Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939
The catalogue promotion for this remarkable exhibition of early 20th-century design pioneers suggest...
Ettore Sottsass: Architect & Designer – book review
Perhaps the most surprising statement in this book (at least for a European) is that Ettore Sottsass...
The Terribly Human Tomi Ungerer
Today, Tomi Ungerer is among Europe's best-known commercial artists but has been largely forgotten ...
Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion – book review
So many of the works of Egon Schiele owe their existence to the numerous taboos constraining artists...
Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
The exhibition 'Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era' has succeeded...
Albers & Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World
Two of the great practitioner-teachers of 20th-century art, Josef Albers and L...
Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context...
Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
What fascinates us in an artwork? One answer to this question is content that conveys a sense of har...
The Istanbul Modern Art Museum
The Istanbul Modern can be hard to find. It is still new enough that taxi drivers are not quite sure...
Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art – book review
This publication is essentially also the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name, which was fir...
Joseph Beuys Collection, Museum Schloss Moyland
Driving through the landscape of the north Rhine on the Dutch-German border is an almost mystical ex...
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
'I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly ...
A little gem of a show passed without much fanfare at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in the Chelsea distric...
Paris, at the end of the 19th century, encompassed European tradition and the avant-garde. Having su...
Kippenberger's restless stylistic movements resist the monumentality that a retrospective can impart...
The Trees for the Wood - the Enigmatic Genius of Jacob van Ruisdael
There is major significance in Seymour Slive's excellent exhibition currently showing in the Sackler...
Tom Hunter, Living in Hell and Other Stories
Since 1997, Tom Hunter has turned his camera on his surrounding neighbourhood of Hackney, showing em...
The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – book reiew
Taiwanese artist Jimmy Liao's transformation from veteran of the advertising industry to illustrator...
Moonrise over Europe: JC Dahl and Romantic Landscape
'This compact and appealing exhibition is designed to celebrate The Barber Institute's acquisition o...
The Gao Xingjian Experience: A Personal Journey to the Infinite
'The Gao Xingjian Experience' is the first retrospective art exhibition in Asia of the celebrated mu...
Brussels Dispatch: A Review of Some Small and Unusual Spaces for Art
Built in 1663, the Brigittine Chapel has survived a bombardment that turned its surroundings to ashe...
On the Trail of Wise Fools and Simpletons in the Himalayas
Those unfamiliar with Tantric Siddhas and Himalayan art, culture and religion may be surprised to le...
Asian Traffic: Magnetism - Suspension
Shanghai is an international city known for its economic prowess and cosmopolitan culture. There is ...
To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!
The same may be true of Russian art, as anyone who was lucky enough to see the recent exhibition, 'R...
Royal Academicians in China, 2003-2005
'Royal Academicians in China, 2003-2005' was conceived to coincide with the Royal Academy's remarkab...
China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795
China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Royal Academy of Arts,12 November 2005-17 April 2006. Painting...
Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Radical educational establishment and sanctuary of the avant-garde in art, music, poetry and dance, ...
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon
Since 1967, Richard Long has used walking as the basis of his artistic practice. What appears in the...
It is a measure of the seriousness with which many Poles regard culture that the national quality da...
Richard Long: The Time of Space
Since 1967, Richard Long has used walking as the basis of his artistic practice. What appears in the...