Book review: Archaeology of an Urban Desert
Jon Naar is a British photographer who has been based in New York. In 1974 he joined up with the lat...
Age of Transparency and Innocence: the Changing Face of Childhood
The excellent exhibition The Changing Face of Childhood, the product of a collaboration between the ...
Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts. Art is not a 'profession'. There is...
The Apparitions of a Surrealist Eye: Dalí & Film
Salvador Dalí's involvement with film was profound and critical to his artistic sensibilities...
Architecture: London's new rail terminus at St Pancras
In the 18th century there lay just to the north of the burgeoning City of London, divided from the m...
This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volu...
Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects
The outstanding American landscapist Patricia Johanson occupies a unique position in American contem...
The autumn grand exhibition at Tate Britain is on the work of John Everett Millais (1829-1896), prom...
Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective
This is the first major retrospective of Sidney Nolan's paintings since his death in 1992. It presen...
The recent death of Ron Kitaj has not been the subject of the attention that an artist of such talen...
This is an outstanding international exhibition, dedicated to a significant section of contemporary ...
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint
When we speak of executing something - an article, a work of art, a musical composition - we speak o...
In only five years, Frieze has gone from a standing start to being a major fixture in the art world ...
Artists imagine action to stimulate change
The Lisson Gallery in London took the phrase 'Imagine Action' as the title for its recent summer exh...
Migrant architects from Britain: the RIBA Stirling Prize 2007
As we digest the results of the annual celebration of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIB...
Warhol: A celebration of life ... and death
From February 2007 through to September 2008 there have been over a dozen dedicated Warhol exhibitio...
Keith Arnatt: I'm a Real Photographer
Currently exhibiting at the Photographers' Gallery, Arnatt's work focuses mainly on images of waste....
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007
The Royal Academy in summertime is a national institution. As well as the Summer Exhibition this yea...
The British Museum has taken the opportunity of the current celebration of 60 years of Indian indepe...
Book review: Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
he expansion and enrichment of current discourse on the above subject has been notable where landsca...
When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception bu...
Two exhibitions in Edinburgh this summer enable the public to view different aspects of work by Pabl...
Antony Gormley (b.1950) is best known for his massive sculpture Angel of the North (1998) and Field ...
The photography divisions of the major American art museums are currently besotted with glamour. The...
Francesca Woodman's photographs have consistently garnered critical attention since her premature de...
AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz
Pallant House's current exhibition celebrates the way in which music sustained and inspired abstract...
Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend
As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic movements of the twe...
'Destricted': sex as performance art
The creators of 'Destricted' describe the production as a set of 'explicit films'. The seven short f...