London is a place continually remade by writers and artists, layering their own versions and theorie...
Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary
'Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary' explores self-portraits over 500 years. It includes 56 ...
Changing Hands and Building Bridges: Tradition and Innovation in Native Am...
'Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 - Contemporary Native North American Art from the West, N...
Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth
Aspects of Vincent Van Gogh's oeuvre, comparatively unknown to date, have recently been presented in...
Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Berthe Morisot was the first woman to join the circle of Impressionist painters and it is through fo...
The first comprehensive retrospective of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto's work to take place in hi...
The John Bellany Odyssey - paintings from Italy, China and the Tsunami
John Bellany's paintings are among the most confrontational, humanistic paintings produced in Britai...
Susan Contreras: Recuerdos de Mexico
'Recuerdos de Mexico' ('Memories of Mexico'), an exhibition of paintings by prominent Santa Fe artis...
Elias Rivera's paintings of the last 20 years present scenes in the streets or market places of Sant...
If you want to experience art in an exquisite setting, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Officially named ...
Sickert Today – Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1...
In 2005, two events coincided to provide us with the best opportunity to assess Walter Sickert's sta...
The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes
The Geffrye Museum is clear evidence of the gradual revival of Hackney Wick; indeed, of this whole E...
200 Trips from the Counterculture: Graphics and Stories from the Undergrou...
As I wandered around another bookshop feeling visually deprived and in a vague search for something ...
Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Mod...
Blood Red Suns and Bright Yellow Moons – Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
Tate Modern has shown great perception in mounting the current exhibition, 'Jungles in Paris'. It wa...
In New York, the queues have been forming at the Guggenheim. This is a momentous exhibition, which f...
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
The work of Simeon Solomon is celebrated at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to mark the centen...
Mumbai-based MF Husain's first solo exhibition in Singapore, entitled 'The Lost Continent', was held...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005
For art students, the graduation show can be a fraught affair, with a lack of space and last-minute ...
Eileen Gray at the Design Museum, London 2005
Eileen Gray's furniture has become well known ever since the London-based architect, designer and re...
In its current exhibition, which opened in September 2005, the American Folk Art Museum in New York ...
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Like a Dog Returns to its Vomit
With characteristic self-assurance and thoroughly post-modern irony, Jake and Dinos Chapman get thei...
Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reac...
Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious
The world of Eric Ravilious has received renewed attention in the past five years. Particularly nota...
The Sculpture of William Turnbull – book review
William Turnbull remains an important survivor of the British generation of sculptors whose early ca...
Ends Middles Beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects – book review
This practice biography (a more appropriate term than 'monograph' (which is over-used and misunderst...
Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: Self, Life, Death
More than any other exhibition in recent memory, 'Araki: Self, Life, Death' comes closest to an unme...
All the Fun of the Fair: Frieze Art Fair 2005
It is only in its third year, but Frieze is already one of the largest contemporary art events in th...
China's Artistic Evolution, Then and Now China: Crossroads of Culture Foll...
China's current rush to globalise its economy and, to some extent, its culture, is affecting all asp...
Diane Arbus's first retrospective exhibit in 1972 - several months after her suicide - shocked the p...