Marc Chagall: Ceramic Masterpieces
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a storyteller with a magical dimension. His popularity ...
To accompany the exhibition Max Beckmann, a collaboration between the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate M...
A recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American In...
Book review: Where's My Space Age? The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design
This beautifully designed book charts the influence of the space craze on Western cu...
The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures
As part of the British Museum's 250th anniversary, The Museum of the Mind', explores how the creatio...
Adventures in Art: Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (published 2003) is the most recent title in Prestel's lis...
This compact and beautifully illustrated book concentrates on the essential aspects ...
Two new exhibitions of new work by Frank Stella recently opened in London and New York....
Last year the National Portrait Gallery in London put together an exhibition of over 100 works by ph...
The 100th anniversary this year of the Venice Biennale will probably not be its last. But then it’...
Outsider Art comes Full Circle – 'John the Painter'
'Outsider Artists' are not only untrained, but have also avoided 'social conditioning and cultural i...
John Piper in the 1930s - Abstraction on the Beach
Dulwich Picture Gallery marks the centenary of John Piper's birth with a major exhibition devoted to...
I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myse...
The superb exhibition now filling four rooms of the Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy, London, is ap...
'Titian' is the first in a series of three exhibitions of Renaissance art to be held at the National...
I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myse...
Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art
In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of ...
London Review of Books — Shop, Bury Place, London, WC1
LRB has actually opened its own shop, in an amazing display of commercial acumen....
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) has long been recognised as one of Germany's leading 20th century artists...
How cities renew, rebuild & remember
Perhaps it was just a little ironic that, at a time when the bombing of Baghdad was in the offing, a...
Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
Giorgio de Chirico's (1888-1978) enigmatic, haunting paintings of deserted city squares, shadows, sl...
Achille Castiglioni: an obituary
The death of Achille Castiglioni towards the end of last year is a sad reminder that...
David Hockney: Painting on Paper
David Hockney: Painting on Paper at Annely Juda concentrates on the artist's dynamic new use of wat...
Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
Antony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles' is one of the most riveting projects by a British scu...
Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist
The British Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. If the present exhibition - Albrecht ...
Eva Hesse at Tate Modern is a wonderful, enigmatic exhibition that inspires a wide range of interpre...
Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition that the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, has eve...
The Aztec exhibition at the Royal Academy opened on 16 November and will run until 11 April 2003. Th...
Howard Hodgkin: Large Paintings 1984-2002
Howard Hodgkin is regarded as one of the most important artists in Britain working today...
There have been some carping comments in British art magazines, such as 'The Museum ...