If there was ever a clearer purpose and definition of the respective rationale behind the division o...
September Eleventh: European thoughts
The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by th...
Experiment Experiencia: Art in Brazil 1958-2000
The Brazil of the start of this period was scarcely realised in the recent Tate Modern extravaganza ...
The painter Balthus died aged 93 in February this year. He was born in l908 as Balthasar Klossowski ...
Milton Avery Late Works — Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951–1963
It was an unexpected pleasure to see an exhibition of Milton Avery paintings in London this Autumn (...
Letter from Stockholm, September 2001
The newly opened memorial for Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947) is a significant event in Stockholm...
Dan Flavin's work is exemplary. Of what? Yet, he preferred to call his works simply 'proposals', rat...
Illusion – Japanese Photography
'Illusion - Japanese photography' at the Kulturhuset consists of the work of eleven Japanese photogr...
Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods
A remarkable exhibition has just opened in a remote town of the Vosges mountain area of north-we...
London comment: e-letter from London
The sudden departure of Chief Curator Lars Nittve from the Tate Modern in July suggested that all wa...
Giorgio Morandi – A person, unmarried, and living for most of his life in a dingy apartment in a n...
Although hardly a 'movement' in the conventional sense, Arte Povera has stayed in the mind of a ...
RIBA in Ecstasy: British Architectural Awards 2001
RIBA Awards 2001 – Ecstasy and fatigue, according to neuro-psychologist Richard Gregory, go togeth...
Patrick Heron: the growing legacy of genius
The work of Patrick Heron is bound up with what is probably the most crucial series of events in Bri...
The world of the imagination, like that of the dream has attracted many twentieth century artists, f...
City exhibitions are not new. In 1977 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris embarked upon a great series of...
Caravaggio: The Genius of Rome
It might seem churlish to criticise an exhibition which has been dedicated to the late Francis Haske...
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art – The exhibition contains the work of thirteen i...
The exhibition of Victor Willing's paintings at Marlborough Fine Art supports the publication of the...
Paul Klee at the Scottish National Gallery
The Private Klee on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is the third in...
L'Idea del Bello (Beauty as an idea); Le Jardine 2000; La Beauté; Enclosed and Enchanted;...
Bill Viola is included in the National Gallery's exhibition 'Encounters', which was sponsored by Mor...
Encounters: A dialogue with art from the past
The creative process evolves from personal experience, formal education, a dialogue with art from th...
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2000
Given the characteristic hubris of Tate Modern over the river, it is interesting and also reassuring...
Ken Done - Opera house and bridge
Ken Done – To Sydneysiders and visitors alike the man-made structures of the Harbour Bridge and th...
The view from his studio of Chinaman's Beach long sustained Ken Done's artistic inquiry throughout t...
Ken Done – The Cabin studio at Mosman, overlooking Chinaman's Beach on Middle Harbour, was acquire...
Ken Done's earliest recollections of Sydney Harbour were as a young child during the war. In the ear...