London's refurbished Royal Festival Hall (RFH) is this month reopened to the public with a star-stud...
Georg Baselitz is a powerful and rebellious painter who admits to being a painter of ...
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's most significant artists. The National Gallery, London is showing a...
The Prado Museum in Madrid has stolen a march on all other competitors in achieving a major new retr...
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in Edinburgh has got in before the Royal Academy in London with its...
An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wid...
Beijing's 'New' Arts Centre: The Capital Museum
Beijing's Capital Museum has emerged from obscurity to become a leading Chinese cultural institution...
In England, during the early 1940s, there had been a real belief that a German attack was imminent, ...
Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
'Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress', now on at the Design Museum in London, where text (apart from c...
Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others
The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary ...
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit, accomp...
The Real World of Abstractionism: Arshile Gorky and the Supremacy of the F...
France annually celebrates a country with which it feels an affinity, and 2007 is the year of 'Arm...
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
'The Unknown Monet' is the first exhibition devoted to the pastels and drawings of Claude Monet. Eig...
James 'Athenian' Stuart, who was born in 1731 and died in 1788, is a far less well-known figure in t...
MAD's Chief Curator Makes An Art of Making Connections
David Revere McFadden's career could function as a case study. With more than 35 years of experience...
Non-refusals in Rubbish: Return of the Rubbish Aesthetic
Refuse has become a key artist's material, as if it ever ceased to be. Today, Colombian artist Doris...
Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art
The first works in this excellent exhibition revolve around William Hayley (1745-1820), a poet who t...
Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace has opened on 30 March an exhibition of Italian old master pa...
Sol LeWitt: the Mystic Conceptualist
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
Camouflage is not a much-visited field in contemporary art. Yet it is described comprehensively and ...
Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?
Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was someth...
Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air
Leading British land artist Andy Goldsworthy is helping the Yorkshire Sculpture Park mark its 30th a...
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
The Deformation Man: David Lynch's Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis
David Lynch's productions are guided by the theme of metamorphosis. Beginning with his early works, ...
The curators James Lindon and Erin Manns have taken the idea of the 'absentee performer' as a starti...
Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.
The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new mille...
Contemporary Artists Embrace a 'Radical' Tradition
In recent years, traditional handcrafts, particularly knitting, have experienced a boom and drawn a ...
Flying into Denver airport, the Rockies rise high in the distance, a constant reminder of the fronti...
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment
Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, pub...
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein...