The latest press speculation that the National Lottery will be expected to transfer massive funding ...
Treasures of the Ming Dynasty are Unearthed in Jingdezhen
In its recent exhibit of Ming Dynasty porcelains, the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology...
Hans Holbein the Younger was an artist and painter by profession, and a humanist intellectual by inc...
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction
For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the arti...
In any season, New York City is a magnet for anyone connected with the arts. On the roster for its f...
In the Playground of a Master Alchemist
Playful and provocative, whimsical and ironic - these are some adjectives that might come to mind wh...
The great 18th-century caricaturist, William Hogarth, who signed himself 'Britophil', caught the moo...
Amedeo Modigliani's (1884-1920) premature death at the age of 35, as a consequence of bohemian exces...
London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil
London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of 'The Devil Wears Prada', starring Mery...
Kerry James Marshall: Along the Way
Finishing its last call on 22 October 2006 was the exhibition entitled 'Along the Way', covering the...
Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)
This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the ...
Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory
Daniel Buren has had a stimulating and now distinguished continuity in Britain. The arrival of his e...
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating tourin...
The Frieze Art Fair is many things: a spectacle, a film festival, a four-day extravaganza of talks, ...
For millions of people, The Wizard of Oz brings to mind the 1939 MGM movie musical starring Judy Gar...
Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art
The contemporary comic genre contains many novel and sophisticated artistic expressions. Art Spiegel...
Building an Identity Through Innovation and Change: The Bienal de Sã...
Taking the Venice Biennale as a model, the Bienal de S...
The Architecture of the Last Empire
The past decade has seen a growing interest in the British Indian Empire and its inner social and ec...
The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art – book review
The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral is a gallop through art history from ...
In August, this website featured an assessment of the high quality of the collections at Pallant Hou...
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
'Artists can colour the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must col...
New German Painting – book review
This book, edited by Christoph Tannert, provides a well-edited selection of contemporary work by you...
An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th Internat...
Hilla von Rebay: the Artist Behind the Guggenheim
Hilla von Rebay is perhaps best known as Solomon R. Guggenheim's art adviser and the person who comm...
Melbourne Art Fair 2006: A Celebration of Indigenous Art and Beyond
In August, more than 26,000 visitors flocked to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair, considered by the A...
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design
No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leon...
Interview: Kim Thomas Reflects On Art, Music, Poetry and Life
Kim Thomas has been painting, writing poetry and singing for most of her life. Perhaps that is why t...
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
'Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century', on view at Japan Society in New York Cit...
The Royal Academy is currently thronged with jostling human bodies and body parts. These are not, ho...