title presented at the Museum...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Landscape painting remains, in the 21st-century, a continuing subject of fascination for art enthusi...
Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape
This exhibition sets out to be revisionary, looking at 19th-century landscape painting afresh. The g...
Fourteen years after Derek Jarman's death, this exhibition, together with a season of films at three...
Mars Collects! The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art: Barbican Art Gallery...
'The Mayan civilisation was ruled by a caste of peace-loving astronomer priests' ...
Art & Today is the fruit of the decade spent by the author as contributing editor to Art in America ...
Book review: Real Baroque. The Baroque Architecture of Sicily
This work is timely in so far as it forms part of the broad revision of architectural history that i...
This exhibition and catalogue of the work of German artist Neo Rauch (now at the Max Ernst Museum, B...
Contemporary Drawing: Recent Studies
Drawing has played a pivotal role in the work of most artists since the beginning of time. Following...
When Marcel Duchamp met Francis Picabia in September 1911, it was the start of a friendship that wou...
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...
Face to Face - The Daros Collections
'Face to Face' presents the two facets, or faces, of the Daros Collections, finding similarities bet...
With this third architectural/typological monograph, Professor Simon Unwin has completed what is eff...
John Bellany, Exhibition of Portraits
The human image is central to the work of John Bellany. In his treatment of the figure, and in his r...
In the closing years of the seventeenth century, the youthful Peter the Great toured western Europe ...
In 1974, following a visit to the Furniture Fair in Copenhagen, the question was raised, How will De...
Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group
To most people who live in London the name Camden Town means a busy interchange on the Northern Line...
A gift horse in the mouth: the Artists Rooms project and the d'Offay beque...
On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh's National Gallery of Modern Art. Bef...