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...
West Meets East in a DADAdventure
Just as the extensive exhibit, 'DADA', which revisited the movement, closed at the Museum of Modern ...
Axel Antas: Nature of Things/Marijke van Warmerdam: First Drop
During September it has been interesting to find two exhibitions, one in London and a second in Edin...
The power and efficiency of the modern marketing industry is now, perhaps, at its height; but many o...
Mimmo Paladino: Black and White
In London, Mimmo Paladino’s show, Black and White, at the Waddington Galleries earlier this year, ...
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjun...
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjun...
Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland
The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a su...
The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail
The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has genera...
Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park
This exhibition is the artist's first solo show in the UK, and takes place under the aegis of 'Paris...
Sculptural Architecture in Austria
This masterly exhibition has been organised with the support of, and in co-operation with, the Feder...
AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
Attracting those amorous of Englishness, the socialites and libertines who wear Westwood so well, th...
The work of 18 Lebanese artists has been brought together for this exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, ...
French Book Art/Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue
'Never give into routine; at each step, through books or in a wider context, everything must begin a...
The Royal Academy lecture, 'Peter Zumthor: Summerworks', was given by the Swiss architect Peter Zumt...
Constable: The Great Landscapes
This fascinating exhibition brings together several of Constable's best-known pictures in the form o...
Jeremy Gardiner: Ancient Landscapes/The Poetry of Crisis
Benjamin Britten, together with the other founders of the English Opera Group, chose Aldeburgh as th...
Tate Britain is celebrating the career of Howard Hodgkin this summer. Regarded as one of the most im...
On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag's passionate engagement with photography is the subject of a small but intriguing bit o...